Thiel, whose $500,000 investment in Facebook netted a $1 billion return, added, “I’ve come to think of tech, and the tech industry, as one of the best ways for people to impact our world today.

Another may well be Thiel’s excellent new book, Zero to One.. No one reads the same book, and while Zero to One is billed as one about business (its subhead is “Notes on Startups, or How to ...

Thiel encourages companies to take society from Zero to One, making vertical progress rather than horizontal, explaining how: “If you take one typewriter and build 100, you have made horizontal ...

NPR's Wade Goodwyn talks to investor and Paypal cofounder Peter Thiel about his new book, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future.