Zero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future

Name: Zero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future
Rating: 4.29632043838501 (1549 reviews)

Blake Masters · Peter Thiel

Sep 2014 · Random House

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WHAT VALUABLE COMPANY IS NOBODY BUILDING?

The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. If you are copying these guys, you aren’t learning from them. It’s easier to copy a model than to make something new: doing what we already know how to do takes the world from 1 to n, adding more of something familiar. Every new creation goes from 0 to 1. This book is about how to get there.

‘Peter Thiel has built multiple breakthrough companies, and Zero to One shows how.’
ELON MUSK, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla

‘This book delivers completely new and refreshing ideas on how to create value in the world.’
MARK ZUCKERBERG, CEO of Facebook

‘When a risk taker writes a book, read it. In the case of Peter Thiel, read it twice. Or, to be safe, three times. This is a classic.’
NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB, author of The Black Swan

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4.3

1.55K reviews

Krishna P G

March 10, 2023

Excellent book. Makes you see the future without even going into the unknown. If your ambitions are to launch a company of your own, this book discusses your prospects like a virtual lawyer. I had bought this book for a huge discount. Now I feel I owe too much to the author. Go for this book. You won't regret it

Harshan Vallabh

October 19, 2016

Peter Thiel's ideas are simply just different. His whole concept of economic theory is different to what we learn in school and it's practical experience being at the heart of the technology revolution. Reading this book gives one insight as to which problems to solve in future. Like he said, there's a need to go from 0 to 1 and not from 1 to n. Lots of people can do the latter.

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Wasi Ahmed

January 9, 2023

I have deleted my YouTube, social media apps and music apps to solely focus on my upgrading after listening to this book I will now listen to this book once 6 months. It challenges the most tuff questions to the reality, of today's world don't have an appropriate answer.

About the author

Peter Thiel is a technology entrepreneur and investor best known for co-founding PayPal. Since then he has co-founded the data analytics firm Palantir Technologies, made the first outside investment in Facebook, provided early funding for companies like SpaceX, LinkedIn, Yelp, and Spotify, and established and funds the Thiel Foundation, which nurtures tomorrow’s tech visionaries. He has appeared on 60 Minutes, CNBC, CBS Sunday Morning, Bloomberg News and been featured in the New Yorker, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Fortune, The Atlantic, USA Today, BusinessWeek, and more.

Blake Masters was a student at Stanford Law School in 2012 when his detailed notes on Peter’s class “Computer Science 183: Startup” became an internet sensation. He is President of The Thiel Foundation and Chief Operating Officer of Thiel Capital.

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