Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future Audiobook

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• “The authors distinguish their own thinking and methods from the orthodoxies of the financial and business communities. Lively and often acerbic, Thiel and Masters leave many of today’s business shibboleths trashed along the way. They…provide rules of thumb and case studies drawn from experiences, all bound up with their radically different business methods and practices. Their views on viral marketing and the importance of sales will be of interest to aspiring entrepreneurs, as will their dismissal of current ideas of market and technological disruption…Forceful and pungent in its treatment of conventional orthodoxies—a solid starting point for readers thinking about building a business.”

  — Kirkus Reviews

• Crisply written, rational and practical, Zero to One should be read not just by aspiring entrepreneurs but by anyone seeking a thoughtful alternative to the current pervasive gloom about the prospects for the world.

  — The Economist

• An extended polemic against stagnation, convention, and uninspired thinking. What Thiel is after is the revitalization of imagination and invention writ large…

  — The New Republic"Might be the best business book I've read...Barely 200 pages long and well lit by clear prose and pithy aphorisms, Thiel has written a perfectly tweetable treatise and a relentlessly thought-provoking handbook.

• “This book delivers completely new and refreshing ideas on how to create value in the world.

  —  Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook

• Peter Thiel has built multiple breakthrough companies, and Zero to One shows how.

  —  Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla

•  Zero to One is the first book any working or aspiring entrepreneur must read—period.

  — Marc Andreessen, co-creator of the world's first web browser, co-founder of Netscape, and venture capitalist at Andreessen Horowitz

• Zero to One is an important handbook to relentless improvement for big companies and beginning entrepreneurs alike. Read it, accept Peter’s challenge, and build a business beyond expectations.

  — Jeff Immelt, Chairman and CEO, GE

• When a risk taker writes a book, read it. In the case of Peter Thiel, read it twice. Or, to be safe, three times. This is a classic.

  — Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan

• Thiel has drawn upon his wide-ranging and idiosyncratic readings in philosophy, history, economics, anthropology, and culture to become perhaps America’s leading public intellectual today

  —  Fortune

• Peter Thiel, in addition to being an accomplished entrepreneur and investor, is also one of the leading public intellectuals of our time. Read this book to get your first glimpse of how and why that is true.

  — Tyler Cowen, New York Times best-selling author of Average is Over and Professor of Economics at George Mason University

• The first and last business book anyone needs to read; a one in a world of zeroes.

  — Neal Stephenson, New York Times best-selling author of Snow Crash, the Baroque Cycle, and Cryptonomicon

• "Forceful and pungent in its treatment of conventional orthodoxies—a solid starting point for readers thinking about building a business.

  —   Kirkus Reviews