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.
"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
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