Saved by RP and
Zero to One
RUTHLESS PEOPLE
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
THE CASE FOR SECRETS
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
Doing something different is what’s truly good for society—and it’s also what allows a business to profit by monopolizing a new market. The best projects are likely to be overlooked, not trumpeted by a crowd; the best problems to work on are often the ones nobody else even tries to solve.
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
Most cleantech companies crashed because they neglected one or more of the seven questions that every business must answer:
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
The best thing I did as a manager at PayPal was to make every person in the company responsible for doing just one thing. Every employee’s one thing was unique, and everyone knew I would evaluate him only on that one thing.
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
proprietary technology an order of magnitude better than its nearest substitute.
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
ZERO TO ONE: THE FUTURE OF PROGRESS
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
Our task today is to find singular ways to create the new things that will make the future not just different, but better—to go from 0 to 1. The essential first step is to think for yourself. Only by seeing our world anew, as fresh and strange as it was to the ancients who saw it first, can we both re-create it and preserve it for the future.
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
From the outside, everyone in your company should be different in the same way.