The greatest thing Jobs designed was his business. Apple imagined and executed definite multi-year plans to create new products and distribute them e… - Peter Thiel

since he started Apple in 1976, Jobs saw that you can change the world through careful planning, not by listening to focus group feedback

Forget “minimum viable products” — ever since he started Apple in 1976, Jobs saw that you can change the world through careful planning, not by listening to focus group feedback or copying others’ successes.

But the most important lesson to learn from Jobs has nothing to do with aesthetics. The greatest thing Jobs designed was his business. Apple imagined and executed definite multi-year plans to create new products and distribute them effectively.

In philosophy, politics, and business, too, arguing over process has become a way to endlessly defer making concrete plans for a better future.

Monopolists can afford to think about things other than making money; non-monopolists can’t.

VCs must find the handful of companies that will successfully go from 0 to 1 and then back them with every resource.