![]() ![]() This review hopefully summarizes some observations relevant to an economic developer. He wrote his second book, Zero to Onein 2014. With a net worth in excess of $2 billion he is regarded as one of the Silicon Valley’s most successful–and certainly well known investors. He founded/ sold Paypal and founded several venture capital companies–and then for good measure started yet another innovative company, Palantir. He was an early investor in Facebook and Airbnd, a funder of the venture capital firm, Founders Fund–and a former chess grandmaster. So who is Peter Thiel and why is his book helpful to economic developers? Thiel co-founded Paypal (also its CEO) along with Max Levchin, Elon Musk and five other super-entrepreneurs. ![]()
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