
At the end, there was too much focus on trivial and uninteresting things like how founders are eccentric – may be he wants to show the audience that how cool he is. And goes on to sell his product, his current investment to the readers – not sure how many realised this. Says the real selling is when customers are not even aware that the selling is happening. Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future is a book that presents Peter Thiels. The author emphasizes the importance of salesmen. This study guide refers to the 2014 eBook edition. I have come across this measure of monopoly for the first time. Discusses mostly about monopoly – and a definition for it. The book gives a completely new perspective on how businesses should be run or rather on what basis one should even start a company. Play Sample Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future Written by: Blake Masters, Peter Thiel Narrated by: Blake Masters Unabridged Audiobook Play Free With 30 Day Free Trial Add to Cart - 15. In Zero to One, legendary entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel shows how we can find singular ways to create those new things. Listen Free to Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Blake Masters, Peter Thiel with a Free Trial. The great secret of our time is that there are still uncharted frontiers to explore and new inventions to create. Other factors like psychology, spirituality, and other unknown realms are completely discounted by the author.

And according to the author, technology is the only thing that is capable of achieving it – with so many helping move the current scenario from 0 to 1. It ends with a philosophy called Singularity where there is infinite hope for the future. Instead Parker was portrayed as a villain who didn’t know what he was doing. No credit was given to Sean Parker who introduced Zuckerberg to Thiel – the first major outside investment in Facebook.
