Monopoly Question Framework
from Zero to One by Peter Thiel & Blake Masters
"Build something new that can dominate"
THE PROBLEM IT SOLVES
You’re building in a crowded space where competition erodes margins and differentiation is fuzzy. You need to find (or create) a path to a defensible monopoly—something meaningfully different, not a better clone.
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