Occupation: Entrepreneur Birth: October 11, 1967
As you craft a plan to expand to adjacent markets, don't disrupt: Avoid competition as much as possible..
Every time we create something new we go from zero to one..
There are many more secrets in the world that are waiting to be found. The question of how many secrets exist in our world is roughly equivalent to h….
My own answer to the contrarian question is that most people think the future of the world will be defined by globalization, but the truth is that te….
In our time, the great task for libertarians is to find an escape from politics in all its forms—from the totalitarian and fundamentalist catastrophe….
If you focus on near-term growth above all else, you miss the most important question you should be asking: will this business still be around a deca….
A startup is the largest endeavor over which you can have definite mastery. You can have agency not just over your own life, but over a small and imp….
There's been a lot companies that have shown "zero to one" kind of growth in the computer, internet software age. Facebook and Google are zero to one….
In the developed world, technological progress means that you can have a situation where there's growth, where there's a way in which everybody can b….
I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible..
American government is not dominated by engineers, it is dominated by lawyers. Engineers are interested in substance and building things; lawyers are….
I believe we are in a world where innovation in stuff was outlawed. It was basically outlawed in the last 40 years - part of it was environmentalism,….
I think anything that requires real global breakthroughs requires a degree of intensity and sustained effort that cannot be done part time, so it's s….
In the U.S., we fundamentally need to do new things, which I think is harder for the government to do. And moreover, it is not something our governme….
Everybody has a product to sell—no matter whether you’re an employee, a founder, or an investor. It’s true even if your company consists of just you ….
What important truth do very few people agree with you on?.
First, only invest in companies that have the potential to return the value of the entire fund..
If people were super-optimistic about technology there would be no reason to be pessimistic about the future..
Twitter is hard to evaluate. They have a lot of potential. It's a horribly mismanaged company — probably a lot of pot-smoking going on there. But it'….
A true bubble is when something is overvalued and intensely believed. Education may be the only thing people still believe in in the United States. T….
But the indeterminate future is somehow one in which probability and statistics are the dominant modality for making sense of the world. Bell curves ….