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the new book. 0 to 1 what does that mean. peter: it means going to the first car, the first airplane, doing something never done before. it will require us to do new things, to invent new things. what companies have taken us from zero to one? peter: facebook, twitter. emily: you argue we have been in a tech slowdown. have they not been innovative enough? as a society, i would argue we have not done as much as we could have. energy, biotechnology, there has not been as much as one might like. transportation, not moving faster. emily: one thing you tell inspiring aspiring entrepreneurs is not to copy larry zuckerberg or steve jobs. why not? page will next larry not be starting a search engine. the next bill gates will not start an operating system. in some sense, you cannot copy them because they did not copy summary else. emily: you also suggest they come up with one important truth that very few people agree with you on. why is finding something that nobody agrees w ....
and building flying cars along the way. joining me today on studio 1.0, the bold and controversial venture capitalist and now author of a new book, zero to one, peter thiel. thank you so much for joining us. peter: thank you for having me. emily: zero to one, what does that mean? peter: it means doing something new. going to the first typewriter, the first word processor, the first car, the first airplane. doing something that has never been done before. if we are going to take our civilization next level, it will require new things. to invent new things. emily: what companies have taken us from zero to one? peter: facebook with social networking. google in search. emily: and yet, you argue that for the last few decades, we have actually been in a tech slowdown. where are facebook and apple and google? have they not been innovative enough? peter: i think as a society, i would argue we have not done as much as we could have. you have had less innovations in energy ....
commitments we ve made. and potentialsing military threat in the area. do we close up shop and abandon our alliance systems? or south korea doesn t believe we are a credible partner in the area, japan goes nuclear. south korea goes nuclear. you have a nuclear arms race in northeast asia if the united states cannot uphold its alliances. furthermore, if china allows to take over the south china sea and name it as its sovereign territory, that means that the ,rinciple of the global commons of which we have been the main defender of world war ii, if we pull out we are also abandoning that commitment. tough decisiony to make. it involves a lot of trade-off in the wrists are going up. risks are going up. we should be shooting for human welfare. host: what faces the next president? difficultabout those relations between those two countries. guest: there is complexity and uncertainty. the next president will have to deal with some of the callers questions. do we see china as a ....
what kind of person he might want to be his vice president? the main quality that you want is somebody that can be a great president, if something happens to you. don t you think? that s got to be number one, and then i would want somebody that could help me with government. most likely that would be a political person because, you know, i m business and i m very good at what i do and all of that. lou: now, all of that may be just a little premature, but it s obvious the establishment believes trump is now the man to beat, and the republican establishment is more desperate than ever to stop him. they rolled out the 2012 establishment loser to slime trump, former presidential candidate mitt romney tried to do exactly that on neil cavuto s fox news show this afternoon. we have good reason to believe that there s a bombshell in donald trump s taxes. what do you mean? either he s not anywhere near as wealthy as he says he is or hasn t been paying the taxes we expect ....
what kind of person he might want to be his vice president? the main quality that you want is somebody that can be a great president, if something happens to you. don t you think? that s got to be number one, and then i would want somebody that could help me with government. most likely that would be a political person because, you know, i m business and i m very good at what i do and all of that. lou: now, all of that may be just a little premature, but it s obvious the establishment believes trump is now the man to beat, and the republican establishment is more desperate than ever to stop him. they rolled out the 2012 establishment loser to slime trump, former presidential candidate mitt romney tried to do exactly that on neil cavuto s fox news show this afternoon. we have good reason to believe that there s a bombshell in donald trump s taxes. what do you mean? either he s not anywhere near as wealthy as he says he is or hasn t been paying the taxes we expect ....