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Cover of Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters

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

Peter Thiel and Blake Masters · 2001
Mentioned 27 times across 4 podcasts · 2018–2026
Mention timeline27 mentions
20182026
Where it's mentioned
2026
#438 James Garfield's Extraordinary Rise
Founders · Oct 2026
“One of my all time favorite quotes is from the book Zero to One. In that book, Peter Thiel writes”
#437 The Tycoons: Carnegie, Rockefeller, Gould & Morgan
Founders · Oct 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”
#435 Mark Zuckerberg's Empire
Founders · Sep 2026
“One of my all time favorite quotes is from the book Zero to One. In that book, Peter Thiel writes”
#424 Peter Thiel on How to Build a Creative Monopoly
Founders · Jul 2026
“Zero to One Notes on Startups are How to Build the Future, and it's written by Peter Thiel and Blake Master”
#423 Soichiro Honda
Founders · Jun 2026
“One of my all time favorite quotes is from the book Zero to One. In that book, Peter Teal writes, he says the single most powerful pattern I have noticed Is that successful people find value in unexpected places”
#417 Arnold Schwarzenegger
Founders · Apr 2026
“Peter Tio was one of my all time favorite quotes. It's in his book, Zero To One”
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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · Apr 2026
“The meta question for venture is, you know, the classic Peter Thiel zero to one, competitions for losers. is what Dr. Thiel said”
2025
“$100M dollar brands are being built for boring products” - Harley Finkelstein of Shopify
My First Million · Jun 2025
“Competition is for losers. And he has these like slogans, almost like marketing slogans that come just for losers, and then he launches zero to one his book that was all about how to build a monopoly”
2024
#350 How To Sell Like Steve Jobs
Founders · May 2024
“The greatest definition of technology I've ever come across uh was actually in Peter Thiel's book, Sarata One”
2023
#331 Christian Dior
Founders · Dec 2023
“this comes from Peter Teel. I think this is the book Zero to One. understand that most companies don't even differentiate their pitches to potential recruits and to hiring”
#323 Jimmy Buffett
Founders · Oct 2023
“Decades before Peter Till said in Zero to One. that if you want to create and capture lasting value, don't build an undifferentiated commodity business”
#321 Working with Jeff Bezos
Founders · Sep 2023
“I saw a very similar idea. In Peter Tele's book Zero to One, I wanna read from that book right now”
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My First Million · Sep 2023
“Now everyone knows the framework because he's written the book zero to one”
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Founders · Jun 2023
“Zero to One by Peter Teel, which I covered on episode two seventy eight”
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Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy · Mar 2023
“And one of the insights that he pointed out in his book, Zero to One Is that a lot of the founders of the most impactful companies”
2022
#282 Jeff Bezos Shareholder Letters
Founders · Dec 2022
“I just read Peter Thiel's book, the main theme of zero to one is The fact that Undifferentiated commodity businesses don't make any money”
#279 What I Learned Before I Sold to Warren Buffett
Founders · Nov 2022
“We just covered this last week. in that book when I re read Zero to One”
#278 Peter Thiel
Founders · Nov 2022
“And the book is zero to one. Notes on startups or how to build a future. And is written by Peter Teel”
#275 Paul Graham
Founders · Nov 2022
“one of my favorite quotes from the book, Zero to One by Peter Thiel”
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My First Million · Jul 2022
“What's Peter Teal's book Zero to One? He talks about like he's like there's like basically like these I I don't remember the words he used, but he said like there's like a moat or like the truth”
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My First Million · Jun 2022
“Peter Thiel's zero to one is not on his bookshelf and for that reason I'm out”
#244 Harry Snyder (In-N-Out Burger)
Founders · May 2022
“One of those books happened to be zero to one and he says explicitly talks about colts in that book”
2021
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Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy · Aug 2021
“One of my favorite visual representations of that is in Peter Thiel's book where He says like the instinct would be if there's a bell curve of people, you would just expect like the tails of the curve for founders to be like higher. But he's like, actually, no, it's actually inverted”
#190 Henry Ford and Thomas Edison
Founders · Jul 2021
“This is another thing uh Peter Ton his book Zero to One talks about”
2020
#157 The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
Founders · Dec 2020
“Peter Thiel in his book Zero to One has an entire chapter about this”
2019
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Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy · Mar 2019
“I bought zero to one and I actually think zero to one is worse. Than then the Tumblr blog”
2018
#30 Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
Founders · Jul 2018
“the note I left myself is actually a quote from another book and it's actually Peter Till Zero to One”