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 decade from now?
Peter ThielSecrets are hard but solvable problems and we should talk about them. It's hard to work toward a radically better future if you don't believe in secrets.
Peter ThielAmerican government is not dominated by engineers, it is dominated by lawyers. Engineers are interested in substance and building things; lawyers are interested in process and rights and getting the ideology correctly blended. And so there is sort of no really concrete plan for the future.
Peter ThielIf you think about basic science or coming up with new theories of mathematics, these are not the kinds of things which are necessarily a well-defined market to pay people.
Peter Thiel