The following is a summary of
Zero to One: Notes on Startups or How to Build the Future. I do not claim to own any of the book's original work, the following is simply a bulleted summarization with a few direct quotes. All copyrights and trademarks belong to their respective owners.
Chapter 1 - The Challenge of the Future:
- The future is simply set moments yet to come
- Progress:
- Horizontal/Extensive: copying things that work (1 to n)
- Vertical/Intensive: doing new things (0 to 1)
- 1815 - 1914: Rapid Technological Development & Globalization
- 1914 - 1971: Rapid Technological Development, but not much Globalization
- 1971 - Now: Rapid Globalization with limited Technological Development centered around IT
- Thiel thinks Technology is much more important than globalization, however, globalization is still important
- New technology comes from new ventures (strartups)
- Historically small groups of people bound together together to change the world
- Reasons for this:
- hard to develop things in big organizations
- conflicting interests
- Bureaucracies move slowly
- Hard to do it on your own
- Startups operate on principle of small groups
- Must stay small enough to accomplish things though
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Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
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- Alec Kriebel