Blake Masters

Peter A. Thiel

The billionaire Silicon Valley entrepreneur behind such companies as PayPal and Facebook outlines an innovative theory and formula for building the companies of the future by creating and monopolizing new markets instead of competing in old ones. 200,000 first printing.

Notes on Startups, Or how to Build the Future

Zero to One

Nkwachi Nwamaghinna

If your product requires advertising or salespeople to sell it, it's not good enough

Cassandra Tang

Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is in even shorter supply than genius.

All happy companies are different: each one earns a monopoly by solving a unique problem. All failed companies are the same: they failed to escape competition.

Every one of today’s most famous and familiar ideas was once unknown and unsuspected.

But is that just because it’s difficult? Or is it an impossible mystery? The difference matters. You can achieve difficult things, but you can’t achieve the impossible.

Still round the corner there may wait A new road or a secret gate, And though we pass them by today, Tomorrow we may come this way And take the hidden paths that run Towards the Moon or to the Sun.

If you’ve invented something new but you haven’t invented an affective way to sell it, you have a bad business—no matter how good the product is.

Computers are complements for humans, not substitutes.

How can computers help humans solve hard problems?

Zero to One quotes

Join the club