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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