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"most people hate being active and just want to look sexually attractive" -- Please share your research.

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"Successful startups are ones which have managed to survive exponentially growing by several orders of magnitude in relatively short time." -- Unclear whether you're defining "startup" or "successful startup". "Real startups don't go from zero-to-one" -- So we're talking about "real" vs "fake" startups?

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"They build one thing that is new and useful to many, many people. This inherently involves lots of copying." -- Who says that, Thiel or Hollands? Unclear what it means. You mean the startup has to "copy" it's own product each time they manufacture a new one? Is that what Thiel means by "copying"?

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Sep 15, 2022·edited Sep 15, 2022

"Unique, idiosyncratic solutions to small problems create a lot of individual value, but cannot scale." -- So, a company with a small but viable niche market isn't a startup? Or is a loser? Is that what Thiel says? Or Hollands? Forbes lists the "Best Small Companies". Are they losers? Or, not startups?

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