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by Peter Thiel; Blake Masters

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "This book delivers completely new and refreshing ideas on how to create value in the world."--Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta

"Peter Thiel has built multiple breakthrough companies, and Zero to One shows how."--Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla

The great secret of our time is that there are still uncharted frontiers to explore and new inventions to create. In Zero to One, legendary entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel shows how we can find singular ways to create those new things.

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. Information technology has improved rapidly, but there is no reason why progress should be limited to computers or Silicon Valley. Progress can be achieved in any industry or area of business. 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 do takes the world from 1 to n, adding more of something familiar. But when you do something new, you go from 0 to 1. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won't make a search engine. Tomorrow's champions will not win by competing ruthlessly in today's marketplace. They will escape competition altogether, because their businesses will be unique.

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.

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  • Title Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
  • Author Peter Thiel; Blake Masters
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Crown Currency, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2014-09-16
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780804139298 / 0804139296
  • Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.9 in (21.34 x 13.97 x 2.29 cm)
  • Category Small Business/Entrepreneurship
  • Library of Congress subjects New business enterprises, Entrepreneurship
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2014006653
  • Dewey Decimal Code 658.11

Media reviews

"Zero To One will immediately become the first book any working or aspiring entrepreneur must read."
-- Marc Andreessen, co-creator of the world's first web browser, co-founder of Netscape, and venture capitalist at Andreessen Horowitz


"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

Citations

  • Booklist, 09/15/2014, Page 9
  • Kirkus Reviews, 09/01/2014, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 12/01/2015, Page 54
  • Publishers Weekly, 08/11/2014, Page 0

About the author

Peter Thiel is an entrepreneur and investor. He started PayPal in 1998, led it as CEO, and took it public in 2002, defining a new era of fast and secure online commerce. In 2004 he made the first outside investment in Facebook, where he serves as a director. The same year he launched Palantir Technologies, a software company that harnesses computers to empower human analysts in fields like national security and global finance. He has provided early funding for LinkedIn, Yelp, and dozens of successful technology startups, many run by former colleagues who have been dubbed the "PayPal Mafia." He is a partner at Founders Fund, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm that has funded companies like SpaceX and Airbnb. 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 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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