Explosions of Creativity

Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future, by Peter Thiel, with Blake Masters (Crown Business, 224 pp., $27)

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Peter Thiel is a legend of the digital revolution.

Born in Germany in 1967, he was moved to California as a toddler, and showed early signs of intellectual gifts by becoming a young chess master. He seemed well launched on the cursus honorum of the American upper middle class as he majored in philosophy at Stanford and pushed on to Stanford Law School and to a clerkship at the Eleventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals.

James V. DeLong

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James V. DeLong

James V. DeLong is senior fellow, project on technology and innovation, for the Competitive Enterprise Institute.

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