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Finally, the healthy version of the magician trope is **practice**: the responsibility to keep the collective strategy muscle engaged.

What Does It Mean to Be Strategic?

Dimitri Glazkov

VCs aren’t just investing in businesses; they’re buying into the stories they believe will shape the future. Knowing how to craft that narrative by stage can be a founder’s secret weapon.

What *Actually* Matters When Raising a Funding Round

Data-Driven VC

One young Stanford student, Blake Masters, wrote down what Thiel said and [later published](https://blakemasters.tumblr.com/post/24578683805/peter-thiels-cs183-startup-class-18-notes) his notes from the lecture: “A startup is basically structured as a monarchy. We don’t call it that, of course. That would seem weirdly outdated, and anything that’s not democracy makes people uncomfortable.”

The Far-Right Guru Who Has Befriended Silicon Valley’s Extreme Factions

Julia Black

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