The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses · chapter 8 · id the-lean-startup-c8-03-peter-thiels-conviction-driven

“Peter Thiel's conviction-driven approach ('Zero to One') is fundamentally incompatible with lean startup methodology, suggesting the two philosophies serve different types of ventures.”

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Lean is a methodology, not a goal. Making small changes to things that already exist might lead you to a local maximum, but it won't help you find the global maximum.

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