2015 Schedule
Interactive: March 13–17  •  Film: March 13–21  •  Music: March 17–22

Zero to One: How to Build the Future

Saturday, March 14
3:30PM - 3:50PM

Austin Convention Center
Ballroom G
Austin Convention Center

The great secret of our time is that there are still uncharted frontiers to explore and new inventions to create. In Zero to One, entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel and entrepreneur and lawyer Blake Masters show how we can find singular ways to create those new things.

Thiel begins with the contrarian premise that we live in an age of technological stagnation, even if we’re too distracted by shiny mobile devices to notice. Information technology has improved rapidly, but there is no reason why progress should be limited to computers or Silicon Valley. Progress can be achieved in any industry or area of business. It comes from the most important skill that every leader must master: learning to think for yourself.

Doing what someone else already knows how to do takes the world from 1 to n, adding more of something familiar. But when you do something new, you go from 0 to 1. The next Bill Gates will not build an operatin...

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Presenters

Blake Masters

Co-author

Zero to One

Details

Access
Interactive Badge, Gold Badge, Platinum Badge
Type
Book Reading
Theme
Startup Village and Business
Level
Intermediate

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