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Cover of Zero to One by Peter A. Thiel

Zero to One

Peter A. Thiel · 2001
Mentioned 50 times across 16 podcasts · 2018–2026
Mention timeline50 mentions
20182026
Where it's mentioned
2026
#439 How Eiichiro Oda Works
Founders · Nov 2026
“I thought of Peter Tale's book Zero to one, which again, if you could summarize it, essentially differentiation is the whole game”
What Happens If Billionaires Control the Tools of War? With Sharon Weinberger
Intelligence Squared · Nov 2026
“I always tell people read his book, Zero to One, which lays out his thoughts on entrepreneurship”
What Happens If Billionaires Control the Tools of War? With Sharon Weinberger
Intelligence Squared · Nov 2026
“I always tell people, read his book, Zero to One, which lays out his thoughts on entrepreneurship”
Best Of: Stop Wasting Your Talent and Start Making a Difference
The Next Big Idea · Oct 2026
“written a brilliant book about entrepreneurship about how to build a startup. It's called zero to one”
Crypto Scams, Dopamine Websites, Tasteful Slop & Vape Shop Energy - Rabbit Hole #6 - #1168
Modern Wisdom · Oct 2026
“Einstein didn't actually say that. uh it's in zero to one”
Inside Ryan Holiday’s $250K Reading List
The Daily Stoic · Oct 2026
“Peter Thiel, who I wrote a book about zero to one”
#436 Ari Emanuel's Autobiography
Founders · Oct 2026
“the book Zero to One. In that book, Peter Teal writes”
TIP850: Walmart (WMT): From Discount Retailer to eCommerce Powerhouse w/ Kyle Grieve & Shawn O'Malley
The Investor's Podcast (We Study Billionaires) - The Investor’s Podcast Network · Oct 2026
“That's sort of an idea that we learned from Peter Thiel in his book Zero to One”
#434 Sam Walton
Founders · Sep 2026
“One of my all-time favorite quotes is from the book Zero to One. In that book, Peter Thiel writes, he says, the single most powerful pattern I have noticed is that successful people find value in unexpected places”
TIP847: Alphabet (GOOGL): The Megacap That Still Might Be Underrated w/ Kyle Grieve & Shawn O’Malley
The Investor's Podcast (We Study Billionaires) - The Investor’s Podcast Network · Sep 2026
“And so Peter Thiel talks about that famously in his book Zero to One, one of our favorites to recommend”
How Michael Bloomberg Works
Founders · Sep 2026
“One of my all-time favorite quotes is from the book Zero to One. In that book, Peter Thiel writes, he says, the single most powerful pattern I have noticed is that successful people find value in unexpected places”
#432 The Mind of Napoleon
Founders · Sep 2026
“quotes is from the book Zero to One”
TIP841: Palantir – Palantir is Cheaper than I Thought! w/ Daniel Mahncke & Shawn O’Malley
The Investor's Podcast (We Study Billionaires) - The Investor’s Podcast Network · Aug 2026
“and Peter Tiel. They probably both need a lot of PR help, uh some sort of rebranding would go a long way, but Again, it also goes without saying that Peter is hugely respected in the investment community and in Silicon Valley and his book Zero to One is one of my favorite investing books ever”
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My First Million · Aug 2026
“What I've noticed is that like have you read Peter Thiel's Zero to One? Okay, so he he like It has this whole chapter chapters on like moats and he's like one moat is I forget what he says”
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The Daily Stoic · Aug 2026
“A book I've recommended many, many times. I sell it here at the painted porch is Zero to One by Peter Thiel”
Silicon Valley billionaires’ war on democracy
Fresh Air · Aug 2026
“And in his book Zero to One, which is about startups and how to succeed in Silicon Valley in business. Peter Thiel says it's important to start a business that runs like a cult”
5 ruthless business lessons from one week in NYC
My First Million · Jul 2026
“I read Peter Thiel's book, um What's it called? Um Zero to One. Zero to one. And he talks about secrets”
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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · Jun 2026
“this book, right? It'd be zero to one is such a great book”
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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · Jun 2026
“So what does someone who wants to learn about starting companies do? Well, They order on Amazon Peter Thiels 0 to 1 and they look up on YouTube how to start a company. And so, you know, read 0 to 1. Incredible book”
20VC: Anj Midha on Investing $300M into Anthropic | The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Turned it Down | The Four Bottlenecks to Compute | What the China Has Smashed and Why We Should Be Worried
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · Apr 2026
“I took this class that Peter taught called uh turn into this book called Zero to One”
Johnathan Bi - Why the Best Founders Might Need a Little Delusion (Ep. 308)
Infinite Loops · Apr 2026
“Thiel wrote in Zero to One that all but I think one or two of the founders of PayPal built bombs in high school”
Josh Kushner - Concentration and Conviction
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy · Feb 2026
“I heard Peter Till say recently, if he was to go back and rewrite any part of Zero to One”
2025
Why experts writing AI evals is creating the fastest-growing companies in history | Brendan Foody (CEO of Mercor)
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · Sep 2025
“Second is zero to one, uh, which of course is a classic”
Inside the expert network training every frontier AI model | Garrett Lord (Handshake CEO)
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · Aug 2025
“I'm uh I'm a sucker for Peter Thiel, zero to one. I read it. And I started the company”
How Palantir built the ultimate founder factory | Nabeel S. Qureshi (founder, writer, ex-Palantir)
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · May 2025
“I don't know this for sure, but I do I do know that Till writes about this in Zero to One and h his take is just that as soon as you have these titles”
David Senra - The Focused Few
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy · May 2025
“I always say this quote and I think it's dead dead right. Uh It's fascinating that everybody in technology has read Zero to One”
#383 Todd Graves and his $10 Billion Chicken Finger Dream
Founders · Mar 2025
“In fact Uh, there's a great line in Peter Thiel's book, Zero to One, where he talks about this”
5 Conversations that broke our frames this week
My First Million · Mar 2025
“What's his book called? Zero to one. He said he there's like a graph where it's like a bar chart or something like that, where it's like extreme success”
2024
#373 Breakfast with Brad Jacobs + How To Make A Few Billion Dollars
Founders · Dec 2024
“There's a line in zero to one from Peter Thiel that I think is accurate”
Andrew Huberman: You Must Control Your Dopamine! The Shocking Truth About Cold Showers!
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · Aug 2024
“You know, like Peter Thiel's book Zero to One, as I recall, defines competition as anti creativity”
Building A 100+ Year Legacy + Peter Thiel’s Fellowship + Bomb Hiring Questions
My First Million · Aug 2024
“the bigger one that he did was when he did his book Zero to One, he went on tour instead of saying, Buy my book, I'm Peter Thiel”
#343 The Eternal Pursuit of Unhappiness: David Ogilvy
Founders · Mar 2024
“When I read that, it made me immediately think of something I read. in Peter Tele's book Zero to One”
2023
Reflections from my dinner with Charlie Munger
Founders · Nov 2023
“what Peter Till says in zero to one is like problem with the technology issue now”
#324 John D. Rockefeller (38 Letters Rockefeller Wrote to His Son)
Founders · Oct 2023
“One of my favorite quotes came from um I forgot who said it, but it was in Peter Thiel's book Zero to One”
Mike Bloomberg
Founders · Oct 2023
“Peter Teal's book Zero to One, he he says, Listen, you want to create and capture lasting value”
Brian Balfour: 10 lessons on career, growth, and life
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · Oct 2023
“Of course, like Peter Thiel's zero to one book had that impression on”
The World's Richest Fashion Billionaire, A New D2C Biz Idea, And Working With People You've Never Met
My First Million · Mar 2023
“What's that book called that Zero to One. Zero to One, and it's awesome”
#291 David Packard (Founder of HP)
Founders · Feb 2023
“a few weeks ago, I think on episode two seventy eight, I just reread Peter Thiel's book, Zero to One”
2022
The Founder of Kinkos — Paul Orfalea
Founders · Dec 2022
“there's an entire section in zero to the book by Peter Thiel, Zero to One talks about you know, everybody talks about oh advertising It doesn't work on me”
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Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · Jun 2022
“like ... Peter Thiel, his book From zero to one. The job of an entrepreneur at the beginning is just to find out something that's ten acts better”
2021
#202 A Few Lessons From Warren Buffett
Founders · Sep 2021
“in zero to one, but I've heard him say”
#197 Founder of the Rothschild Family Dynasty
Founders · Aug 2021
“That is one of the longest podcasts I've done. It's on Peter Teele. I did uh his book, obviously Zero to One, which is a no brainer”
#192 Jim Casey (Founder of UPS)
Founders · Jul 2021
“First I want to read you this quote from Zero to One”
#181 Paul Orfalea (Kinkos)
Founders · May 2021
“there's an entire section in zero to the book by Peter Thiel, Zero to One talks about you know, everybody talks about oh advertising does it doesn't work on me”
2020
#477: Yuval Noah Harari on The Story of Sapiens, Forging the Skill of Awareness, and The Power of Disguised Books
The Tim Ferriss Show · Oct 2020
“I've seen In some books that I've quite enjoyed like zero to one”
Birchbox: Katia Beauchamp
How I Built This with Guy Raz · Mar 2020
“famous book by Peter Tiel, Zero to One, and you guys went from zero to a four hundred and eighty five million dollar valuation”
2019
Alex Danco – Scarcity, Abundance and Bubbles - [Invest Like the Best, EP.121]
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy · Feb 2019
“if you read Zero to One, you know Peter Till's book. Peter Till's book It opens with the you know that has this big idea”
2018
[REPLAY] Alex Moazed – Building Modern Monopolies - [Invest Like the Best, EP.25]
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy · Nov 2018
“Really fast, quick, easy reads like zero to one”
#31 Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue and Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Founders · Aug 2018
“To quote one of the books that I talk about on the podcast today, Zero to One”
Season 2, Episode 10: The Rover-DogVacay Merger (with Rover CEO Aaron Easterly)
Acquired · Jun 2018
“In Peter Tiel zero to one, what's your secret”