Peter Thiel, a famous Silicon Valley investor, told the journalist from the Wall Street Journal that the company can be divided into happy companies and unhappy companies.Peter Thiel has invested in some well-known technology companies, including SpaceX,Yelp, Quora, Spotify and so on.

Happy companies have a sense of mission,thus they tend to find something special, which gives them a mission and monopoly in some ways, "They don't have to compete, so they can set higher prices for their products; Unhappy companies could not avoid mediocrity. In Peter Thiel's perspective, as for the entrepreneurs and startups, their goal should always be monopoly within the industry, for the reason that there are only two companies in this world: monopoly companies and non profitable companies. Peter Thiel said, now monopoly companies do pretend that they don’t monopolize industries,because they want to avoid interference and the management from the government; however those companies that can’t monopolize the industry will pretend to be special, seemingly reaching the goal of industry monopoly, in order to attract investors and customers.

Peter Thiel also wrote in his best-selling book From 0 To 1 that he had to establish a viewpoint of monopoly in the company.

快乐的公司和不快乐的公司

硅谷著名投资人彼得·蒂尔（Peter Thiel）接受《华尔街日报》采访时说，公司分为快乐的公司和不快乐的公司。彼得·蒂尔曾经投资过SpaceX、Yelp、Quora、Spotify等著名科技公司。

快乐的公司有使命感，它们往往会找到一些特别的东西，这给它带来使命和某种形式上的垄断，“它们不需要竞争，所以可以给自己的产品设置更高的价格”；不快乐的公司则无法逃脱平庸，在彼得·蒂尔看来，“对于创业者和创业公司来说，目标永远应该是做到行业内的垄断，因为这个世界上只有两种公司：行业垄断的公司和无收益的公司。”彼得·蒂尔说，如今做到垄断的公司都假装他们没有垄断行业，因为他们想躲避政府的干涉和管理；而没有做到垄断的公司会假装自己很特别，貌似做到了行业垄断，以此来吸引投资者与顾客。

彼得·蒂尔也在畅销书《从0到1》中阐述过自己对公司必须建立垄断地位的观点。