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4.7/5 Barnes & Noble Publisher Crown Business ISBN 978-0804139298 Originally published 16 September 2014 Country United States of America Pages 224 (first edition) | 4.2/5 Goodreads Language English Publication date September 16, 2014 Website Official website Page count 224 (first edition) Subject Politics & Government | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Zero to one by peter thiel blake masters book summary
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future is a 2014 book (release date September 16, 2014) by venture capitalist, PayPal co-founder, and early Facebook investor Peter Thiel along with Blake Masters. It is a condensed and updated version of a highly popular set of online notes taken by Masters for the CS183 class on startups taught by Thiel at Stanford University in Spring 2012.
Contents
- Zero to one by peter thiel blake masters book summary
- zero to one notes on startups or how to build the future peter thiel s book
- Promotion
- Early mentions
- Book reviews
- References
zero to one notes on startups or how to build the future peter thiel s book
Promotion
To promote the book, Peter Thiel sent out his first tweet ever on September 8, 2014, from a Twitter account that had been dormant for years. He was also interviewed by Alexia Tsotsis of TechCrunch. On September 9, Thiel did a podcast with Timothy Ferriss for the latter's show. On September 11, Thiel did an Ask Me Anything on Reddit.
On September 13, Thiel appeared on NPR with host Wade Goodwyn to discuss the book.
Early mentions
An article that appeared in Business Insider in May 2014, four months before the official release of the book, said that it "sounds like an interesting read."
Book reviews
Publishers Weekly" wrote of the book: "Thiel touches on how to build a successful business, but the discussion is too abstract to offer much to the next Steve Jobs—or Peter Thiel."
Jason Shen reviewed the book, issuing a strong recommendation to readers to buy it. According to Shen, the best part of the book was the idea that successful startups are based around secrets, whereas the worst part of the book was Thiel's favoring startups that have a grand plan upfront.
In November 2014, Timothy B. Lee reviewed the book for Vox.com, writing that although Thiel's book contained some good advice, he made the advice sound more contrarian than it really was, did not provide sufficiently concrete advice, and made some questionable claims.
In The New Atlantis, James Poulos compares Thiel to Frederich Nietzsche and argues Thiel, "the most political and theoretical of the supernerds," writes esoterically in Zero to One, when he "raises the prospect of a remarkably comprehensive failure among our best and brightest."