Bob Moore, Who Founded Bob's Red Mill, Is Dead at 94

Re:Bob Moore, Who Founded Bob's Red Mill, Is Dead at 94 by legitster on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @02:58PM (#39374456)

Regardless of how you feel about Peter Thiel, everyone should read Zero to One. He eloquently ties together the concepts of entrepreneurialism and contrarianism

Real entrepreneurs only go into business because they believe they know something that otherwise efficient markets do not. So that means you have to be a contrarian and believe in secrets or undiscovered principles.

Some of the more interesting data points he includes is the decline in cult membership and belief in secrets. We as a society are generating less iconoclasts, so all that's left in business is an efficiency puzzle.

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Re:Bob Moore, Who Founded Bob's Red Mill, Is Dead at 94 by hindsightbias on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @03:41PM (#39375032)

Cults and conspiracy thinking just went mainstream.

Back in the day, conspiracies were kind of unique and interesting and you could talk to a believer about it for hours about all the details and complications. People put a lot of thinking into it.

Today, conspiracies are like everything else - as shallow as the first page of google search.

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Re:Bob Moore, Who Founded Bob's Red Mill, Is Dead at 94 by ponector on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @03:38PM (#39374989)

Sounds like someone who want to rationalize being a billionaire.

Another funny thing is to learn about "principles" of Ray Dalio. Man has a cult but tries to proof otherwise.

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Re:Bob Moore, Who Founded Bob's Red Mill, Is Dead at 94 by wolverine876 on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @03:44PM (#39375072)

> the decline in cult membership

Was that written before QAnon, etc.?

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