Spreading old ways to create wealth around the world will result in devastation, not riches. - Peter Thiel

A great company is a conspiracy to change the world;

If you can get just one distribution channel to work, you have a great business. If you try for several but don’t nail one, you’re finished.

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.