
He is President of The Thiel Foundation and Chief Operating Officer of Thiel Capital. He has appeared on 60 Minutes, CNBC, CBS Sunday Morning, Bloomberg News and been featured in the New Yorker, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Fortune, The Atlantic, USA Today, BusinessWeek, and more.īlake Masters was a student at Stanford Law School in 2012 when his detailed notes on Peter's class "Computer Science 183: Startup" became an internet sensation. Since then he has co-founded the data analytics firm Palantir Technologies, made the first outside investment in Facebook, provided early funding for companies like SpaceX, LinkedIn, Yelp, and Spotify, and established and funds the Thiel Foundation, which nurtures tomorrow's tech visionaries. Peter Thiel is a technology entrepreneur and investor best known for co-founding PayPal. The team co-wrote Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future in 2014. Nassim Nicholas taleb, author of the black swan. Masters was the COO and president of those respective organizations. In the case of peter Thiel, read it twice.

'when a risk taker writes a book, read it. 'this book delivers completely new and refreshing ideas on how to create value in the world.' 'peter Thiel has built multiple breakthrough companies, and zero to one shows how.'

It's easier to copy a model than to make something new: doing what we already know how to do takes the world from 1 to n, adding more of something familiar. If you are copying these guys, you aren't learning from them. The next Larry page or Sergey bring won't make a search engine. The next bill gates will not build an operating system. What valuable company is nobody building?
