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(To properly value a business, you also have to discount those future cash flows to their present worth, since a given amount of money today is worth more than the same amount in the future.)

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About Peter Thiel

Peter Andreas Thiel (born 11 October 1967) is a German-American billionaire entrepreneur, hedge fund manager, venture capitalist, philanthropist, political activist, and author. A co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies, and Founders Fund, he was the first outside investor in Facebook.

Biography information from Wikiquote · Portrait adapted from Wikimedia Commons, Gage Skidmore (CC BY-SA)

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Alternative Names: Peter Andreas Thiel Peter A. Thiel

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The best thing I did as a manager at PayPal was to make every person in the company responsible for doing just one thing. Every employee’s one thing was unique, and everyone knew I would evaluate him only on that one thing. I had started doing this just to simplify the task of managing people. But then I noticed a deeper result: defining roles reduced conflict. Most fights inside a company happen when colleagues compete for the same responsibilities. Startups face an especially high risk of this since job roles are fluid at the early stages. Eliminating competition makes it easier for everyone to build the kinds of long-term relationships that transcend mere professionalism.

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La ambigüedad entre las metas sociales y económicas no ayuda. Pero la ambigüedad en el mundo «social» es un problema mayor aun: si algo es «socialmente bueno» ¿es bueno para la sociedad o simplemente es visto como algo bueno por la sociedad? Cualquier cosa lo
suficientemente buena para recibir el aplauso de todas las audiencias sólo puede ser convencional, como la idea general de la energía verde.
El progreso no se detiene por la diferencia que pueda existir entre la avaricia corporativa y la bonhomía de las organizaciones sin ánimo de lucro; en cambio, nosotros sí estamos limitados por la similitud de ambos. Igual que las corporaciones tienden a copiarse unas a otras, las organizaciones suelen tener las mismas prioridades. La tecnología limpia pone de manifiesto el resultado: cientos de productos indiferenciados, creados todos en nombre de un objetivo demasiado amplio.
Hacer algo diferente es lo realmente bueno para la sociedad, y es también lo que permite que un negocio consiga beneficios a través de la monopolización de un mercado. Los mejores proyectos suelen pasarse por alto, no son pregonados a los cuatro vientos por la multitud; los mejores problemas sobre los que trabajar suelen ser aquellos que nadie más intenta resolver.

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