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Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel
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In the most minimal sense, the future is simply the set of all moments yet to come. But what makes the future distinctive and important isn’t that it hasn’t happened yet, but rather that it will be a time when the world looks different from ...more
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