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On Category Creation, Languaging, and Why Competition is for Losers

Friday 5: Five Weekly Lessons from Bestselling Books, Essays, and Lectures

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The Importance of Avoiding Competition

In Peter Thiel's view, there's really just two types of businesses, perfectly competitive ones and monopolies. Here's what he had to say in Sam Altman's famous Stanford CS 183B, how to start a startup class. In Peter Thiel's views, monopolies aren't bad. They're ideal. And we'll talk about this a little bit later in the newsletter.

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