Zero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future Paperback / softback - 2015
by Blake Masters
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- Title Zero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future
- Author Blake Masters
- Binding Paperback
- Edition BOX TOY
- Condition New
- Pages 224
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Virgin Books
- Publication date 2015
- Bookseller's Inventory # B9780753555200
- ISBN 9780753555200 / 0753555204
- Category Business / Economics / Finance
- Quantity available 10
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Reader reviews for Zero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future
Review summary
Readers were sharply divided. Many praised the book’s crisp, contrarian lens on startups—its emphasis on monopoly-building, starting with a tiny niche, the power law, sales/distribution, and a bias for 10x innovations—calling it clear, quotable, and useful for founders and investors. Others found it shallow or self-serving, accusing it of straw?man arguments, survivorship bias, and a narrow, Silicon Valley bubble view, with uneven leaps from practical advice to grand philosophy. The prose is fast and accessible, though some detected a lecture?notes feel and lack of depth. Consensus: a provocative, quick read with memorable frameworks—valuable if not treated as gospel.
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