6/6/2023 0 Comments Peter thiel zero to one![]() What important truth do a lot of people disagree with you on? (like Airbnb: Who would have believed that strangers would stay in the homes of other strangers?!?!).What valuable company is nobody building?.To help us along, Thiel provides some stimulating questions such as these, which I’m recalling from memory: I like this argument and take it as a fun challenge to envision or uncover an idea for a startup that’s likely to scale up to a zero to one business. Google, Facebook, Tesla) that didn’t exist before. He maintains that if human progress is to continue at a meaningful clip, there must be more startups that scale into durable monopoly businesses doing something truly revolutionary (e.g. In the book, Thiel complains that too many of the startups he sees are simply improving on what’s already out there, which causes them to be mired in competition. ![]() All this makes him both a really smart and really rich capitalist.) (If you don’t know who Thiel is, he’s a German-American entrepreneur and investor, co-founder of PayPal, and an early investor in Facebook. He argues that there is too much short-term thinking happening in the startup community. ![]() ![]() It seems that Thiel’s purpose is to get entrepreneurs to think bigger about their startups. ![]() I enjoyed this book because it was insightful and inspiring. Last week I finished reading Zero to One by Peter Thiel. This article originally appeared here on my blog, Cosmic Source Code. ![]()
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