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Zero to One:
…even venture capitalists struggle to understand: we don’t live in a normal world; we live under a power law.
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83 |
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Zero to One:
…the 80-20 rule… surrounds us everywhere in the natural and social world.
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83 |
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Zero to One:
The biggest secret in venture capital is that the best investment in a successful fund equals or outperforms the entire rest of the fund combined.
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86 |
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Zero to One:
VCs must find the handful of companies that will successfully go from 0 to 1 and then back them with every resource.
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86 |
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Zero to One:
…once you think that you’re playing the lottery, you’ve already psychologically prepared yourself to lose.
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87 |
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Zero to One:
…the dozen largest tech companies were all venture-backed.
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90 |
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Zero to One:
…you cannot run dozens of companies at the same time and then hope that one of them works out well.
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90 |
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Zero to One:
You should focus relentlessly on something you’re good at doing, but before that you must think hard about whether it will be valuable in the future.
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91 |
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Zero to One:
Contrarian thinking doesn’t make any sense unless the world still has secrets left to give up.
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94 |
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Zero to One:
If there are many secrets left in the world, there are probably many world-changing companies yet to be started.
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94 |
