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Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future is a 2014 book by the American entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel co-written with Blake Masters.It is a condensed and updated version of a highly popular set of online notes taken by Masters for the CS183 class on startups, as taught by Thiel at Stanford University in Spring 2012.
Peter Andreas Thiel (/ t iː l /; born 11 October 1967) is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and political activist. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] A co-founder of PayPal , Palantir Technologies , and Founders Fund , he was the first outside investor in Facebook .
The "PayPal Mafia" is a group of former PayPal employees and founders who have since founded and/or developed additional technology companies based in Silicon Valley, [1] such as Tesla, Inc., LinkedIn, Palantir Technologies, SpaceX, Affirm, Slide, Kiva, YouTube, Yelp, and Yammer. [2]
Joe Lonsdale, who worked for Thiel after serving as editor-in-chief of the Review and now runs venture capital firm 8VC, has hired a number of the conservative paper’s staffers, including Alex ...
(Thiel and David Sacks, an early PayPal executive and a founder of Craft Ventures, would later cite a series of Review articles and anecdotes in the book they wrote on the topic: The Diversity Myth.
Notable books written by its former editors include: The PayPal Wars by Eric M. Jackson [16] Their Lives: The Women Targeted by the Clinton Machine by Candice Jackson [17] [18] The Diversity Myth: Multiculturalism and the Politics of Intolerance at Stanford by Peter Thiel and David O. Sacks [19] Zero to One by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters
After moving to California in 1977 with his parents, Peter Thiel believes the time may have come to finally find a new home. The cofounder of PayPal and Facebook’s first outside investor earned ...
Blake Gates Masters (born August 5, 1986) is an American venture capitalist and former political candidate. [2] [3] Often regarded as a protégé of businessman Peter Thiel, [4] Masters co-wrote Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future with Thiel in 2014, based on notes Masters had taken at Stanford Law School in 2012.