This is a classic.’ NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB, author of The Black Swan. In the case of Peter Thiel, read it twice. ‘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. 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. If you are copying these guys, you aren’t learning from them. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. WHAT VALUABLE COMPANY IS NOBODY BUILDING? The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. 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. They will escape competition altogether, because their businesses will be unique. Tomorrow’s champions will not win by competing ruthlessly in today’s marketplace. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. But when you do something new, you go from 0 to 1.
Doing what someone else already knows how to do takes the world from 1 to n, adding more of something familiar. It comes from the most important skill that every leader must master: learning to think for yourself. Progress can be achieved in any industry or area of business. Information technology has improved rapidly, but there is no reason why progress should be limited to computers or Silicon Valley. 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.
In Zero to One, legendary entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel shows how we can find singular ways to create those new things. “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.
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