{"id":65473,"date":"2022-05-10T17:27:14","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T21:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=65473"},"modified":"2022-05-15T10:50:52","modified_gmt":"2022-05-15T14:50:52","slug":"is-competition-good-for-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/is-competition-good-for-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Competition Good for Business? Peter Thiel Says No"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Is competition good for business? Is there such a thing as &#8220;healthy competition&#8221;?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Entrepreneur Peter Thiel believes that the idea of healthy competition is a myth. But it\u2019s a myth that is so deeply ingrained in our society that it tends to exercise a destructive influence on our business strategies. As such, Thiel spends a chapter in his book <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/zero-to-one\/\">Zero to One<\/a><\/em> exposing and debunking the myth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keep reading for Peter Thiel&#8217;s take on why competition is bad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-competition-in-business\">Competition in Business<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Is competition good for business? Thiel says no. He explains that the school system instills the importance of competition in students from an early age by forcing students to compete for grades. Schools also tend to teach a uniform curriculum, rather than catering to individual students\u2019 strengths and interests. This parallels the model of perfect competition by minimizing the differentiation between products\u2014in this case, the \u201cproduct\u201d is a student\u2019s work.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Similarly, workers must compete for raises and promotions by conforming to companies\u2019 performance expectations. The perception of conflict is so pervasive that war metaphors in business are commonplace: Companies talk about their labor <em>force<\/em>, their marketing <em>campaigns<\/em>, and their <em>target<\/em> customers. 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He points out that the rivalry between these two companies made little business sense, because their core competencies were completely different: Microsoft specialized in operating systems, Google in search engines. Yet because they saw each other as rivals, they started introducing products just to compete with each other: Microsoft built a search engine (Bing) and Google built an operating system (Chrome). Thiel notes that while Microsoft and Google were locked in head-to-head competition, Apple surpassed <em>both <\/em>of them in value, depriving them both of the prestige they were competing for. He attributes this turn of events to their obsession over competing with each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-models-of-war-and-business\">Models of War and Business<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Given the example of businesses\u2019 competitive behavior, Thiel conjectures that seeking conflict is part of human nature. But why?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thiel thinks it has to do with excessive similarity. Microsoft and Google were ideologically similar tech companies that both rose to prominence. Their products were different enough that they didn\u2019t need to compete for market share, but they tried to compete for prestige\u2014they both wanted to be <em>the<\/em> undisputed tech giant.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Again making reference to Shakespeare, Thiel discusses how the Montagues and Capulets were \u201calike in dignity\u201d\u2014they fought each other simply because they were equals with equal claim on the status and prestige that they both wanted to hold exclusively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thiel contrasts this with Karl Marx\u2019s idea that people fight because their goals are incompatible. Marx believed people of different classes had different ideas about how society\u2019s resources should be allocated, and that this was the source of conflict between them.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Thiel\u2019s view, Marx was wrong: <strong>People fight only when they are similar enough to want the same things, and want them enough to fight over them<\/strong>. Therefore, the solution to conflict is innovation. It\u2019s better to create something new than fight over what already exists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is competition good for business? Is there such a thing as &#8220;healthy competition&#8221;? Entrepreneur Peter Thiel believes that the idea of healthy competition is a myth. But it\u2019s a myth that is so deeply ingrained in our society that it tends to exercise a destructive influence on our business strategies. As such, Thiel spends a chapter in his book Zero to One exposing and debunking the myth. 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