Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
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| Rating | : | 4.32 (932 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00M284NY2 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 195 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-05-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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But every time we create something new, we go from 0 to 1. Progress comes from monopoly, not competition.If you do what has never been done and you can do it better than anybody else, you have a monopoly - and every business is successful exactly insofar as it is a monopoly. Zero to One is about how to build companies that create new things. But the more you compete, the more you become similar to everyone else. It draws on everything Peter Thiel has learned directly as a co-founder of PayPal and Palantir and then an investor in hundreds of startups, including Facebook and SpaceX. The act of creation is singular, as is the moment
David Landau said Practical, Smart, and Engaging. Zero to One is a refreshing intellectual deep dive into the motives behind entrepreneurship.It’s full of unique, practical insights, and discusses success in terms of human nature and culture. Along with business strategy, Thiel outlines how successful innovation shapes society and shares an intriguin. Athan said A mix of brilliant, infuriating and self-indulgent. A better title for this book would have been "Six ideas Peter Thiel wants to put out there" but that admittedly sounds less catchy than "Zero to One"Two of the ideas are HUGE and the rest are filler. The first infuriated me and the second inspired me. The remaining four ideas were not exactly news to me bec. Most misleadlingly the book bills itself as a handbook on how to build the next great startup. Of course this is an impossible t The author is a master entrepreneur and investor but as a writer I think he falls flat. I found myself skimming through the book to get to the juicier bits and even so there was really nothing substantial beyond the summaries I had read in others' book reviews. Most misleadlingly the book bills itself as a