Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

Thiel's own primer on startups, expanded from a 2012 Stanford class Blake Masters took notes on. Argues that competition destroys profits and every valuable company is some kind of monopoly; lays out the definite-optimist 2x2 for thinking about the future, the power law that governs venture returns, the 'Thiel's law' foundations every founder gets one shot at, why distribution is as important as product, and the seven questions every business must answer, illustrated by the cleantech bubble and Tesla's escape from it.

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