BOOK REVIEW: ZERO TO ONE
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Zero to one book is written by Peter Thiel with Blake Masters. It is a kind of notes on startups or how to build the future. I read this book in almost twelve hours, not continuous. Though some of the things I did not get from it. I bought this book by reading a word ‘start-ups.’ Everyone is talking about start-ups. Some of them are working on their start-ups. But for me this world is like good to listen but difficult to understand.
Crisply written, rational and practical - The economist.
A spectacular book on economics- Forbes
This book delivers completely new and refreshing ideas on how to create value in the world- Mark Zuckerberg
Peter Thiel has built multiple breakthrough companies and zero to one shows how- Elon Musk
The book is written with amazing facts and great content. Language of the book is also easy but one may find some technicalities. This book is internationally bestseller. The message from the book I get as, ‘the next bill gets will not built an operating system the next Larry Page and Sergey Brin would not make a search engine. If you are copying these guys, you are not learning from them.’
It is easier to copy a model than to make something doing what we Already know how to do takes the world from zero to n, adding more of something familiar. Every new creation goes from zero to one. This book is about how to get their.
Zero to one book is worth reading even people are not engaged in start-ups or venture capital. Zero to one means creating a game Changing company, going from nothing to something, going from something to a better something. This company can claim on uninhabited stretch of market space in order to create a monopoly. A monopoly in Peter Thiel’s view is not the bad thing we often associate with bullies. It is a good thing that opens up valuable market expression by creating something new. Most of the businesses succeed better when they differentiate rather than compete. It differentiate value as companies charge more for desirable products and services that customer can’t get this anywhere else. This is a principle that forms the basis of brand strategy. The author advises us to err on the side of starting too small. It can be the place where there is a small concentration of people served by few or no competitors. From this place, you can grow it up, as much as you have the advantages of proprietary technology and network effect.
Peter Thiel is an entrepreneur and investor. He founded PayPal, became its CEO. He defined a new era of fast and secure online commerce. He invested in Facebook in 2004, he became its director. In 2004, he started Palantir Technology, a software company that harness computers to empower human analysts in fields like national security and global finance. He provided funding to LinkedIn, Yelp and dozens of successful technologies start-ups. He became partner of Founders Fund, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm that had funded SpaceX and Airbnb. He launched The Thiel fellowship 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: start-up’ became an internet sensation. He went on to co- found judicata, a legal research technology start-up.
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