Peter Thiel

El tiempo y la toma de decisiones siguen por sí solos una ley potencial, y algunos momentos importan mucho más que otros;

Today’s “best practices” lead to dead ends; the best paths are new and untried.

Bajo la competencia perfecta, en el largo plazo, ninguna compañía percibe beneficio económico.

Si se les deja al margen, estarán predispuestos a reclamar valor en el corto plazo en lugar de ayudarte a crear más en el futuro.

Watson, Deep Blue, and ever-better machine learning algorithms are cool. But the most valuable companies in the future won’t ask what problems can be solved with computers alone. Instead, they’ll ask: how can computers help humans solve hard problems?

Of the six people who started PayPal, four had built bombs in high school.

las doce compañías tecnológicas más grandes de la actualidad estuvieron en su momento generosamente respaldadas por fondos de capital riesgo. Juntas, esas doce compañías valen más de 2 billones de dólares, más que todo el resto de las compañías tecnológicas juntas.

Computers already have enough power to outperform people in activities we used to think of as distinctively human. In 1997, IBM’s Deep Blue defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov. Jeopardy!’s best-ever contestant, Ken Jennings, succumbed to IBM’s Watson in 2011. And Google’s self-driving cars are already on California roads today. Dale Earnhardt Jr. needn’t feel threatened by them, but the Guardian worries (on behalf of the millions of chauffeurs and cabbies in the world) that self-driving cars “could drive the next wave of unemployment.

the more people believe in efficiency, the bigger the bubbles get.)

3. Economías de escala

take unorthodox ideas seriously today, and the mainstream sees that as a sign of progress. We can be glad that there are fewer crazy cults now, yet that gain has come at great cost: we have given up our sense of wonder at secrets left to be discovered.

Los negocios con modelos de ventas complejas triunfan si consiguen año tras año un crecimiento del 50 al 100 por ciento en el transcurso de una década.

The most successful companies make the core progression — to first dominate a specific niche and then scale to adjacent markets — a part of their founding narrative.

Monopolists, by contrast, disguise their monopoly by framing their market as the union of several large markets:

Today, we exaggerate the differences between left-liberal egalitarianism and libertarian individualism because almost everyone shares their common indefinite attitude. In philosophy, politics, and business, too, arguing over process has become a way to endlessly defer making concrete plans for a better future.