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It’s ok. There are some serious and legitimate problems with this book, but all of that is a quick search away.

This book could’ve been a pamphlet. Still, there was nothing particularly enlightening in the useful portions of the book. About half of the book are Thiel’s often misguided musings on society and how things like public education are structured. It’s mostly Bs and entirely skipable. If I were a Stanford student enrolled in the lectures this book is born from, I probably would have dropped it after the first session. The “useful” portions of the book deal with running a start-up - something Thiel actually has experience at. Even then, it’s nothing earth shattering. That is to say Thiel’s observations and lessons are by no means a “zero to one” proposition.