Zero to One Book Summary
Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Book by Peter Thiel
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Zero to One is a contrarian and insightful guide to creating the future through building innovative companies that escape competition and push technology forward.
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Monopoly Is The Condition Of Every Successful Business
"In the real world outside economic theory, every business is successful exactly to the extent that it does something others cannot. Monopoly is therefore not a pathology or an exception. Monopoly is the condition of every successful business."
Section: 1, Chapter: 3
The Value Of A Business
"The value of a business today is the sum of all the money it will make in the future. (To properly value a business, you also have to discount those future cash flows to their present worth, since a given amount of money today is worth more than the same amount in the future.)"
Section: 1, Chapter: 5
Nerds and Sales
"Nerds are used to transparency. They add value by becoming expert at a technical skill like computer programming. In engineering disciplines, a solution either works or it fails. You can evaluate someone else's work with relative ease, as surface appearances don't matter much. Sales is the opposite: an orchestrated campaign to change surface appearances without changing the underlying reality. This strikes engineers as trivial if not fundamentally dishonest."
Section: 1, Chapter: 11
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