Peter Thiel

Founder of Palantir Technologies

1967 — Present

Palantir Technologies

The Contrarian Founder. Co-founder of PayPal and Palantir. Master strategist of zero-to-one thinking, competitive advantage, and technological monopoly.

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“All happy companies are different: each one earns a monopoly by solving a unique problem. All failed companies are the same: they failed to escape competition.”

“Every moment in business happens only once. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. And the next Mark Zuckerberg won’t create a social network. If you are copying these guys, you aren’t learning from them.”

“The best entrepreneurs know this: every great business is built around a secret that’s hidden from the outside.”

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