It also vastly depends on your goals. Thiel's advice is great if you are setting out to create the next Palantir, Facebook or Paypal. If you're looking to boot

It also vastly depends on your goals. Thiel's advice is great if you are setting out to create the next Palantir, Facebook or Paypal. If you're looking to bootstrap a passive-income business as a solo developer, it's not as useful. In fact I'd flip his advice on his head and instead of "Build a Platform" say "Build a successful and revenue positive business off someone else's platform with the aim of being acquired by it some day."