Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Zero To One is one of the best and most influential books in terms of thinking and shaping products and choosing markets to develop and build a sustainable and long – term business. The book emphasizes the exclusive story, what people often understand right about monopolies and how to make your company well – developed and quickly thanks to taking advantage of the advantage of monopoly since being a start – up.
Thiel begins with the paradoxical premise that we live in a period of technological stagnation, and we are even distracted by our flashy mobile devices. Information technology has improved rapidly, but there is no sense that outside advancement should be limited to computers or to Silicon Valley. Progress can be made in any industry or business area. It comes from the most important skill every leader must memorize: learning to think for himself.
A Bill Gates of the future would not have written a computer operating system like Microsoft. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin will not create a search engine like Google. And of course, the next Mark Zuckerberg won’t create a social network like Facebook. If you imitate them, you will learn nothing from them.