Zero to One
All happy companies are different: each one earns a monopoly by solving a unique problem.
— Peter Thiel with Blake Masters, Zero to One (2014)
Introduction
| Zero to One | |
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| Full title | Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future |
| Author | Peter Thiel with Blake Masters |
| Language | English |
| Subject | Startups; Entrepreneurship; Business strategy; Innovation; Venture capital |
| Genre | Nonfiction; Business |
| Publisher | Crown Business |
Publication date | 16 September 2014 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardcover); e-book; audiobook |
| Pages | 210 |
| ISBN | 978-0-8041-3929-8 |
| Website | penguinrandomhouse.com |
Chapter summary
This outline follows the Crown Business hardcover first edition (2014), 210 pages, ISBN 978-0-8041-3929-8; chapter titles per library catalog records.[1][2][3]
🚀 1 – Challenge of the future.
🎉 2 – Party like it's 1999.
🧩 3 – All happy companies are different.
⚔️ 4 – Ideology of competition.
🕰️ 5 – Last mover advantage.
🎟️ 6 – You are not a lottery ticket.
💸 7 – Follow the money.
🗝️ 8 – Secrets.
🧱 9 – Foundations.
🤝 10 – Mechanics of mafia.
📣 11 – If you build it, will they come?.
🤖 12 – Man and machine.
🌱 13 – Seeing green.
⚖️ 14 – Founder's paradox.
♾️ 15 – Conclusion: Stagnation or singularity.
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References
- ↑ "Zero to one, notes on startups, or how to build the future (hardback)". DC Public Library. DC Public Library. Retrieved 10 November 2025.
- ↑ "Zero to one: notes on startups, or how to build the future". Marmot Library Network. Marmot Library Network. Retrieved 10 November 2025.
- ↑ "Zero to One by Peter Thiel, Blake Masters: 9780804139298". Penguin Random House. Penguin Random House. 16 September 2014. Retrieved 10 November 2025.