#33 in the ranking · business · 2014
Zero to One
Zero to One, by Peter Thiel, published in 2014, is cited by 119 people in conversations on Hacker News and TabNews. It shows up in 13 of the 20 years, from 2013 to 2025, with the most mentions in 2018. People who cite it also cite The Lean Startup, The Hard Thing About Hard Things and Meditations.
Year by year
Peak: 20 mentions in 2018
Mentions per year: 2007: 0; 2008: 0; 2009: 0; 2010: 0; 2011: 0; 2012: 0; 2013: 1; 2014: 15; 2015: 16; 2016: 19; 2017: 13; 2018: 20; 2019: 11; 2020: 8; 2021: 6; 2022: 7; 2023: 7; 2024: 8; 2025: 3; 2026: 0.
Where it’s cited
What people write
From a text search; it doesn’t yet tell recommending apart from just mentioning.
The only 2 (set of) books I ALWAYS recommend: Incerto by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, and Zero to One by Peter Thiel.
Hacker News · 2022 · in “Ask HN: Books that teach you to think” · see comment ↗
- Zero to one (Peter Thiel, recommended reading as palantir new joiner - not fantastic but has some thought provoking ideas; i.e.
Hacker News · 2019 · in “Ask HN: Books you plan to read in 2020?” · see comment ↗
For better or worse, I mostly only do non-fiction books, and my favorite so far is still Zero to One by Peter Thiel + Blake Masters.
Hacker News · 2017 · in “Ask HN: What are your favorite books of all time, and why?” · see comment ↗
Outro livro também não técnico e não voltado para programação mas que evoluiu muito minha lógica foi De Zero a Um - Peter Thiel, empresário, investidor, acionista e um dos cofundadores da OpenAI, tráz uma visão muito ímpar sobre…
TabNews · 2023 · in “Leituras obrigatórias para um melhor dev” · see comment ↗