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This book is a collection of the best quotes from Peter Thiel, the founder of PayPal, on the topics of entrepreneurship, innovation, and investing.
The most important thing that he has to say about business is that the most successful businesses are the ones that learn the mindset of going from zero to one. In other words, they start off small and get bigger and bigger.
This is exactly what happened to him and his friends. They started with a small tech company and ended up becoming a multi-billion-dollar company.
He says that the reason for the failure of the clean tech bubble is that we have the same mindset as the people who got into the bubble. The quote that he uses to describe our current mindset is: "It's the same as if you were in the flat economy, and the dollar was the size of a really big rock."
We have the same mindset as the people who got into the bubble.
What is it?
It's our society that has embraced the competition ideology.
It's our educational system that is based on competition and businesses love war references (“make a kill”, “sales task force” etc.).
The reason for the failure of the clean tech bubble is that we have the same mindset as the people who got into the bubble.
What does he say about society?
The author here talks about the importance of getting feedback and ideas from your customers.
He says that in the ideal culture employees love the company and love their job to the point they don’t look at when it’s time to go home.
