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: 4.301729679107666 (1561 reviews)

Blake Masters · Peter Thiel

Sep 2014 · Random House

4.3

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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

1.56K reviews

Amit Tiwari

August 31, 2017

I have purchased a book zero to one this morning money was deducted from my account but book is still not available to me in library, when it will be visible, the book seems to be important for me & under a offer,

54 people found this review helpful

Raj Poladia

March 4, 2017

One of the beautiful things I learned from it is, build a team requires person with good skill set but at the same time the relationship with the person is also equally valued. Absence of even one factor might turn into disaster.

118 people found this review helpful

Najiya Anil

March 29, 2020

It's best book that I read ever, but this book contains extra topics and explain in detail. So this make books hard to understand, this is my point of view. Thank you 😊

84 people found this review helpful

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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