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Thiel zero to one6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() Masters: Right away there was a lot of energy in the room. I didn’t take any notes in the first class. If you can take it, it’s all about what I know about startups.” ![]() In January or February 2012, my last year at law school, we were emailing back and forth, and says, “Oh by the way, I’m teaching a class in the spring. This class was just at the law school, but a small seminar… after like four or five classes you realize here’s a guy who’s thought a lot about different stuff. ![]() What attracted you to taking Peter Thiel’s class?īlake Masters: The CS 183 class that I took the notes in was actually not the first class I took with Peter…I met him first in January 2011. What follows is a lightly edited excerpt of a conversation with Masters about Peter Thiel’s startup class, and how he went from being Thiel’s student to co-author. Now, Masters and Thiel have transformed those class notes into a book: “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future.” This fall, Y Combinator is teaching a class at Stanford called CS 183B, and it features Thiel as a guest speaker. One of the students in Thiel’s class, Blake Masters, posted detailed notes on his personal blog that became an instant hit in the tech community. In the spring of 2012, Peter Thiel taught a class called CS 183: Startup, at Stanford. ![]()
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