#1 NEW Yo r K TIMES BESTSELLER If you want to build a better future, you must believe in secrets. The great secret of our time is that there are still uncharted frontiers to explo r e a nd new inventions to create. In Zero to One , legendary entrepreneur a nd investo r Peter Thiel shows 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. Info r mation technology has improved rapidly, but there is no reason why progress should be limited to computers o r Silicon Valley. Progress can be achieved in any industry o r area of business. It comes fr om the most impo r tant skill that every leader must master: learning to think fo r yourself. Doing what someone else already knows how to do takes the wo r ld fr om 1 to n, adding mo r e of something familiar. But when you do something new, you go fr om 0 to 1. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page o r Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. Tomo r row’s champions will not win by competing ruthlessly in today’s marketplace. They will escape competition altogether, because their businesses will be unique. Zero to One presents at once an optimistic view of the future of progress in America a nd a new way of thinking about innovation: it starts by learning to ask the questions that lead you to find value in unexpected places.