

Too often, we hear what of the "next Uber of " or how rich you can become if you capture an "x%" of a certain market.

He talks of what he believes encompasses a successful start-up. Thiel does spend a significant amount of time on philosophy.

So Thiel and the rest of the PayPal Mafia may be on to something. The "PayPal Mafia" have even built several successful start-ups. Yet, Peter Thiel has built a successful start-up not once, but several times. Even after they followed the "right" footsteps. You hear of the success stories but never of the ones who failed. I read this book not planning to open up a start-up for myself, but to gain a perspective into Thiel's thinking style.īy nature, I am skeptical of the self-made entrepreneur stories and success stories. Even though this book is made for the start-up founder, I found it applicable to many other aspects of life.
