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

In 2004 he made the first outside investment in Facebook, where he serves as a director. Peter Thiel is an entrepreneur and investor. He started the Thiel Fellowship, which ignited a national debate by encouraging young people to put learning before schooling, and he leads the Thiel Foundation, which works to advance technological progress and long- term thinking about the future.Blake Masters was a student at Stanford

Read this book to get your first glimpse of how and why that is true."- Tyler Cowen, New York Times best-selling author of Average is Over and Professor of Economics at George Mason University"The first and last business book anyone needs to read; a one in a world of zeroes."- Neal Stephenson, New York Times best-selling author of Snow Crash, the Baroque Cycle, and Cryptonomicon"Forceful and pungent in its treatment of conventional orthodoxies—a solid starting point for rea

Progress can be achieved in any industry or area of business. In Zero to One, legendary entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel shows how we can find singular ways to create those new things. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. Information technology has improved rapidly, but there is no reason why progress should be limited to computers or Silicon Valley. Thiel begins with the contrarian premise that we live in an age of technological stagnation, even if we’re too distracted by shiny mobile devices to notice. But when you do something new, you go from 0 to 1. Zero to One presents at once an optimistic view of the future of progress in America and a new way of thinking about innovation: it starts by learning to ask the questions that lead you to find value in unexpected places.. It comes from the most important skill that every leader must master: learning to think for yourself.Doing what someone else already knows how to

David Landau said Practical, Smart, and Engaging. Zero to One is a refreshing intellectual deep dive into the motives behind entrepreneurship.It’s full of unique, practical insights, and discusses success in terms of human nature and culture. Along with business strategy, Thiel outlines how successful innovation shapes society and shares an intriguing vision.Bottom line: This book was worth my time and refined several core beliefs. It made me ask hard questions which, as an entrepreneur, I believe are critical if you want to be honest and prepared.I like the organized format which reads well linearly, b. A mix of brilliant, infuriating and self-indulgent A better title for this book would have been "Six ideas Peter Thiel wants to put out there" but that admittedly sounds less catchy than "Zero to One"Two of the ideas are HUGE and the rest are filler. The first infuriated me and the second inspired me. The remaining four ideas were not exactly news to me because I once founded and ran a startup. There's also a couple rants, one against biotechnology and one against green tech, which to my ears sounded tribal. After the ideas and the rants comes some rather embarrassing stuff that probably should not have made i. Most misleadlingly the book bills itself as a handbook on how to build the next great startup. Of course this is an impossible t Xandru The author is a master entrepreneur and investor but as a writer I think he falls flat. I found myself skimming through the book to get to the juicier bits and even so there was really nothing substantial beyond the summaries I had read in others' book reviews. Most misleadlingly the book bills itself as a handbook on how to build the next great startup. Of course this is an impossible thing to do - if it was possible for any book to do this, that book would be the most valuable in the world. So not surprisingly it falls flat on this count and simply gives lis