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Peter Thiel

Hey Peter, in one of your interviews you saied: Paypal is a combination of payment/money transaction + email. Give your brutal take on getsven.com - is it a combination of any 2 things?

Most combinations are failures masquerading as innovation - the question isn't whether it combines two things, but whether it creates something that doesn't exist yet and would be hard to replicate.

I'll be direct: I can't see getsven.com from here, so I can't give you a specific evaluation. But that's almost irrelevant, because the framework you're using is wrong. Here's the brutal truth about combinations: most are worthless. PayPal...

earlier this year Thought for: 1m 18s