Pensé que las relaciones estrechas contribuirían no sólo a hacernos más felices y mejores en el trabajo, sino también más exitosos en nuestras carrer… - Peter Thiel

You should never assume that people will admire your company without a public relations strategy

This was a huge red flag, because real technologists wear T-shirts and jeans. So we instituted a blanket rule: pass on any company whose founders dressed up for pitch meetings. Maybe we still would have avoided these bad investments if we had taken the time to evaluate each company’s technology in detail. But the team insight — never invest in a tech CEO that wears a suit — got us to the truth a lot faster. The best sales is hidden. There’s nothing wrong with a CEO who can sell, but if he actually looks like a salesman, he’s probably bad at sales and worse at tech.

Today a grand plan coming from a schoolteacher would be dismissed as crankery, and a long-range vision coming from anyone more powerful would be derided as hubris.