Zero To One By Peter Thiel

Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future is a book for building a new business like startup or improve existing business written by the American entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel co-written with Blake Masters, published in 2014.

In this book, Author 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. You can download from below and buy from amazon if you want.

About Zero To One Authors

Peter Thiel is an entrepreneur and investor. He launched PayPal in 1998, led it as CEO, and made it public in 2002, defining a new era of fast and secure online commerce. In 2004 he made his first external investment in Facebook, where he was director. In the same year he founded Palantir Technologies, a software company that uses computers to train human analysts in areas such as national security and global finance. He has provided seed money to LinkedIn, Yelp, and dozens of successful tech startups, many run by former colleagues who have been dubbed the “PayPal mafia.” He is a partner of the Founders Fund, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm that has funded companies such as SpaceX and Airbnb. She launched the Thiel Scholarship, which sparked a national debate by encouraging young people to put their education before school, and led the Thiel Foundation, which works to promote technological advancement and long-term reflection on the future.

Blake Masters was a Stanford Law School student in 2012, when his detailed notes on Peter’s “Computer Science 183: Getting Started” course caused a stir on the Internet. He is President of the Thiel Foundation and CEO of Thiel Capital.

Zero to one by peter thiel Summary

Zero To One is an in-depth look at Peter Thiel’s philosophy and strategy for making your startup successful by looking at the lessons he learned from founding and selling PayPal, investing into Facebook and become a billionaire in the process.

Zero to one by peter thiel Review

“A great founder can get the best work out of everyone in their company.”

Great books on business development and entrepreneurship often have one thing in common: they require slow and patient reading to give the reader enough time to assimilate the principles. But in Zero to One, things are different. . You can read everything very quickly in a few hours and still keep most of the content.

“Monopoly is the condition of any successful business”.

Combining the author’s personal experience and belief systems, this book offers compelling analyzes on a variety of topics. For me, this is the first time a startup has been judged using these seemingly incompatible metrics: exclusivity, creativity, passion, sales, innovation (rather than repetitions) ), founder characteristics, etc. “It’s better to win than to lose, but everyone loses when war isn’t worth fighting.”

Given how fast this book is read, it’s easy to recommend the book to anyone interested in starting a business, as you’re sure to share the author’s unique insight into the world business world.

“A good startup should have the potential for scale to be built into its first business.”