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How Henry Singleton Worked
- ▶ 22:06 David Senra In that book, Peter Thiel writes, he says, the single most powerful pattern I have noticed
How to Make Ads That Sell: Scientific Advertising by Claude Hopkins
- ▶ 21:47 David Senra 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.
How Bob Dylan Studied His Way to Greatness
- ▶ 17:13 David Senra 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.
How Claude Shannon Invented The Future
- ▶ 21:22 David Senra Peter Thiel writes, he says, the single most powerful pattern I have noticed is that successful people find value in unexpected places.
How Raymond Plank Made a Fortune in Big Oil's Scraps
- ▶ 23:38 David Senra In that book, Peter Thiel writes, he says,
How Obsession Built Christopher Nolan
- ▶ 23:23 David Senra 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
The Merchant Bankers
- ▶ 27:22 David Senra 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.
Peter Thiel on How to Build a Creative Monopoly
- ▶ 2:28 David Senra That is an excerpt from the book that I'm going to talk to you about today, which is zero to one notes on startups or how to build the future and is written by Peter Thiel and Blake masters. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:48 David Senra So then the book gets into like the fact that you can build, if you, there's a series of questions that, that Peter's going to propose. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:48 David Senra He talks about what the opposite of building a creative monopoly looks like, and he, at the time, he's, uh, he's building PayPal during the dot-com boom in the late nineties, early 2000, and he's describing this environment of people,… 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:17 David Senra So then a few pages later, Peter continues on why this is so important, and he's going to define this again. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:40 David Senra I have a very, maybe a slightly different view than Peter does, and it's just as simple as this line that he just said.
- ▶ 21:15 David Senra So, if you go back to what Peter's saying here, hey, most of the tech company's value is coming a decade, decade and a half, two decades into the future.
- ▶ 22:54 David Senra 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, and they do this by thinking about business from first principles instead of formulas.
- ▶ 27:30 David Senra So then Peter gives us a perfect example of starting small and monopolizing.
- ▶ 28:51 David Senra And then Peter repeats something over and over again. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:38 David Senra And so then Peter goes into definitive optimism. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:56 David Senra I think, uh, one of the great ways I think about what he's telling us here is that parallel power laws rule everything around us. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:46 David Senra And then Peter gets into why creative monopolies are so rare, why people are not looking for secrets. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:28 David Senra He has this entire chapter called foundations. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:45 David Senra And I love this unexpected insight from Peter Thiel here. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:52 David Senra And so then we get to this chapter I mentioned earlier that he thinks that sales is so important. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:33 David Senra And so Peter Thiel says, when you plot out founders personality traits, they appear to follow an inverse normal distribution. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:03 David Senra And then this is what Peter Thiel says about this.
The Practical Genius of Honda
- ▶ 23:25 David Senra 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.
Joseph Pulitzer: The Inventor of Mass Media
- ▶ 29:30 David Senra One of my all-time favorite quotes I read in Peter Thiel's book, Zero to One, 2 times in the scene
How Arnold Schwarzenegger Won
- ▶ 27:51 David Senra Peter Thiel is one of my all-time favorite quotes.
The Relentless Missionary Creating AGI: Demis Hassabis
- ▶ 25:14 David Senra The first one is Peter Thiel. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:44 David Senra So eventually Demis raises money from Peter Thiel. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:39 David Senra Peter Thiel reappears over and over again in the story. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:06 David Senra Now let's go back to another character, Peter Thiel. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:31 David Senra There was an interesting, you know, a few sentences from Peter Thiel, and he's, he's talking about Demis. 2 times in the scene
The Stubborn Genius of James Dyson
- ▶ 25:55 David Senra To me, that is an echo of Peter Thiel's idea that he shares in the book Zero to One.
How Elon Works
- ▶ 37:13 David Senra Peter Thiel agreed that his fund could put twenty million dollars into SpaceX.
Ken Griffin: Founder of Citadel and Citadel Securities
- ▶ 48:29 David Senra This is something that, that Peter Thiel realized that the problem, a lot of technology company entrepreneurs is they optimize for growth at the expense of durability.
Todd Graves and His $10 Billion Chicken Finger Dream
- ▶ 14:01 David Senra In fact, uh, there's a great line in Peter Thiel's book, zero to one, where he talks about this. 3 times in the scene
Breakfast with Brad Jacobs + How To Make A Few Billion Dollars
- ▶ 22:08 David Senra There's a line in zero to one from Peter Thiel, I think is accurate.
- ▶ 39:58 David Senra I want to read one more sentence, and I'm going to read to you this quote from Peter Thiel that popped in my mind when I got to this section of the book. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:03 David Senra The way Peter Thiel says is, hey, successful people find value in unexpected places, and they do so by thinking about business
Rockefeller's Autobiography
- ▶ 31:30 David Senra And so then Rockefeller starts to go back in time, and he talks about what was occurring before he starts Standard Oil, and he actually had an oil company, a small oil company with a bunch of partners, and they weren't getting along, and…
Nick Sleep's Letters: The Full Collection of the Nomad Investment Partnership Letters
- ▶ 13:08 David Senra It talks about what he learned from working with Peter Thiel, and this part of the post I have saved on my phone, and I think it applies to exactly what's taking place here.
How To Sell Like Steve Jobs
- ▶ 29:30 David Senra The greatest definition of technology I've ever come across was actually in Peter Thiel's book, Sarah to one where Peter says properly understood any new and better way of doing things is technology.
The Biography of George Lucas
- ▶ 1:45:10 David Senra One thing that is consistent, whether it's jobs, Buffett, Bezos, uh, Peter Thiel, this just pops up over and over again.
- ▶ 1:56:06 David Senra Uh, this comes from Peter Thiel.
The Eternal Pursuit of Unhappiness by David Ogilvy
- ▶ 7:01 David Senra When I read that, it made me immediately think of something I read in Peter Thiel's book, Zero to One, episode two 78. 2 times in the scene
The Robber Baron's Art Dealer: Joseph Duveen
- ▶ 29:04 David Senra Uh, there's a great line where it says, uh, monopoly by Peter Thiel and zero to one where he says monopoly businesses capture more value than millions of undifferentiated competitors.
Napoleon's Maxims and Strategy
- ▶ 35:49 David Senra Peter Thiel says there is no formula for success.
- ▶ 47:01 David Senra Uh, there's a lesson from Peter Thiel that I love, and he says, do not divide your attention.
How To Make A Few Billion Dollars by Brad Jacobs
- ▶ 5:12 David Senra I want to read one more sentence, and I'm going to read to you this quote from Peter Thiel that popped in my mind when I got to this section of the book. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:17 David Senra The way Peter Thiel says is, hey, successful people find value in unexpected places, and they do so by thinking about business from first principles instead of formulas.
The Autobiography of Christian Dior
- ▶ 43:31 David Senra One thing that is consistent, whether it's Jobs, Buffett, Bezos, uh, Peter Thiel, this just pops up over and over again.
- ▶ 54:25 David Senra One thing that's going to be helpful in recruiting, this comes from Peter Thiel. 3 times in the scene
Les Schwab (Charlie Munger recommended this book)
- ▶ 1:20:03 David Senra One thing that is consistent, whether it's Jobs, Buffett, Bezos, uh, Peter Thiel, this just pops up over and over again. 2 times in the scene
Charlie Munger (the NEW Poor Charlie's Almanack)
- ▶ 1:38:58 David Senra One thing that is consistent, whether it's Jobs, Buffett, Bezos, uh, Peter Thiel, this just pops up over and over again.
- ▶ 1:49:52 David Senra One thing that's going to be helpful in recruiting, uh, this comes from Peter Thiel.
The Autobiography of Ted Turner
- ▶ 1:08:26 David Senra One thing that is consistent, whether it's Jobs, Buffett, Bezos, uh, Peter Thiel, this just pops up over and over again. 2 times in the scene
Billionaire Art Dealer Larry Gagosian
- ▶ 43:29 David Senra One of my favorite lines in Peter Thiel's book, zero to one, he says the single most powerful pattern I have noticed is that successful people find value in unexpected places.
John D Rockefeller: 38 Letters Rockefeller Wrote to His Son
- ▶ 32:38 David Senra One of my favorite quotes came from, um, I forgot who said it, but it was in Peter Thiel's book Zero to One.
The Biography of Jimmy Buffett
- ▶ 18:57 David Senra Decades before Peter Thiel said in zero to one that if you want to create and capture lasting value, don't build an undifferentiated commodity business.
Working with Jeff Bezos
- ▶ 7:59 David Senra I saw a very similar idea in Peter Thiel's book zero to one. 3 times in the scene
The World's Great Family Dynasties: Rockefeller, Rothschild, Morgan, & Toyada
- ▶ 37:41 David Senra So when I read that paragraph, the first thing I wrote down is one of my favorite quotes from the book Zero to One by Peter Thiel, which I covered on episode two 78 for the second time.
I had dinner with Charlie Munger
- ▶ 6:35 David Senra One of my favorite quotes that I've ever heard Peter Thiel say is he says, most people systematically undervalue their time.
- ▶ 46:22 David Senra Um, I just had, uh, lunch with somebody that was in town to have dinner, uh, with, with Peter Thiel, and he said something that was fascinating, that, uh, Peter had mentioned at dinner 2 times in the scene
David Packard (Founder of HP)
- ▶ 11:24 David Senra This was front of mind because a few weeks ago, I think on episode two, I just reread Peter Thiel's book zero to one.
The Biography of Ralph Lauren
- ▶ 51:19 David Senra With somebody that has dinner regularly with Peter Thiel, um, and he said something that was very fascinating, that, uh, Peter had mentioned at dinner, you know, an idea that he found through the seventh reading of some book, and that just… 2 times in the scene
How Jay Gould Built Wall Street's Biggest Fortune
- ▶ 26:17 David Senra I actually should reread it because it really gives you an insight into how Peter Thiel thinks.
The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie
- ▶ 40:23 David Senra Peter Thiel spotted the opportunity for Palantir based on solving payment fraud at PayPal.
Jeff Bezos' Shareholder Letters
- ▶ 41:17 David Senra Because I just read Peter Thiel's book.
- ▶ 52:06 David Senra This is the beginning of Peter's.
The Biography of Jimi Hendrix
- ▶ 3:59 David Senra And the reason I'm reading this section to you is because one main theme, uh, I'm going to tie it together, uh, with what we just learned last week, uh, with Peter Thiel's book Zero to One.
- ▶ 6:54 David Senra What did Peter Thiel say, tell us last, last week, if you want to create and capture lasting value, you cannot build an undifferentiated commodity business. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:04 David Senra Bob Dylan, Peter Thiel, unique product.
- ▶ 46:37 David Senra I think Peter Thiel talked about the importance of having, like, co-founders having some kind of prehistory together.
What I Learned Before I Sold to Warren Buffett
- ▶ 20:31 David Senra Peter Thiel says, like, there is no formula for entrepreneurship.
- ▶ 47:48 David Senra This is going to remind, uh, this reminded me actually, I think we talked about this, uh, I'm pretty sure it was in the Peter Thiel's book, Zero to One.
Peter Thiel's Ideas
- ▶ 2:32 David Senra Notes on Startups are How to Build the Future, and is written by Peter Thiel. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:55 David Senra Peter tells us why this book exists. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:04 David Senra So then he starts the first chapter with this question, this contrarian question that he's famous for. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:05 David Senra So then Peter spends a chapter talking about what it was like building PayPal during this, uh, this time of mass hysteria. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:41 David Senra And so now we get to one of his main themes is that you should aim for monopoly, but he says by monopoly, we mean the kind of company that's so good at what it does that no other firm can offer a close substitute. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:20 David Senra For Peter Thiel, Peter's like, well listen, technology companies usually follow the opposite trajectory. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:39 David Senra So then we move on to, I would say, Peter's overall worldview, that you can have control a lot more than you think, and essentially shape the world around you, and that he feels that this belief is completely counter to what is the… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:43 David Senra Let's go to Peter. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:34 David Senra And Peter Thiel says recruiting is a core competency. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:29 David Senra And then he has an entire chapter, uh, dedicated on the importance of sales and distribution. 10 times in the scene
Paul Graham's Essays
- ▶ 1:08:04 David Senra When I got to that section, it made me think of one of my favorite quotes from the book Zero to One by Peter Thiel.