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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Zero to One comes up
Flexport CEO: Two Questions Every Founder Needs to Ask · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 58:16 Ryan Petersen Zero to One is such a great book, and so I, Sam introduced me, and I had, that book has, 2 times in the scene
OpenAI vs Anthropic vs Open-Source | Token Maxing, AI Hangovers & The Coming ROI Reckoning · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 52:03 Matan Grinberg Well, they order on Amazon, Peter Thiel's Zero to One, and they look up on YouTube how to start a company. 2 times in the scene
The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Rejected It | The Four Bottlenecks in AI | Anj Midha · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 48:36 Anjney Midha When I was at Stanford many years ago as a kid, I took this class that Peter taught called, uh, I think it was turned into this book called Zero to One.
OpenAI Kills Sora & Hits $100M ARR on Ads | Oura Going Public & Whoop Raises at $10BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 47:28 unnamed speaker The meta question for venture is, you know, the classic Peter Thiel zero to one only competitions for losers is what Dr.
Phil Carter: Growth Loops, CAC + LTV Benchmarks, Pricing, Discounts, Paywalls... | E1204 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:21 Phil Carter And then even once you do invest in paid acquisition, you want to run a bunch of tests to see what works, but then once you find the channel that works best, more often than not, there's this power law of distribution that Peter Thiel…
Kaz Nejatian: How Shopify Built a $90BN Business to Last 100 Years | E1189 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 31:35 Kaz Nejatian Like, it's a definition when you read zero to one, uh, Pierre Thiel's book to like, you know, don't have a restaurant.
Trae Stephens: Why No Company is Successful Because of their VC | E1135 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 27:41 Trae Stephens Certainly like, as you know, Peter points out in his book, zero to one competition is for losers and it will always be for losers.
Chris Dixon: Who Will Win the Next Generation of Venture? | E1132 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:49 Chris Dixon And I, um, it's, I think, I think as I recall Peter Thiel, I think in zero to one, he has this
Keith Rabois & Mike Shebat: Creating an Olympian Mindset to Work Ethic| E1087 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 52:39 Keith Rabois You know, if you read Zero and One, Peter talks about both cultural secrets.
20VC: What Is Founder Narrative Fit and How to Detect and Invest In It, How To Avoid Consensus Thinking When Investing, Price Sensititivity; When To Pay Up vs Stay Disciplined & From New York Times To General Catalyst; Why Venture and Journalism are Not S
- ▶ 5:03 Katherine Boyle I was fortunate enough to get accepted and moved out to California, and I quickly became somewhat bored by the business school experience, so I just started reading as many books as I could about technology and Silicon Valley and…
20VC: Portfolio Construction, Optimising SPVs, Opportunity Investing "Between Rounds", Being Distribution-Centric Over Product-Centric and Capital Concentration Within Funds With Sumeet Gajri, Chief Strategy Officer @ Carta
- ▶ 49:02 unnamed speaker Yeah, the two pieces of literature that have had the biggest impact on how I think about company building and investing are Zero to One by Peter Thiel, which took away a lot of the conventional wisdom I'd accumulated for college in the… 2 times in the scene
20VC: Okta Founder Frederic Kerrest on Why You Want To Be A Monopolist In A Small Market, The Biggest Challenges in Scaling Okta To IPO and Being a16z's First Ever Fund Check
- ▶ 11:40 Frederic Kerrest Yeah, I read Peter Thiel's Zero to One a couple years ago, which I think is a very good book, and I recommend people will read. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Initialized's Garry Tan on The Most Important Thing A Seed Investor Can Do For Founders, How Ownership Requirements Change With Evolution of Funds & Why There Is Not Too Much Capital Chasing Too Few Deals
- ▶ 23:19 Garry Tan Those are the ones that seem to perform the best, and that's no surprise to people who follow Peter Thiel and, you know, his book Zero to One.
- ▶ 25:11 Garry Tan Right now, I know we talked about it a little bit earlier, but Zero to One is probably the most interesting book that, frankly, just crystallizes a lot of the super contrarian thinking that nobody talks about around how to deploy capital,…
20VC: Spark Capital's Alex Clayton on How The Best Growth Investors Source, Evaluate and Win Deals, Why Market Depth Is Crucial When Analysing Markets & Why Capital Is Only A Temporary Competitive Advantage
- ▶ 26:32 Alex Clayton Recent book, Peter Thiel's Zero to One, summarizes what investors and founders should think about
20VC: Why Too Many People Give Up Too Quickly, Why You Should Never Start A Venture Without Owning The Underlying Data & Why We Have Over-Estimated The Ability of Automation with Dennis Mortensen, Founder & CEO @ X.ai
- ▶ 29:15 Dennis Mortensen The Hard Thing About Hard Things, Zero to One, and so on and so forth,
20VC: Elad Gil's High Growth Handbook on The Commonalities of The Truly Great CEOs, How To Hire The Very Best Execs, Why Cash is A Defensible Moat Today & The Pros and Cons of M&A and IPOs
- ▶ 1:00 Harry Stebbings Not only is this the first book that I've read voraciously from cover to cover in a long, long time, but it's now outselling Zero to One and Lean Startup as pre-order.
20VC: Why You Have To Be A Good Long Term Actor To Succeed in VC & How Owning An Esports Team Could Be A $Bn Outcome with Clinton Foy, General Partner @ Crosscut Ventures
- ▶ 24:41 Clinton Foy But, but I also love some VC books like Peter Thiel's Zero to One.
20VC: How Startups Should React To Today's Funding Environment & Why Big Markets Are More Forgiving with Jenny Lefcourt, Partner @ Freestyle.vc
- ▶ 19:39 Harry Stebbings That does, that does really intrigue me because, you know, for, for many listeners of the show who might have read Pisteel's, uh, zero to one, he very much focuses on, on narrow niche markets at the beginning.
20VC: Accel's Brian O'Malley On The Prioritisation Of Growth, The Metrics That Show True Customer Retention & Why The Most Interesting Companies Create A Market
- ▶ 25:21 Brian O'Malley So my favorite business book that I read, um, is actually zero to one. 2 times in the scene
20 VC 064: Finding Exceptional People with Big Ideas with Nick Beim, Partner @ Venrock
- ▶ 27:00 Harry Stebbings Have you read Zero to One?