{"id":2266,"date":"2026-09-30T20:19:28","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T19:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/?p=2266"},"modified":"2026-09-30T20:19:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T19:19:28","slug":"zero-to-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/2026\/09\/30\/zero-to-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Zero to One"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Zero-One-Notes-Start-Future\/dp\/0753555204\/\">book<\/a> from investor <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peter_Thiel\">Peter Thiel<\/a>. I am focus in the investment side and not in the political, that reminds me to Musk&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The idea from &#8220;zero to one&#8221; is to create something that doesnt exist, that is where the big profit can be created.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mentions that is very important the personality of the founder and the size of the management team (the smaller the better) and how much is the founder paid itself (should be less than others to set the mood). All these is important for the success of the startup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He talks about Paypal and the merge with X.com (Musk). He want monopolies because competition reduce profits, this was funny because from &#8220;Chip Wars&#8221; it was the contrary, you want competition and mass market to be profitable. Although the idea of his monopoly is a progressing one, not one that stops the development. The idea is &#8220;nice&#8221; but I dont see it happening&#8230; there are humans involved&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He talks about the PayPal mafia, that most of them afterwards found multibillion companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a book from investor Peter Thiel. I am focus in the investment side and not in the political, that reminds me to Musk&#8230;. The idea from &#8220;zero to one&#8221; is to create something that doesnt exist, that is where the big profit can be created. Mentions that is very important the personality of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/2026\/09\/30\/zero-to-one\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Zero to One&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2267,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266\/revisions\/2267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}