Summary:
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
If you want to build a better future, you must believe in
secrets.
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.
From the Hardcover edition.
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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.