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The International Best selling book - Zero to One

Zero to One is a book written by Peter Thiel and its best selling book on entrepreneurship. The writer explains that when we think about the future, we hope for a future of progress but there are two types of progress. Horizontal progress means copying things that work and it means 1 to n. Horizontal progress is easy to do because we already know what it looks like. The second one is  Vertical things means doing new things - going from 0 to 1. Vertical progress is harder to imagine because it requires doing something nobody else has ever done.

For example - if you take one typewriter and build 100, you have made horizontal progress and if you have a typewriter and build a word processor, you have made vertical progress.

At the macro level, the single word for horizontal progress is globalization. - taking things that work somewhere and making them work everywhere.

The single word for vertical, 0 to 1 progress is technology- any new and better way of doing things is technology.
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