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    Peter Thiel's Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future Summary
    Peter Thiel's Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future Summary
    Peter Thiel's Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future Summary
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    This is a Summary of Peter Thiel's #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future Summary

    If you want to build a better future, you must believe in secrets.

    The great secret of our time is that there are still uncharted frontiers to explore and new inventions to create. In Zero to One, legendary entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel shows how we can find singular ways to create those new things.

    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. Information technology has improved rapidly, but there is no reason why progress should be limited to computers or Silicon Valley. Progress can be achieved in any industry or area of business. It comes from the most important skill that every leader must master: learning to think for yourself.

    Doing what someone else already knows how to do takes the world from 1 to n, adding more of something familiar. But when you do something new, you go from 0 to 1. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. Tomorrow’s champions will not win by competing ruthlessly in today’s marketplace. They will escape competition altogether, because their businesses will be unique.

    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.

    Available in a variety of formats, this summary is aimed for those who want to capture the gist of the book but don't have the current time to devour all 223 pages. You get the main summary along with all of the benefits and lessons the actual book has to offer. This summary is not intended to be used without reference to the original book.

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    PublisherAnt Hive Media
    Release dateFeb 5, 2016
    ISBN9781311366702
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      ZERO TO ONE

      Technology and the Threat

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      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      A Gift for You

      Introduction

      Chapter 1: The Challenge of the Future

      Chapter 2: Party Like It’s 1999

      Chapter 3: All Happy Companies Are Different

      Chapter 4: The Ideology of Competition

      Chapter 5: Last Mover Advantage

      Chapter 6: You Are Not a Lottery Ticket

      Chapter

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