ZERO TO ONE 60-SECOND BOOK BRIEFS BY PETER THIEL
ZERO TO ONE
60-SECOND BOOK BRIEFS
BY PETER THIEL
Peter Thiel tells us in Zero To One that the next Bill Gates will not build an operating system, and the next Mark Zuckerberg will not build a social network.
Instead, they will ask themselves the following question…
“What important truth do very few people agree with you on?”
This is not an easy question to answer, but you can start heading down that path by
following these few
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Find out what everybody agrees on. For instance, in a pre-2008 world, everybody would have agreed that real estate always appreciates in value.
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assumptionsDig deeper to figure out if it’s true or not. You might find that the assumptions of an entire industry are based on things that they wish were true, like the financial industry before the crash in 2008.
3Based on this contrarian truth, what valuable company is nobody building?
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