Saurabh Modi’s Reviews > Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future > Status Update

E.g., I see 1st chapter as: innovation increases the overall pie of the world, 2nd as form worldview from first principles, not from mistaken reactionary learnings to failures and 3rd as - any lasting growth can only come from creating value nobody else is creating (to those who say, ideas are dime a dozen and that it’s the execution that counts; yeah, not saying it doesn’t).

I’ve gone through the first three lessons. I earlier read some of the more critical reviews that decry the opinions raised in the book. My take is different: what Peter Thiel is offering is not the “right opinion” or “wrong opinion”, but rather a different lens to view the world: more than the correctness, why you hold a certain opinion is more important.