“This book delivers completely new and refreshing ideas on how to create value in the world.”
- Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook
“Peter Thiel has built multiple breakthrough companies, and Zero to One shows how.”
- Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla
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.
Peter Thiel is an entrepreneur and investor. He started PayPal in 1998, led it as CEO, and took it public in 2002, defining a new era of fast and secure online commerce. In 2004 he made the first outside investment in Facebook, where he serves as a director. The same year he launched Palantir Technologies, a software company that harnesses computers to empower human analysts in...
Peter Thiel is an entrepreneur and investor. He started PayPal in 1998, led it as CEO, and took it public in 2002, defining a new era of fast and secure online commerce. In 2004 he made the first outside investment in Facebook, where he serves as a director. The same year he launched Palantir Technologies, a software company that harnesses computers to empower human analysts in fields like national security and global finance. He has provided early funding for LinkedIn, Yelp, and dozens of successful technology startups, many run by former colleagues who have been dubbed the “PayPal Mafia.” He is a partner at Founders Fund, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm that has funded companies like SpaceX and Airbnb. He started the Thiel Fellowship, which ignited a national debate by encouraging young people to put learning before schooling, and he leads the Thiel Foundation, which works to advance technological progress and long- term thinking about the future.
Blake Masters was a student at Stanford Law School in 2012 when his detailed notes on Peter’s class “Computer Science 183: Startup” became an internet sensation. He went on to co-found Judicata, a legal research technology startup.
目录
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1 – The Challenge of the Future
Chapter 2 – Party Like It’s 1999
Chapter 3 – All Happy Companies Are Alike
Chapter 4 – The Ideology of Competition
Chapter 5 – Last Mover Advantage
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1 – The Challenge of the Future
Chapter 2 – Party Like It’s 1999
Chapter 3 – All Happy Companies Are Alike
Chapter 4 – The Ideology of Competition
Chapter 5 – Last Mover Advantage
Chapter 6 – You Are Not a Lottery Ticket
Chapter 7 – Follow the Money
Chapter 8 – Secrets
Chapter 9 – Foundations
Chapter 10 – The Mechanics of Mafia
Chapter 11 – If You Build It, Will They Come?
Chapter 12 – Man and Machine
Chapter 13 – Seeing Green
Chapter 14 – The Founder’s Paradox
Conclusion
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2014年10月25日读完第二遍。以下为各章的笔记。 第一章《The Challenge of the Future》：全球化是横向的扩张，只能复制以前就有的成功，而科技创新是纵向的扩张，是创造以前不存在的东西。没有科技创新，只有全球化，这个世界只能玩完。这是为什么要科技创新的原因。 第二章《...
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3 有用 Kat 2015-03-26 09:55:20
书评区有很多人虔诚地做了笔记，其实看他们的就行了，省了很多逼逼。
1 有用 清风₿Ξ 2015-02-24 01:18:14
启发很大的一本书，开年读完的第一本书
14 有用 雪地里的水煮蛋 2015-05-30 09:40:56
definitely lots of wisdom. Shocked to see people claim it's "shallow" on douban. Read reviews on amazon.
50 有用 滕子京 2014-10-22 15:12:24
1.成功遵守指数分布而不是正态分布，最成功的一家初创企业给风投带来的收益大于其余总和。2. 成功的秘诀：避免竞争，争取垄断，从垄断一个小市场开始做大。3. 规划的重要性。| 如果本书作者不是身家数十亿刀的投资巨子、paypal帮大佬，这本书还有人看么
1 有用 Demeter 2014-09-27 23:16:11
虽然其中一些观点需要进一步讨论，但作为hardcore窝只能打五星。