I want to welcome everyone back to this reading of Peter Teal 0 to 1.

And I'm going to just jump right in.

We are on chapter 9 and we'll see if we can get into 10 today as well.

I didn't look forward in time it.

But let me get going here.

All right.

This is Chapter 9 Foundations.

Every great company is unique,

but there are a few things that every business must get right at the beginning. I stress this so often

the friends have teasingly nicknamed it Teals Law. A startup messed up at its

foundations cannot be fixed. Beginnings are special.

They are qualitatively different from all that comes afterward.

This was true 13.8 billion years ago,

I think that's 28 billion now, at the founding of our Cosmos.

In the earliest microseconds of its existence, the universe expanded by a factor of 10 to

the 30th, a million trillion trillion.

As cosmogenic or cosmogonic, I have no idea,

epox came and went in those first few moments, the very laws of physics were different from those we know today.

It was also true 227 years ago at the founding of our country.

Fundamental questions were open for debate by the frame. 7 years ago at the founding of our country.

Fundamental questions were open for debate by the framers during the few months

they spent together at the Constitutional Convention.

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