“... the phenomenon of serial entrepreneurship would seem to call into question our tendency to explain success as the product of chance.”

—  Peter Thiel, book Zero to One

Source: https://books.google.com/books?id=Owc2nQEACAAJ&pg=PA59 p. 59
Zero to One (2014)

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