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Zero to One
THE RETURN OF DESIGN
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
the most dysfunctional organizations, signaling that work is being done becomes a better strategy for career advancement than actually doing work
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
LIES PEOPLE TELL
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
TESLA: 7 FOR 7
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
Bob Dylan has said that he who is not busy being born is busy dying. If he’s right, being born doesn’t happen at just one moment—you might even continue to do it somehow, poetically at least.
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
You can’t find secrets without looking for them.
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
People at a successful startup are fanatically right about something those outside it have missed. You’re not going to learn those kinds of secrets from consultants, and you don’t need to worry if your company doesn’t make sense to conventional professionals. Better to be called a cult—or even a mafia.
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
own. What the Singularity would look like matters less than the stark choice we face today between the two most likely scenarios: nothing or something. It’s up to us. We cannot take for granted that the future will be better, and that means we need to work to create it today.