Zero To One

29-05-2022

========== Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future (Thiel, Peter)

  • Your Highlight at location 41-42 | Added on Monday, 30 May 2022 00:42:14

Doing what we already know how to do takes the world from 1 to n, adding more of something familiar. But every time we create something new, we go from 0 to 1

Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future (Thiel, Peter)

  • Your Highlight at location 50-50 | Added on Monday, 30 May 2022 00:44:15

Technology is miraculous because it allows us to do more with less

Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future (Thiel, Peter)

  • Your Highlight at location 85-87 | Added on Monday, 30 May 2022 00:50:01

progress can take one of two forms. Horizontal or extensive progress means copying things that work—going from 1 to n. Horizontal progress is easy to imagine because we already know what it looks like. Vertical or intensive progress means doing new things—going from 0 to 1

Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future (Thiel, Peter)

  • Your Highlight at location 90-92 | Added on Monday, 30 May 2022 00:51:18

the single word for horizontal progress is globalization—taking things that work somewhere and making them work everywhere

Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future (Thiel, Peter)

  • Your Highlight at location 95-95 | Added on Monday, 30 May 2022 00:51:56

The single word for vertical, 0 to 1 progress is technology

Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future (Thiel, Peter)

  • Your Highlight at location 110-111 | Added on Monday, 30 May 2022 00:55:09

In a world of scarce resources, globalization without new technology is unsustainable

Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future (Thiel, Peter)

  • Your Highlight at location 126-127 | Added on Monday, 30 May 2022 01:02:20

In the most dysfunctional organizations, signaling that work is being done becomes a better strategy for career advancement than actually doing work (if this describes your company, you should quit now)

Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future (Thiel, Peter)

  • Your Highlight at location 130-130 | Added on Monday, 30 May 2022 01:02:52

Positively defined, a startup is the largest group of people you can convince of a plan to build a different future

Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future (Thiel, Peter)

  • Your Highlight at location 236-237 | Added on Monday, 30 May 2022 01:21:21

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

Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future (Thiel, Peter)

  • Your Highlight at location 251-252 | Added on Monday, 30 May 2022 01:23:18

by mistaken reactions to past mistakes? The most contrarian thing of all is not to oppose the crowd but to think for yourself

Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future (Thiel, Peter)

  • Your Highlight at location 251-252 | Added on Monday, 30 May 2022 01:23:22

The most contrarian thing of all is not to oppose the crowd but to think for yourself.

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