no company has a culture; every company is a culture. - Peter Thiel

By indirect proof, the New Economy of the internet was the only way forward. MANIA: SEPTEMBER 1998–MARCH 2000 Dot-com mania was intense but short — 18 months of insanity from September 1998 to March 2000.

This leads to a second, less obvious understanding of the founding: it lasts as long as a company is creating new things, and it ends when creation stops. If you get the founding moment right, you can do more than create a valuable company: you can steer its distant future toward the creation of new things instead of the stewardship of inherited success. You might even extend its founding indefinitely.

As computers become more and more powerful, they won’t be substitutes for humans: they’ll be complements.