“Every monopoly is unique, but they usually share some combination of the following characteristics: proprietary technology, network effects, economies of scale, and branding.”
― Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
― Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
“Most answers to the contrarian question are different ways of seeing the present; good answers are as close as we can come to looking into the future.”
― Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
― Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
“A new company’s most important strength is new thinking: even more important than nimbleness, small size affords space to think.”
― Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
― Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
“There’s no reason why the future should happen only at Stanford, or in college, or in Silicon Valley.”
― Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
― Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
“All Rhodes Scholars had a great future in their past.”
― Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
― Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
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