Peter Thiel on a common red flag he sees in startup pitches

There's a pattern recognition where if I see a presentation that says we have this great idea and we're going to make money in one of these five ways, A or B or C or D or E, we're not really sure which is going to work. We're going to sort of experiment with them, try to figure it out. That's always sort of alarming and not very inspiring. It's always much better if people say we're just going to make money doing A because it suggests you've actually thought it through, you think it's going to actually work. Whereas when you list A through E, that sounds like it's a super set. You have more things going on but the reality is that you often haven't really thought through them very carefully. I think whenever people come up with lists of options, lists of choices like this, it's often again a version of being lazy, not thinking really hard about what actually might work.