Peter Thiel on Competition and Startup Monopolies
Y Combinator · Lecture · YouTube title: Competition is for Losers with Peter Thiel (How to Start a Startup 2014: 5)
Why it's here
HN recommends it as a serious, influential talk on market size and monopoly, though some commenters criticize its philosophy as endorsing anti-competitive goals.
What it covers
Peter Thiel's lecture from the How to Start a Startup course on business strategy and monopoly theory, arguing that competition destroys profits and that startups should aim to build monopolies. It covers the ideas of Zero to One.