startup is the largest endeavor over which you can have definite mastery. You can have agency not just over your own life, but over a small and impor… - Peter Thiel

You can have agency not just over your own life, but over a small and important part of the world. It begins by rejecting the unjust tyranny of Chance.

A startup is the largest endeavour over which you can define mastery. You can have agency not just over your own life, but over a small and important part of the world.

This problem becomes even more acute over time as more people join the company. Early employees usually get the most equity because they take more risk, but some later employees might be even more crucial to a venture’s success. A secretary who joined eBay in 1996 might have made 200 times more than her industry-veteran boss who joined in 1999.

"Những kẻ không độc quyền thường nói dối ngược lại: "Chúng tôi đang trong cuộc chơi của chính mình".
Doanh nhân luôn bị định kiến là xem nhẹ quy mô sự cạnh tranh, nhưng đó chính là lỗi lớn nhất mà một doanh nghiệp khởi nghiệp mắc phải.
Sai lầm chết người là xem thị trường của bạn cực hẹp để bạn có thể thống trị nó."

Nutrition matters for everybody, but you can’t major in it at Harvard. Most top scientists go into other fields. Most of the big studies were done 30 or 40 years ago, and most are seriously flawed. The food pyramid that told us to eat low fat and enormous amounts of grains was probably more a product of lobbying by Big Food than real science; its chief impact has been to aggravate our obesity epidemic. There’s plenty more to learn: we know more about the physics of faraway stars than we know about human nutrition. It won’t be easy, but it’s not obviously impossible: exactly the kind of field that could yield secrets.