Zero to One
Recently, I reread Zero to One by Peter Thiel and wanted to note down a few key takeaways for future reference. 1. Building a Monopoly Business: Thiel emphasizes that for a business to succeed, it should aim to build a monopoly. A monopoly means having complete control over a particular market. To illustrate this, let’s consider Google. When Google was founded, there were many other search engines like Yahoo. However, Google developed a superior algorithm that delivered highly relevant search results, making it so popular that “Google” is now a verb in the Oxford Dictionary, meaning “to search....