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. “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 Meta.

He is also the founder of the ‘Thiel Foundation. He then went on to launch ‘Clarium Capital’ and co-founded startups like the private American software company, ‘Palantir Technologies,’ venture capital firm, ‘Founders Fund,’ and venture capital fund, ‘Valar Ventures.’ He also partnered the American seed accelerator, ‘Y Combinator,’ and became the first outside investor in ‘Facebook.’ A conservative libertarian, he co-founded the student-run newspaper, ‘The Stanford Review,’ and has made donations to several politicians. He commenced career as judicial clerk and later founded ‘Thiel Capital.’ Thereafter, he co-founded PayPal and remained its CEO till eBay acquired the company. Born in Frankfurt, Germany, Thiel grew up in the US. He is well-known as the co-founder of the American online payment service company PayPal, and the founder of American investment management and hedge fund company Clarium Capital. Peter Andreas Thiel is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, author and philanthropist.

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