Episode · My First Million · 2026-08-24
Books mentioned on Brutal startup advice from a $2,000,000,000 founder (ft. Allison Ellsworth, Poppi)
Sam Parr discussed Zero to One by Peter Thiel and others.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Zero to One
Zero to One by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters is a foundational business and technology book that argues true innovation creates entirely new things rather than merely copying existing models.
Discussed“What I've noticed is that like have you read Peter Thiel's Zero to One? Okay, so he like has this whole chapter chapters on like moats and he's like one moat is I forget what he says, network effects, this or that. And then he gets to the last chapter and he's like, there is one more moat.”
Where to get it
