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Book of the month: From Zero to One (time change!) by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters Date: Thursday, July 20, 2023 | 4:00pm - 5:00pm Location: Virtual Host: Marc Scotchlas About the Book From Zero to One by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “This book delivers completely new and refreshing ideas on how to create value in the world.”—Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta “Peter Thiel has built multiple breakthrough companies, and Zero to One shows how.”—Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla The great secret of our time is that there are still uncharted frontiers to explore and new inventions to create. In Zero to One, legendary entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel shows how we can find singular ways to create those new things. Thiel begins with the contrarian premise that we live in an age of technological stagnation, even if we’re too distracted by shiny mobile devices to notice. Information technology has improved rapidly, but there is no reason why progress should be limited to computers or Silicon Valley. Progress can be achieved in any industry or area of business. It comes from the most important skill that every leader must master: learning to think for yourself. Doing what someone else already knows how to do takes the world from 1 to n, adding more of something familiar. But when you do something new, you go from 0 to 1. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. Tomorrow’s champions will not win by competing ruthlessly in today’s marketplace. They will escape competition altogether, because their businesses will be unique. Zero to One presents at once an optimistic view of the future of progress in America and a new way of thinking about innovation: it starts by learning to ask the questions that lead you to find value in unexpected places. Peter Thiel Peter Thiel is an entrepreneur and investor. He started PayPal in 1998, led it as CEO, and took it public in 2002, defining a new era of fast and secure online commerce. In 2004 he made the first outside investment in Facebook, where he serves as a director. The same year he launched Palantir Technologies, a software company that harnesses computers to empower human analysts in fields like national security and global finance. He has provided early funding for LinkedIn, Yelp, and dozens of successful technology startups, many run by former colleagues who have been dubbed the “PayPal Mafia.” He is a partner at Founders Fund, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm that has funded companies like SpaceX and Airbnb. He started the Thiel Fellowship, which ignited a national debate by encouraging young people to put learning before schooling, and he leads the Thiel Foundation, which works to advance technological progress and long-term thinking about the future. List of Books for 2023 and 2024 : Click Here for more Information About the SV Monthly Book Club : Register Here (email Marc to unregister) The SV Monthly Book Club is a no-cost forum to discuss books and publications that touch on various topics about project and program management. It recurs on the 3rd Thursday each month, virtually. There is no club membership, and anyone can join the discussion forum of the month. To attend the forum, please pre-register (for free) and be sure you have pre-read the book of the month. Registration is necessary as we are limiting the number of attendees, so that everyone has a chance to express their opinion and listen to others. This is a professional event. While we are open to opinions from all angles during the book discussions, please be respectful to the host and all attendees. About the Event Leader Marc Scotchlas is the event leader and discussion facilitator Registration Required and limiting attendees. First come first serve. Zoom link to be distributed to registrants on the day of the event. Look for a Zoom invitation the day of the event from one of the staff assisting, or scotchlas@gmail.com. Feel free to set that not to go to your junk mail. Additional Information Event Leader: Marc Scotchlas {Click here to contact Marc} PDU: Up to 5.0 PDUs to complete the reading; 1.0 to participate in the monthly meeting. The participation PDU can be either Business Acumen or Power Skills. PDU claim code will be emailed to attendees after the event. The self-claimed reading can be claimed on the PMI-PMP website after you log in. The full amount can be claimed after you’ve read the entire book (regardless of end time), or partial credit can be claimed when you’ve read all that you will complete. To claim the reading PDUs, log into the PMI-PMP website, and go to: https://ccrs.pmi.org/claim/new/Read. ♦PDU claiming instruction Recognize that PDU credit may be partial if you've read only the part of the book that you will read, or that full credit can be taken later after the discussion event is complete and you have completed the entire book. There's no drop-dead requirement by the discussion date for reading, but the discussion is much fuller if you've read the entire book. Speakers Marc Scotchlas - Event Host Shot Director at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Marc served a career in the Navy prior to joining Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 2018, serving as Shot Director at the National Ignition Facility. Managing operations at the world’s premier laser facility that is leading the way to ignition and solving humanity’s energy needs has been his passion since. Residing in the Bay area and perpetually expanding his horizons has been his pastime.

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