Information technology has improved rapidly, but there is no reason why progress should be limited to computers or Silicon Valley.
Thiel begins with the contrarian premise that we live in an age of technological stagnation, even if we’re too distracted by shiny mobile devices to notice. In Zero to One, legendary entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel shows how we can find singular ways to create those new things. The great secret of our time is that there are still uncharted frontiers to explore and new inventions to create. He is President of The Thiel Foundation and Chief Operating Officer of Thiel Capital.If you want to build a better future, you must believe in secrets. He started the Thiel Fellowship, which ignited a national debate by encouraging young people to put learning before schooling, and he leads the Thiel Foundation, which works to advance technological progress and long- term thinking about the future.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. He has provided early funding for LinkedIn, Yelp, and dozens of successful technology startups, many run by former colleagues who have been dubbed the “PayPal Mafia.” He is a partner at Founders Fund, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm that has funded companies like SpaceX and Airbnb. The same year he launched Palantir Technologies, a software company that harnesses computers to empower human analysts in fields like national security and global finance. In 2004 he made the first outside investment in Facebook, where he serves as a director. He started PayPal in 1998, led it as CEO, and took it public in 2002, defining a new era of fast and secure online commerce. Peter Thiel is an entrepreneur and investor.
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