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“I come out against doing a scattered set of disconnected activities, which is what kids are encouraged to do to get into top universities,” said Thiel in an interview on Wednesday. Given his success founding a payments company, launching three well-known investment firms, and now writing a bestselling book, the same could be said for Thiel.Īnd it turns out his views on well-roundedness are more nuanced than they may first appear.

REUTERS/Fred ProuserĪccording to a new book from Peter Thiel, the investor and PayPal co-founder, well-roundedness amounts to “many-sided mediocrity.” Instead, his “Zero to One” urges entrepreneurs to “focus relentlessly on one thing you’re good at doing.”Īnd yet this very readable and provocative book by Thiel, a Stanford graduate with a degree in philosophy, draws on sources from Shakespeare to Roman history to Lady Gaga and amounts to a testament to the value of generalization. Peter Thiel, partner of Founders Fund, speaks during the panel discussion 'In Tech We Trust? A Debate with Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen' at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California April 29, 2013.

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