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I think it's Anna Karenina where it's: all happy families are alike and all unhappy families are unhappy. In their own special way I think something like the opposite is true of companies: all great companies are special in a good way and then all failed companies somehow generic and and failed.
— Peter Thiel
2021-10-28 on youtube.com
Tolstoy opens Anna Karenina by observing: "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." Business is the opposite. All happy companies are different: each one earns a monopoly by solving a unique problem. All failed companies are the same: they failed to escape competition.
— Peter Thiel
2014-09-16 in Zero to One