From Peter Thiel's CS183 class notes: "People say it all the time: this product is so good that it sells itself. This is almost never true. These people are ly

From Peter Thiel's CS183 class notes: "People say it all the time: this product is so good that it sells itself. This is almost never true. These people are lying, either to themselves, to others, or both. But why do they lie? The straightforward answer is that they are trying to convince other people that their product is, in fact, good. They do not want to say “our product is so bad that it takes the best salespeople in the world to convince people to buy it.” So one should always evaluate such claims carefully. Is it an empirical fact that product x sells itself? Or is that a sales pitch?" http://blakemasters.com/post/22405055017/peter-thiels-cs183-startup-class-9-notes-essay http://blakemasters.com/post/22405055017/peter-thiels-cs183-...