
He is a partner of the Founders Fund, a venture capital firm that has funded startups such as Airbnb and SpaceX, and founded Thiel Fellowship, which encourages young people to put their ideas into practice instead of continuing in college. Paypal co-founder, Peter Thiel is also an investor for Facebook and several startups. About authors Peter Thiel and Blake Masters In addition, the book brings Peter Thiel's own personal experiences to support the ideas presented. The authors present how organizations can better predict the future and take steps to ensure that their startup is a success. The book Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future (2014), addresses the construction of companies that create something new. Here you will better understand what leads authors to believe that progress comes from monopoly and learn about the secrets of a successful startup, predicting the future and making it a success.

If your answer is yes, this summary of the book "Zero to One" is for you! But have you ever thought about creating something totally different from everything that already exists? How about using your innovative ideas to invest in a business that no one else does? That's because it's easy to get into a market that already exists. 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.The current market is extremely competitive. 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. If you want to build a better future, you must believe in secrets.
