This is Peter Thiel.
Co-Founder of Paypal and one of the most unique thinkers of our time.
He recently went on The Joe Rogan Experience and shared some mind-blowing theories and ideas.
Here are 9 key takeaways:
(No. 7 is fascinating)
Every SaaS company eventually needs to go "up market" (attract bigger LTV clients) but this feels like foreign territory for the average indiehacker like me. What are some good resources on how to approach this? Or is it simply: hire an experienced sales person?
Enough courage to get started + enough sense to focus on something you’re naturally suited for + enough persistence to stay in the game long enough to catch a few lucky breaks + a lot of hard work. There’s your recipe.
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Happy Thanksgiving ❤️
⏰ The giveaway ends…
Next few book clubs:
- Architecture of Open Source Applications (vol 1 & 2)
- Understanding Software Dynamics
- Systems Performance
- The Garbage Collection Handbook
- Building Secure & Reliable Systems
- High Performance Browser Networking
- Hacker's Delight?
Should be fun.
Not that many systems handle 6B QPS. 😀
"Bigtable has been in continuous production use at Google for more than 15 years now, processing over 6 billion requests per second at peak and with over 10 exabytes of data under management. "
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I've been diving into the SQLite read path and on-disk format recently. @benbjohnson's blog post (fly.io/blog/sqlite-in…) is great starting point, but it doesn't cover some topics that are important to understand what happens when you read from SQLite database file.
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