Have we as a culture become expert at globalizing industries, but are we failing when it comes to truly world-changing technological breakthroughs? Is competition bad for business?  Should you bother with creating the “nth” social network (the answer is no)? Chris Dixon and Blake Masters dig into these themes, plus “power laws” and the importance of secrets from Peter Thiel's new book with Masters, “Zero to One.”  Dixon tries to pry a secret from Masters, but they aren’t called “secrets” for nothing.

a16z Podcast: Secrets, Power Laws, and Technology – The Ideas of  “Zero to One”

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