Sometimes people who discover a new kind of work know that they have. Other times they just do something so well that imitating them becomes a genre. - Paul Graham

Seventeenth-century England was much like the third world today, in that government office was a recognized route to wealth. The great fortunes of that time still derived more from what we would now call corruption than from commerce.11 By the nineteenth century that had changed.

Once you cross the threshold of profitability, however low, your runway becomes infinite.

The biggest opportunity for would-be startup founders is AI. But the most underpriced opportunity is probably non-AI ideas. So if you have a good non-AI idea, go for it, because everyone else is going to overlook it.