Peter Thiel on How to Build a Creative Monopoly
Summary
What I learned from reading Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters (for the 3rd or 4th time) https://amzn.to/4yhebFh *Made possible by:* Ramp:
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It's true that every great entrepreneur is first and foremost a designer. Anyone who's held an iPhone or a MacBook has felt the result of Steve Jobs obsession with visual and experential perfection. But the most important lesson to learn from Jobs has nothing to do with aesthetics. The greatest thing Jobs designed was his business. Apple imagined and executed definitive multi-year plans to create new products and distribute them effectively. Forget minimum viable products. Ever since he started Apple in 1976, Jobs saw that you can change the world through careful planning, not by listening to focus groups or copying other people's success. Long This is one of my favorite sentences in this entire section. Long-term planning is often undervalued by our indefinite shortterm world. When the fi…