The first team he founded was called "PayPal Gangster" in Silicon Valley, including later founding Space Exploration Technology Company and co-founding the awesome elon musk of Tesla Motors with others-one of the most awesome figures in the world today; There is also reid hoffman who co-founded LinkedIn with others; Steve Chen and Dzhavid Karim, who founded the YouTube video website; Jeremy Stowe Paellmann and Russell Simmons, who founded the Yelp review website; David Sachs, who co-founded Yammer Enterprise social networking service company with other investors; And himself, co-founded Palantir Company. Today, the market value of these seven companies exceeds $654.38+0 billion.
After listening to these profiles, will you also be interested in such people? Open the book and see what he wants to tell us.
This book is of great reference value to a person who is about to start a business. After all, his experience can teach you something, although the author says that every success is different.
In the first chapter of this book, the author points out that when interviewing candidates, he often asks a question: "On which important issues do you have different views from others?"
In fact, this book is peter teale's own answer to this question.
About the future: If our society does not change in the next 100 years, then the future will be 100 years later. If the world changes in the next 10 year, the future will be within reach.
About progress: there are two kinds of progress, one is horizontal progress, that is, from 1 to n, and the other is vertical progress, that is, from 0 to 1. Compared with 1 to n, the author thinks that 0 to 1 is more important, and the progress of science and technology can create a real future.
About tradition: Traditional ideas are usually arbitrary and wrong. Every wrong traditional concept is like a burst bubble, from the Internet bubble to the brick (real estate) bubble, which tells us: How much of your understanding of enterprises is based on the wrong response to past mistakes? The most counter-mainstream action is not to resist the trend, but not to abandon one's independent thinking in the trend. 1, bold attempt is better than mediocrity and conservatism. A bad plan is better than no plan at all. It is difficult to make money in the competitive market. 4. Marketing and products are equally important.
About competition: competition kills enterprises, and creative monopoly enterprises are the driving force for making society better. All successful enterprises are different. For those of us who have just finished reading Stanford minimalist economics, we only know the benefits brought by the market and competition, but we haven't fully digested them. Can you accept another completely subversive concept?
On the advantage of backwardness: one step ahead is only a strategy, and what really matters is the future. "To win, the first task is to study the endgame."
About opportunity: success is not winning the lottery! Long-term planning is still the most important.
On power law: don't put eggs in multiple baskets, and you will lose everything in the end. The 80-20 rule tells us that 80% of resources are in the hands of 20% people. Timing and decision-making also follow the power law, and some key moments are far more important than others. But the most important thing is often not obvious.
About secrets: the truth is in the hands of a few people. If it is a secret, don't tell me. All successful enterprises are built on little-known secrets.
About the foundation: the foundation determines how high the superstructure can be built. Choosing the right partner is very important. It is also important for employees to adopt appropriate incentives. It is very important for enterprises to keep innovating.
About gang culture: cults are usually all wet on important issues, and successful start-ups have very correct views on the reasons why other companies don't understand. The connotation of the enterprise is the culture of the enterprise, and each employee only focuses on one thing.
About marketing: customers don't come to the door.
About machines: machines will never replace humans, only human tools.
About green energy: technology, timing, monopoly, team, sales, persistence and secret solutions are the secrets of Tesla's rise.
About the future of the world: Our task now is to find a unique way of innovation. Yes, the future is not only different, but also better, that is, from 0 to 1, as novel as the ancients first saw the world. Let us reconstruct the world and protect the future.
How much do you agree and disagree with peter teale's answer to the above questions?
At least, I agree with uniqueness and innovation. Reading allows each of us to maintain the ability of independent thinking, but also makes us different.
Finally, answer a question: Why do I feel that I have different views from others on some important issues?
I think this world is definitely not a material world. Everything I see now is just illusory, so the answer can only be solved when I die. Maybe our life now is a Truman show. So come with your heart, don't be bound by the so-called secular rules, what live high wants!