Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Peter Thiel with Blake Masters
Distilled from Thiel’s 2012 Stanford CS183 lectures, this is the canonical short book on contrarian, monopoly-seeking startup thinking: definite optimism, secrets, the power law, the last mover advantage.
About the author
Peter Thiel co-founded PayPal and Palantir and was an early investor in Facebook. Blake Masters, his student and co-author, is an entrepreneur and former political candidate.