A ground-breaking and thought-provoking book on innovation and what it takes for a new company to prosper, from the co-founder of one of the most successful tech start-ups in history WHAT VALUABLE COMPANY IS NOBODY BUILDING? The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine....

Refining and expanding on the lecture notes from his start-ups course at Stanford (which received over a million views online), Thiel says that progress comes in two forms: vertical and horizontal....