Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel

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Intro: A little bit about Peter Thiel

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THE Question teaser

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From Zero to one?

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Chapter 1: The Challenge of the future

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Chapter 2: Party like it's 1999

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4 big lessons - UNLEARNT

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Chapter 3: All happy companies are different

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The importance of monopolies

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Chapter 4: The ideology of competition

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Chapter 5: Last mover's advantage

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Focusing on future benefits (in all areas of life)

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Try to be the last

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Chapter 6: You're not a lottery ticket

1:21:25

Definite vs indefinite

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Optimism vs pessimism

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Chapter 7: Follow the money

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Chapter 8: Secrets

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The story of the unabomber

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The new flatness of the earth

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Chapter 9: Foundations

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Chapter 10: The mechanics of mafia

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Of Cults and Covid-19

2:45:42

Chapter 11: If you build it, will they come?

2:51:23

Different kinds of salespeople

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Chapter 12: Man and machine

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(What) will AI desire?

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Complement not competition

3:13:20

Chapter 13: Seeing green

3:14:10

7 elementary questions in business

3:27:23

Chapter 14: The Founder's paradox

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Eurodisc story

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The extraordinarity of founders

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Conclusion: Stagnation or Singularity?

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WRAP UP: Relation to "Scout mindset" and "Wanting"

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WRAP UP: Our takeaways for life

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THE Question: our answers

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Is it RAD or is it WHACK?