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Thiel: Startup founders should always aim to build a monopoly
“If you're an entrepreneur or founder, you always want to build a monopoly.”
Thiel: Easy success or early failure teaches founders the wrong lessons
“Most of the time people are either in companies that fail, and then the lesson you learn is that it's impossible to build a great company, and so the next time around you try for something that's less ambitious, and so And then you certainly will not build a g…”
Thiel: Workplace conflict arises when people compete to do the exact same job
“Conflict happens when different people want to do the same thing. And one of the challenges in, it's not when people want different things, it's when people want the same thing. And in a, and so the challenge you have as a boss is to try to have people do diff…”
Thiel: Replacing founder CEOs with professional managers halts company innovation
“As long as the founders run the companies there's normally enough pressure to keep doing things. Once the founders are replaced with politicians who act like CEOs you end up with you know, much less incremental stuff happening.”
Thiel: Opening a restaurant is a paradigm example of a bad business idea
“Opening a restaurant is my, sort of the paradigm example of an intensely competitive and really bad business idea.”
Thiel: Tesla and SpaceX's real breakthrough was complex system coordination
“Both Tesla and SpaceX were stories that involved complex coordination, where you needed to get a lot of different pieces to fit together in just the right way. And so if you ask, you know, what was the real breakthrough with Tesla, or the real breakthrough wit…”