Pese a las historias de primerizos chefs de cocina convertidos en millonarios, la gente encuentra las participaciones poco atractivas. No son líquida… - Peter Thiel

tecnología propia, efectos de red, economías de escala, y una marca.

Startups operate on the principle that you need to work with other people to get stuff done, but you also need to stay small enough so that you actually can.

Just as the legal attack on Microsoft was ending Bill Gates's dominance, Steve Jobs's return to Apple demonstrated the irreplaceable value of a company's founder. In some ways, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were opposites. Jobs was an artist, preferred closed systems, and spent his time thinking about great products above all else; Gates was a businessman, kept his products open, and wanted to run the world. But both were insider/outsiders, and both pushed the companies they started to achievements that nobody else would have been able to match.