The great secret of our time is that there are still uncharted frontiers to explore and new inventions to create In Zero to One legendary entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel shows how we can find singular ways to create those new things

Thiel begins with the contrarian premise that we live in an age of technological stagnation even if we’re too distracted by shiy mobile devices to notice. Information technology has improved rapidly but there is no reason why progress should be limited to computers or Silicon Valley Progress can be achieved in any industry or area of business It comes from the most important skill that every leader must master: learning to think for yourself

Doing what someone else already knows how to do takes the world from 1 to n adding more of something familiar. But when you do something new you go from 0 to 1 The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine Tomorrow’s champions will not win by competing ruthlessly in today’s marketplace. They will escape competition altogether, because their businesses will be unique