Zero to One
Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
by Peter Thiel & Blake Masters
Published By: Crown Currency, 2014
Genre: Nonfiction | Biography & Memoir, Business & Economics, Managment & Leadership
Page Count: 224 (Hardcover)
Audiobook Length: 4 hours and 51 minutes
Audiobook Narrator: Blake Masters
ISBN: 9780804139298
Publisher’s Description
A ground-breaking and thought-provoking book on innovation and what it takes for a new company to prosper, from the co-founder of one of the most successful tech start-ups in history
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
About the Author
Peter Thiel
Peter Thiel is a German-American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and author. He is the co-founder of PayPal, the co-founder and former CEO of Palantir Technologies, and the first outside investor in Facebook. He is also a partner at Founders Fund, a venture capital firm that has funded companies like SpaceX and Airbnb.
Thiel is a highly successful and respected entrepreneur and investor. He has a deep understanding of the technology industry and the startup world. He is also a thought leader on innovation and economic growth.
Blake Masters:
Blake Masters was a student at Stanford Law School in 2012 when his detailed notes on Peter Thiel’s class “Computer Science 183: Startup” became an internet sensation. Before writing Zero to One with Peter, Blake co-founded Judicata, a legal research technology startup, and worked at Box and Founders Fund. He went to Stanford and Stanford Law School and lives in San Francisco with his wife and baby boy.