![]() ![]() Who is the Author of Zero to One Peter Andreas Thiel is. And what venture capitalists like him can do is spot the difference between the indefinite thinkers who value old-fashioned ideas such as competition, and the definite thinkers who will build the new monopolies. The book is about being innovative - going for something unique and not just becoming anyones shadow. ![]() What we need, says Thiel, are more definite thinkers: people with fixed ideas willing to cast them on the world. The world is complex and engaging with it in this way leads to inertia. You might like the sound of them, but they don’t create value. Really solid treatise on how to create REAL innovation.Upside: A really solid book by an accomplished entrepreneur and investor (one of the PayPal founders).Downside: The Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future was read by a nearly unlistenable voice (God, I hope that's not you, Peter Thiel).But the content cuts through.I had to take a HyperFocus DRIVE. Indefinite thinkers start with the data, if you like, or the world as they find it. ![]() If you think that’s a broad and sweeping statement, then here’s another: people are either indefinite or definite thinkers. In a perfectly competitive environment, no business makes a profit and hence all of them exit. Peter Thiel, the founder of the online payment service PayPal and first outside investor in Facebook, thinks competition is overrated. The event will be live streamed for free around the world. ![]() Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel (Virgin Books, £16.99) General Assembly is thrilled to welcome Thiel to our New York City campus on Monday, February 9th for a discussion on his business philosophies and new book Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future. ![]()
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