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Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

Blake Masters , Peter Thiel
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Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

Blake Masters , Peter Thiel
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Overall rating: 4.28 / 5 from 25 reviews.

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Founder mentality 101

"Best introspection into the 'founder' mentality. Truly reshaped the way I approach intellectual property and team synergies."

— Kyle M. (5/5)

A Helpful Book for any Businessperson

"This is the quintessential book for a startup founder, but also an excellent book to read for general business awareness. Thiel's paradigms are often accurate, and even when they're not, they're an interesting and helpful way to see the world."

— Dennis (5/5)

Accurate

"Great read for any new or experience entrepreneurs"

— Ethan (5/5)

Read it

"A must read for all entrepreneurs at any age or stage."

— Facundo (5/5)

Really Well Laid Out

"Great book, made me rethink my priorities when it comes to my businesses. Expanded my vision."

— Ovett (5/5)

Must read before you launch your start up

"Great book. It helped me refine my startup before making available to the market"

— Michael (5/5)

For anyone with an entrepreneurial spirit

"A business and economics focused book looking at successes in the tech industry. Digestible for what it’s purpose was and one I’d recommend if you are debating whether to or not."

— Faiyaz (4/5)

Clear, concise, inspiring

"Essentially a clear and concise pamphlet on the power of startups. I appreciated the lack of filler, and was inspired to think up potential busineses. Ongoing digital economic disruptions, led by certain Silicon Valley celebrities, make this book relevant to our present."

— Korky P. (5/5)

A-Plus: instructive, definite, methodical.

"This is a very good book and is likely to benefit many people wishing to learn about what constitutes great startups. I found myself agreeing with Peter on most topics. I liked his analysis of nations in terms of optimism and pessimism, definitiveness and the lack of it, and the parallels for startups; of competitions and monopolies; etc. He talks about some popular notions, notably the pursuit of the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) by tech startups and puts it in perspective: well put! I also appreciated his emphasis on marketing and sales, which is definitely understated by some other authors who have written about startups recently. His views on what constitutes great founders are informing, but his analysis covers a very small group of some very prominent names, and I could neither agree nor disagree with those views in the general sense."

— Bilal (5/5)

Peter Thiel believes in Monopolies.

"Although I appreciate Peter Thiel for creating PayPal and for being a defender of Capitalism, he is also a PSUEDO free market guy. He wants monopolies and blocking of competition. To me, that's awfully strange and counter free market. Definitely recommend this one regardless."

— Jake (5/5)

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  • Published date: Sep 16, 2014
  • Language: English
  • No. of Pages: 224
  • Publisher: Crown
  • ISBN: 9780804139298
  • Dimensions: 5.67" W x 0.94" L x 8.54" H
“Crisply written, rational and practical, Zero to One should be read not just by aspiring entrepreneurs but by anyone seeking a thoughtful alternative to the current pervasive gloom about the prospects for the world.”
– The Economist

"An extended polemic against stagnation, convention, and uninspired thinking. What Thiel is after is the revitalization of imagination and invention writ large…"
– The New Republic

"Might be the best business book I've read...Barely 200 pages long and well lit by clear prose and pithy aphorisms, Thiel has written a perfectly tweetable treatise and a relentlessly thought-provoking handbook." 
– Derek Thompson, The Atlantic

“This book delivers completely new and refreshing ideas on how to create value in the world.” 
-  Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook
 
“Peter Thiel has built multiple breakthrough companies, and Zero to One shows how.” 
-  Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla

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

"Zero to One is an important handbook to relentless improvement for big companies and beginning entrepreneurs alike. Read it, accept Peter’s challenge, and build a business beyond expectations." 
- Jeff Immelt, Chairman and CEO, GE

“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 Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan

“Thiel has drawn upon his wide-ranging and idiosyncratic readings in philosophy, history, economics, anthropology, and culture to become perhaps America’s leading public intellectual today”
-  Fortune

"Peter Thiel, in addition to being an accomplished entrepreneur and investor, is also one of the leading public intellectuals of our time. Read this book to get your first glimpse of how and why that is true."
- Tyler Cowen, New York Times best-selling author of Average is Over and Professor of Economics at George Mason University

"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

"Forceful and pungent in its treatment of conventional orthodoxies—a solid starting point for readers thinking about building a business." 
- Kirkus Reviews

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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