If you are a person who fancy economics and world market, this book will change a lot of your perspective. After reading this book, you will question your conventional thoughts about the world. If you revere the advice that you should not put your eggs in one basket, well, it will be of great challenge to read this through the end. As an outsider, I would say that given a seat on this exclusive lecture on a course once taught by Peter Thiel at the Stanford University is a previlege to readers everywhere. This is not to be taken for granted, especially to those who will not be able to afford going to an IVY league. Be really observant when the author lays out the varying ideas and each of their outcomes. He then points out which of the outcomes are favorable to building a resilient future. When I read this book, this made me question paths people take, conventional paths that is. Be prepared to see the world in a different light, a spectrum Peter Thiel would like you see, one that you wouldn't expect everyone would see.

Extremely good 📚 read it with the blank mind loved it totally the only book I liked written by a billionaire so far on point book 📕 must read Provides uniques insights on creating new business , along with how to create a successful one at that. This book helps imbibe a growth mindset. Love the encouragement this books gives you to think and act different than the crowd, truly creative ideas do not come from following the crowd. A good book if you want to do revolutionary business. Very inspiring. most people believe the future is globalization but he believes technology will lead us into the future.What globalization offers is commoditization everyone will have access to the same goods and services and quality will suffer for the sake of equal distribution of quantity. However, technology will continue to propel us into new ways of thinking and existing and society will not flatten in terms of progress and uniqueness. book has a core theme of empowering the individual. The technological future is not going to happen unless individuals or teams thereof make it happen. The future is not inevitable. Moore's law for transistors just doesn't happen like a natural phenomena; you need a dedicated team of innovators always solving the technical challenges. (Actually, Moore's law is expected to not hold over the next decade, due to technological barriers.) I liked the idea of "You are not a lottery ticket." Too much credit is given to founder blind luck in the creation of successful companies in popular culture. There were a whole lot of people busting their humps with late nights and weekends making these things happen. Startups are not 9-5 M-F jobs with lots of vacation and perks built in. Take this book as one grand lecture of business in Stanford or Harvard Must read 10/10 He encourages would-be entrepreneurs to ask this question: “What valuable company is nobody building?” Any good answer to this question must necessarily harbor a secret. It can be a secret of nature or secret of human nature, but in both places there are always hidden truths to be discovered—if we only look in a certain way. When you share your secret, you turn others into co-conspirators. Creative monopolists” give customers more choices by adding entirely new categories of abundance. The history of progress is the history of new monopolies replacing incumbents. “Every business is successful exactly to the extent that it does something others cannot.” Monopoly, therefore, is not a pathology but a condition of success. The perfect place to start is where there’s a small concentration of people served by few or no competitors. From there you can scale it up, as long as you have the advantages of proprietary technology (your secret sauce) and network effects (the tendency of a service to become more valuable as more people use it). It claims that Silicon Valley engineers are expected to “listen to what customers say they want” and give it to them. Really? I’ve worked there 35 years and have rarely heard this, except from a few old-school marketers. Even the designers at Apple start with a “minimum viable product” and iterate their way to success. They just do it before they go to market instead of after, so their products seem to spring fully formed from the brow of Tim Cook or Jony Ives. Must must read 📚

The book, “Zero to One” by Peter Thiel gave a uniquely impressive perspective on building a startup and the future. Thiel is considered a Shifter according to the characteristic metric constructed by Ray Dalio. Thiel has, over-time, continually proven his ability to perform successfully when executing a new objective. His engineering approach towards business with the lens of a data scientist allows him to both efficiently and effectively execute a strategy Peter Thiel exposes the evolution of his strategy and philosophy for composing a flourishing startup. He lends lessons acquired from personal experience as a co-founder of PayPal and a venture capital investor that lead him to amass an enormous wealth exceeding a billion thresholds