The secret formula for success: Born rich → Go to elite school → Get funded → Then talk about meritocracy.
If you don’t have capital, just skip to Chapter 68: Getting a Job at a Funded Startup Instead.
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The secret formula for success: Born rich → Go to elite school → Get funded → Then talk about meritocracy.
If you don’t have capital, just skip to Chapter 68: Getting a Job at a Funded Startup Instead.
Would you like me to refine this further?
- Thiel argues that you should build something new. Investors urge you to already be rich first.
- Venture capital as the gatekeeper of who gets to "innovate."
- Success isn’t about building the future—it’s about getting funded before you run out of hope.
- Thiel argues that you should build something new. Investors urge you to already be rich first.
- Venture capital as the gatekeeper of who gets to "innovate."
- Success isn’t about building the future—it’s about getting funded before you run out of hope.
- Thiel says avoid competition—but what if you’re competing for rent money?
- How the startup world praises disruption but resists actual economic mobility.
- Why investors fund "bold ideas"—as long as they come from Stanford grads.
- Thiel says avoid competition—but what if you’re competing for rent money?
- How the startup world praises disruption but resists actual economic mobility.
- Why investors fund "bold ideas"—as long as they come from Stanford grads.
- Thiel preaches monopolies, but first, you need money to monopolize anything.
- Network effects? More like nepotism effects—why some founders raise millions before writing a single line of code.
- Thiel preaches monopolies, but first, you need money to monopolize anything.
- Network effects? More like nepotism effects—why some founders raise millions before writing a single line of code.
- You have a great idea. Investors don't care.
- Bootstrapping? Sure, if you enjoy eating ramen for five years.
- The "lean startup" method: A euphemism for "work for free until you burn out."
- You have a great idea. Investors don't care.
- Bootstrapping? Sure, if you enjoy eating ramen for five years.
- The "lean startup" method: A euphemism for "work for free until you burn out."