Notes Essays—Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup—Stanford, Spring 2012

Here are my essay versions of my class notes from CS183: Startup. Errors and omissions are my own. Credit for good stuff is Peter’s.


Class 1: The Challenge of the Future


Class 2: Party Like it’s 1999?


Class 3: Value Systems


Class 4: The Last Mover Advantage


Class 5: The Mechanics of Mafia


Class 6: Thiel’s Law


Class 7: Follow The Money


Class 8: The Pitch


Class 9: If You Build It, Will They Come?


Class 10: After Web 2.0


Class 11: Secrets


Class 12: War and Peace


Class 13: You Are Not A Lottery Ticket


Class 14: Seeing Green


Class 15: Back to the Future


Class 16: Decoding Ourselves


Class 17: Deep Thought


Class 18: Founder as Victim, Founder as God


Class 19: Stagnation or Singularity?