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Zero to One book review | Honest review
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Dec 22, 2022
Hello guys, Hope you all are doing fine. So, in this video, I have shared my thoughts on Zero to One written by Peter Thiel along with Blake Masters. Zero to One is the very book that inspired my non-fiction love. And in here, I have given an honest review of Zero to One. Zero To One link: https://amzn.to/3jNNpyG TIME STAMP 0:00 Introduction 0:21 About the Book 1:09 Review Time 2:20 Chapters I Liked 6:22 How did this book help me? 7:01 Conclusion 8:04 Bloopers Zero To One Quotes: https://favbookshelf.com/zero-to-one-quotes/
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Hello guys, how are you? Welcome back to Facebook shelf and today we are going to talk about this book 0 to 1
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But before we start, I was wondering if you have read this book or if you are planning to read this book
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Do let me know in the comment section below. Now let's get started but before that let me tell you a bit about this book
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In short, this whole book 0 to 1 is a little. about creating new things that haven't been created yet
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It includes notes on startups and how to build future of new companies
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This whole book stems from the course that Peter Thiel, the author took in Stanford in 2012
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Now, about the authors, this book is written by Peter Thiel along with Blake Masters
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He is an entrepreneur and an investor. He has co-founded PayPal and Palantir and has made first outside investment in Facebook
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He has as well funded startups like SpaceX and LinkedIn. Now considering that he has co-founded so many successful ventures and invested in so many successful
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startups, wouldn't it be interesting to know his view on the roadmap of success and startup
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Now that we know a bit about the book and the author, let's jump into the review. Now to give you a little bit more idea about what the book is going to be about, I'll read out the chapter names for you
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And now that if you want to skip this section, you can just find the link in the description box below
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You can click on the next timeline and continue this watch. So in this book there are total of 14 chapters and the first chapter is the challenge
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of the future. Second is party like it's 1999. Third is all happy companies are different
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Fourth is the ideology of competition. Fifth is last mover advantage. Sixth is you're not a lottery ticket
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Seventh is follow the money. Eighth is secrets. Ninth is foundations. Tenth is mechanics of mafia
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11th is if you build it will they come 12th is man and machine 13th is same grain 14th and the last is founder paradox now let move on to the chapters I liked Do it the subscribe button and press the bell icon to always get notified whenever we upload
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the new bookish video. So I honestly liked all the chapters in this book and I just couldn't
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figure out anyone which I could pick it up and tell you that why I liked this chapter
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So what I decided is to rather take all the 14 chapters and to tell you in one line what the
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chapter is going to be about. Now the first chapter, the challenges of the future, focuses on how
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to have a progressive future. Now moving on to the next chapter, the party like it's 1999. This chapter
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addresses the dot-com bubble and the lessons learned from it by other entrepreneurs. And yet
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it says how opposite of these principles are probably correct. And now moving on to the next chapter
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All Happy Companies are different. Isn't this title awesome? So this chapter explains why all the successful
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companies are different and why all the failed companies are the same now moving on to the next chapter
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the ideology of competition i really found this chapter very interesting in fact there are some
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lines from this chapter which i would like to quote and i would like to share them with you all so here
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they are so let's start with my first favorite so first is the competition can make people hallucinate
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opportunities when none exist second favorite is winning is better than losing
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But everybody loses when the war isn't worth fighting. Now moving on to the third one
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If you can't beat a rival, it may be better to merge. Isn't this just the amazing quote
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Like, wow. We have compiled all the codes from all the chapters in an article
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The link is given in the description box below to check them out. Now, moving on to the next chapter, Last Movers Advantage
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So, this chapter is about how to use Clearhead to build a successful company
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Now, moving on to the next chapter, you're not a lottery ticket
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Isn't it another amazing catchy title? So in this chapter, the author says that all the successful people who say that they are
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lucky are strategically humble, isn't that true? So you might have got that what the author is trying to explain in this chapter is how to overrate the power of chance and how to underrate the power of planning And moving on to the next chapter follow the money This chapter is more from the investor point of view
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It tells us about the power law and how power law becomes visible when you follow money in venture capital
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Now moving on to the next chapter, secrets. This chapter is all about secrets and how to find them and what to do with them
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And then going on, next one is foundations. So all the important foundation for starting
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a new company is included in this chapter. This chapter is all about starting a company with
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right foundations. That is from choosing the right partner to ownership to everything basic
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Let's get to the next chapter, the mechanics of mafia. The author addresses how the ideal company culture would look like. In this, he addresses everything
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from recruiting to assigning specific jobs. And now let's go on to the next chapter
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If you build it, will they come? This section emphasizes on the important
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of selling and why it is important to sell even if you have the best product
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This section also tells us how to sell without actually selling. And now let's move on to the next section, man and machine
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This addresses the long-time question of man versus machine and tells us what is better
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man or machine. I really like the argument and found it to be very insightful
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There are very interesting and informative points and views kept in this chapter
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chapter is about seeing green it emphasizes on clean technology and tells us about the clean
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tech bubble and issues faced by clean tech companies and why haven't they succeeded now moving on to
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the last chapter of this book the founder's paradox this chapter tells us that why it is more powerful
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yet it is why it is very dangerous for a company to be led by a distinctive individual rather than
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a interchangeable manager so overall the content wise there was nothing to dislike in this book as long as
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you're seeing it from the point of view of startup or business or an entrepreneur
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In what ways did this book exactly help me? So this is the book I picked up when I was looking to start something new Friends and the views mentioned in this book are really very practical and they help me a lot This is the very book that inspired my non love I was not that huge fan of non but reading this book really made me realize how
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valuable and important it is to read these books. Basically restarted my bookish journey
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And I'm pretty sure that even after years if I picked this book, I'm going to find the highlighted
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points in this book to be very valuable and very helpful. I really like this book and I'm surely going to give it 5 on 5 stars
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Overall, this book is short, concise and worth reading. I would definitely recommend this book to everybody who are already entrepreneurs or
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starting their entrepreneurship journey or are genuinely interested in the topic of entrepreneurship
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Although the cover suggests that this book is geared towards the startups, the values and
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the principles mentioned in this book are also applicable for the larger companies
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But for the larger companies to unlock the full potential of this book, they have to make the
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conscious culture of changes in the company. And if you have already read 0 to 1 and if you are looking to read something else, then
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you can surely check out Lean Startup and Rework. Also, do tell us in the comments section below if you read nonfiction books and if you
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do, which is your favorite nonfiction book? And if you enjoy this video, do hit the like button and don't forget to share it with your friends
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