(Peter Thiel himself co-founded PayPal and Palantir - and was the first outside investor in Facebook, turning a $500,000 in 2004 to $1.5 billion+ today)Īll of the companies above are worth at least $1 billion each. Jeremy Stoppelman and Russel Simmons - who founded Yelp.Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim - who got together and founded YouTube.Reid Hoffman - who co-founded LinkedIn.Elon Musk - who founded SpaceX and co-founded Tesla Motors.Well, Peter Thiel has played a role in partnering with inspiring and/or investing in some of the most successful tech entrepreneurs in the world, including: It also draws on many lessons from history, so it's a great refresher that helps you connect a few dots. Thiel gives example after example of how to successfully build the future drawing on both personal experience and industry case studies. Along with co-author (and former student) Blake Masters, Thiel has put together a hard-hitting set of standards for entrepreneurs, startups, and thought-leaders to carefully consider when building the “next big thing” of the future. This book is essentially based on a collection of lectures delivered by Peter Thiel during his teaching years at Stanford. Co-founder of PayPal and major tech mentor and investor Europeans just react to events as they happen and hope things don’t get worse."
Treasury prints “In God We Trust” on the dollar the ECB might as well print “Kick the Can Down the Road” on the euro. The European Central Bank doesn’t stand for anything but improvisation: the U.S. Today the whole Eurozone is in slow-motion crisis, and nobody is in charge. This describes Europe since the early 1970s, when the continent succumbed to undirected bureaucratic drift. An indefinite pessimist looks out onto a bleak future, but he has no idea what to do about it. Even today pessimism still dominates huge parts of the world. "Every culture has a myth of decline from some golden age, and almost all peoples throughout history have been pessimists. So here goes an attempt to distill forty-thousand words on 200 pages so you can digest it in roughly 15 minutes. So with a bit of web research and some highlighting of key insights, I wanted to share a short, actionable guide on how to build a successful and sustainable business. I picked this book up last weekend and couldn't put it down. 'Notes on Startups or How to Build the Future' (Published Sept 2014) Book Summary – the top 10 takeaways from Zero to One.
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