If you are a very talented person, you have a choice: you can go to Google or you can go to work on a startup. I'd encourage you to work on a startup. Even if you fail, you'll learn a lot more.
— Peter Thiel Contemporary

PayPal co-founder, investor

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Stanford University lecture, 'CS183: Startup'

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2012

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Controversial

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