Re:Ask HN: A competitor just launched and I am at 60%. Quits?
by Jugurtha on Friday July 21, 2017 @07:45PM
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May I recommend Peter Thiel's book, "Zero to One"?
In the book, he describes how one of their engineers, exasperated by their competitor, X.com, matching them feature for feature, designed a bomb to blow it up. It probably would have been more shocking were it not for the fact that four out of the six key people at the company had designed bombs in high-school. He didn't go through with it and, instead of an explosion, the companies fused.
This is just an anecdote; Thiel has incredible insights and the eloquence to make them useful.
In the book, he describes how one of their engineers, exasperated by their competitor, X.com, matching them feature for feature, designed a bomb to blow it up. It probably would have been more shocking were it not for the fact that four out of the six key people at the company had designed bombs in high-school. He didn't go through with it and, instead of an explosion, the companies fused.
This is just an anecdote; Thiel has incredible insights and the eloquence to make them useful.