Narrated by Blake Masters, Zero to One by Peter Thiel has a runtime of 4 hrs 50 mins on Audible.
Publisher’s Summary
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “This book delivers completely new and refreshing ideas on how to create value in the world.”—Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta
“Peter Thiel has built multiple breakthrough companies, and Zero to One shows how.”—Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla
The great secret of our time is that there are still uncharted frontiers to explore and new inventions to create. In Zero to One, legendary entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel shows how we can find singular ways to create those new things.
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. Information technology has improved rapidly, but there is no reason why progress should be limited to computers or Silicon Valley. Progress can be achieved in any industry or area of business. It comes from the most important skill that every leader must master: learning to think for yourself.
Doing what someone else already knows how to do takes the world from 1 to n, adding more of something familiar. But when you do something new, you go from 0 to 1. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. Tomorrow’s champions will not win by competing ruthlessly in today’s marketplace. They will escape competition altogether, because their businesses will be unique.
Zero to One presents at once an optimistic view of the future of progress in America and a new way of thinking about innovation: it starts by learning to ask the questions that lead you to find value in unexpected places.
Audiobook Details
- Narrated by: Blake Masters
- Length: 4 hrs 50 mins
- Publisher: Random House Audio
- Release year: 2014
- Audible category: Business & Careers / Career Success / Business & Careers
Listener Ratings
Zero to One holds an average listener rating of 4.6/5 from 24887 Audible ratings.
On Audible, ratings for this title break down into narration performance and story separately:
- Performance (narration): 4.5/5
- Story: 4.5/5
- 5-star ratings: 68% of all ratings
What Audible Listeners Are Saying
5/5 stars — “The importance of contrarian thinking”
This book is itself contrarian in comparison to all other startup books out there. It does an amazing job of forcing you to destroy the foundations upon which you’ve built so many of your assumptions in the startup world, thereby revealing the truth of how to build something valuable in a world of copy & paste entrepreneurship.All the real, non-bullshit, subconscious lessons that many successful entrepreneurs have either intuitively known or learned the hard way are concisely stated in this book.
I think I’ll likely listen to it a few more times in order to untrain all the other thinking that’s been ingrained in my head.
— Oh hai, Audible listener
4/5 stars — “Awesome content, boring narrator “
The ideas and concepts in this book are fantastic. I will have to listen to this again and again. My only complaint is the presentation. The narrator is monotone and boring to listen to. I often had to rewind to listen again and again because it wasn’t easy paying attention. At times I felt like I was listening to a 9th graders midterm presentation on a subject they didn’t fully understand.— Brandon , Audible listener
5/5 stars — “Eye openning”
Lots of great ideas covered in the book. My biggest takeaway is to build a monopoly and avoiding competition. Highly recommend to anyone thinking of starting a business. This is a must read.— Qi, Audible listener
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