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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. [1]
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 .
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.
In 2016, Thiel donated more than $1 million to Trump's presidential campaign. He had a prime-time speaking slot at the Republican National Convention and served as a go-between with Silicon Valley ...
It was PayPal cofounder and venture capitalist Peter Thiel who introduced his mentee, JD Vance, to President-elect Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago in 2021. Three years later—with Trump and Vance just ...
The Stanford Review has helped Thiel created a vast and powerful interconnected web. ... The conservative student newspaper cofounded by Peter Thiel in 1987 has been riling up the left-leaning ...
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
J.D. Vance’s bona fides for a run to the U.S. Senate in 2022 largely rested on two things—the success of his Rust Belt memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, which captured the plight of the white working ...