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Zero To One

The document appears to be notes summarizing key chapters and lessons from Peter Thiel's book "Zero to One". It discusses Thiel's perspective on startups and building successful companies, including that all successful companies are different by solving unique problems, valuable companies create and capture worth, and the importance of understanding the future is uncertain and not attempting to control it. The summary highlights four main lessons from the book: creating a monopoly, having important co-founders, creating a cult-like following, and piecing different aspects together.

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Zero To One

The document appears to be notes summarizing key chapters and lessons from Peter Thiel's book "Zero to One". It discusses Thiel's perspective on startups and building successful companies, including that all successful companies are different by solving unique problems, valuable companies create and capture worth, and the importance of understanding the future is uncertain and not attempting to control it. The summary highlights four main lessons from the book: creating a monopoly, having important co-founders, creating a cult-like following, and piecing different aspects together.

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Name: Mohammad Mukhtar Nusrat

Reg#: 302-1504079
Class: OD, Evening, Tuesday
Assistant Professor: Shams Ull Hayat

“Zero to One” Summary


Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

[CITATION Pet14 \l 1033 ].


This book gives as exclusively inspiring
outlook on building a startup and the future. Thiel is pointed a
Shifter according to the individual metric built by Ray Dalio. Thiel
has, repeatedly recognized his ability to achieve successfully when
effecting a new objective. His industrial method towards business
with lens of a data experts allows him to both professionally and
successfully perform a strategy.

I dared myself with discovering key takeaways that I should start


applying today with our key business. So I outline those in the
summary of section below.
Chapter 1: The Challenge of the Future
The summary of chapter 1 of the book started with a desired
question of Thiel’s and that is “What important truth do very few
people agree with you on?”[CITATION Pet14 \l 1033 ].

The question thought-provokingly stimulates the interviewee to:

1. Reflect and articulate self-generated wisdom (knowledge +


experience), and

2. Become socially ostracized by taking a divisive stance.

Thiel’s method for this question shoots from a expression that he


used, “Brilliant thinking is rare but courage is in even shorter
supply than genius”[CITATION Pet14 \l 1033 ]

This retold from Mark Twain’s quote “If you find yourself on
the side of the majority it’s time to pause and reflect.”

He lasted the chapter by frankly asking: “Why Start-ups?” His


explanation and marking out were very modest.

A start-up is the largest team of individual that


persuade of a plan to construct a different future.
This explanation was far from revolutionary but the idea was more
inspiring none-the-less. The minority group inclines to create the
largest level of movement in society.

Chapter 2: Party Like It’s 1999


This chapter started with an abstract of the economic background
of the period in question.

1. 1990 — economical migration of investments in the USA “


from bricks to clicks”

2. 1997- Economical crash in Thailand

3. 1999- Launch of the Euro

4. 1998- 2000 — Dot.com mania

PayPal was founded with a strategy to generate a new digital cash.


The concept advanced the cash became a technique for
transferring funds via email. The idea was groundbreaking. Many
wholesalers would group toward the new product as the
technology permitted them to obtain funds more professionally in
juxtaposition with their ex-predecessors.

The business shortly after shaped recognized learned a hack for


claiming new clients by spending $10 encouragements and rapidly
increased sufficient traction to get noteworthy funding in 2000
before the dot.com bang.

Chapter 3: All Happy Companies Are Different


This chapter point out and highlights the similarities and the
difference between successful and unsuccessful business.

According to Thiel’s Idea; all successful business are different and


each one makes a monopoly by solving an exceptional problem. All
unsuccessful business are the same: they failed and have fear of
competition.

Shortly after explaining the difference between an unsuccessful


business and a successful one he asked another tough question:
“What valuable business is nobody building?”[CITATION Pet14 \l 1033 ].

To Thiel, a valuable and succeeded business is the summary of


created worth in addition to worth captured.

The essential carry here for enthusiastic entrepreneurs with the


determination of altering the world with business is that we must
built and capture worth. We must not construct an
undifferentiated product to a business.
Chapter 4: The Ideology of Competition
According to Peter; in the chapter the business world to be deeply
similar to war. The similarity is further enhanced by the
metaphorical wartime linguistic.

Thiel, puzzled us with another gifted question: “Why do people


compete?”

1. Marx model: Since we are fundamentally different and own


separate objectives, and

2. Shakespeare model: All challengers are more-or-less


similar (ex: Montague vs Capulet)

Focusing on the wrong characteristics in business (like in war)


lead us to the poisonous understanding that the main problem
truly lies in the similarities. For example, Google and Microsoft
were competing with each other Apple appeared and beaten both.
Chapter 5: Last Mover Advantage*
The first mover, and the last mover; there are two time periods
important in the evolution of a developing market for building an
efficient monopoly.

Thiel hired weight on understanding the appropriate business


assessment process and how to distinguish valid assessments
compared to overstated assessments.

“The equation for the value of a business today is


the value of earnings in the future”[CITATION Pet14 \l 1033 ]. 

Chapter 6: You Are NOT a Lottery Ticket


Thiel pointed out another question: “Can you control your
future?”

On the unusual option that you are able to truly know the contents
of the future with extraordinary correctness then you may be able
to control it. However, the reality is that the future is remarkably
random and uncertain. So don’t attempt to master it.

According to Thiel; on the unusual option that you are able to truly
know the contents of the future with extraordinary correctness
then are able to control it. In addition, the future is random and
uncertain don’t attempt to controlling it.
Chapter 7: Follow the Money
This chapter focusing on 80/20 rule is appropriate for startup
achievement as well.

The Pareto principle is manifest when perceiving the money path.


Undertaking capitalist objectives is to profit from companies in
round sequences funding. Currently companies are attain
exponential development. Most fail while few fundamentally
breakeven.

Chapter 8: Secrets
This chapter discuss about the indefinable themes of hidden
secrets that need to discover.

The author uses geography as a design to prove the lack of finding


needed, no secrets are left.

“Every great business is built around a secret that’s hidden from


the outside. Inner workings of Google’s PageRank algorithm,
Apple iPhone in 2007, etc…”[CITATION Pet14 \l 1033 ].
Conclusion:

According to Thiel Peter the author of “zero to one” book; define


the lessons and methods for business to rapidly progress towards
competitive world market and build better future.

There are four lessons every business should have deep


understanding:

Lesson One: Create Monopoly

Lesson Two: Co-Founders are Important

Lesson Three: Create a Cult

Lesson Four: Piece it together

References
Peter, T. (2014). Zero to One; Note on Startups, Or How to Bulid the Future. New York: Crown Publishing
Group.

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