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.
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Peter Thiel
Born in 1967 in Frankfurt, Germany, Peter Thiel is a PayPal co-founder and Facebook's first outside investor. Through Palantir and Founders Fund he redrew the investment map of Silicon Valley, and in his book Zero to One he systematized the contrarian philosophy of 'avoid competition, pursue monopoly.' He stands at the intersection of technology and politics.
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