Business and Industry

Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters, Crown Currency, 2014.  For mature industries capitalism is about competition. But for new industries, capitalism is about going from zero companies in the industry to one company in the industry, My favorite quote: “What important truth do very few people agree with you on?”

The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger  by Levinson, Marc, Princeton University Press, 2006.

Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business by Danny Meyer, Harper Perennial, 2016.