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Horizontal progress expands on existing ideas and works through globalization, spreading known innovations to a larger audience.

Peter Thiel explains that the future is defined by two kinds of progress: horizontal and vertical. Thiel also recalls that in their very first conversation, one of his co-founders, Luke, mentioned signing up to be frozen at death in hope of future medical resurrection. Four of them had been born outside of the US, and three had escaped from communist countries. For starters, they were young, five of them only 23 at PayPal’s launch. The founding team’s uniqueness extended well past eccentric leisure activities, too. Of the six founders, four had dabbled in the decidedly fringe hobby of bomb-building. The latter method never really got off the ground, but such an explosive solution wasn’t the PayPal group’s first brush with explosives. For some of the early PayPal employees, assuring they’d come out on top meant hundred-hour work weeks for others it meant building a bomb, presumably for use on their adversary’s Palo Alto HQ. The worst part wasn’t the rivalry, but that x.com had practically copied PayPal’s product.

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