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Eight Things I Learned from Peter Thiel’s Zero To One

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Peter Thiel is an entrepreneur and investor. He co-founded PayPal and Palantir. He also made the first outside investment in Facebook and was an early investor in companies like SpaceX and LinkedIn. And now he’s written a book, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future, with the goal of helping us “see beyond the tracks laid down” to the “broader future that there is to create.” Zero To One is an exercise in thinking — about questioning and rethinking received wisdom to create the future. And thinking about thinking is what we’re all about. Here are eight lessons I took away from the book. Like Heraclitus, who said that you can only step into the same river once, Thiel believes that each moment in business happens only once. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. And the next Mark Zuckerberg won’t create a social network. If you are copying these guys, you aren’t learning from them. Of cour

Books | Reading Time: 7 minutes Summary: Peter Thiel’s Zero To One Peter Thiel, the entrepreneur and investor who co-founded PayPal and Palantir, made the first outside investment in Facebook, and was an early investor in companies like SpaceX and LinkedIn, also wrote a book titled Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future . The book is an exercise in thinking — about questioning and rethinking received wisdom to create the future and aims to help readers “see beyond the tracks laid down” to the “broader future that there is to create.” I’ve disti

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