In his book, Zero to One, Thiel shows what it takes to go from Zero to One. Peter Thiel’s contrarian way of thinking helped him invest in some of today’s largest internet companies like Facebook, Airbnb or Spotify. This is the question that PayPal co-founder, Peter Thiel asks his interviewees.įrom the beginning of the book, this brings us a peek into the billionaire investor’s way of thinking. This summary will show you that in a startup, going from “0 to 1” is more important than going “from 1 to n”. Thiel is today one of the most important investors in the world. This summary will enable you to know the philosophy and advice of Peter Thiel, which was documented by one of his students (Blake Masters) in a chair at Stanford college. His unique reasoning for evaluating new business will show you a new perspective on how to set up a startup and be successful. 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.MicroSummary: Peter Thiel founded PayPal and was one of the first to invest in Facebook, making him one of the most influential billionaires in Silicon Valley. 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 Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. But when you do something new, you go from 0 to 1. It comes from the most important skill that every leader must master: learning to think for yourself.ĭoing what someone else already knows how to do takes the world from 1 to n, adding more of something familiar. 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. The great secret of our time is that there are still uncharted frontiers to explore and new inventions to create.
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