On "from 0 to 1" and "from 1 to n"

In recent two years, a popular word is called "top-down innovation", which means from 0 to 1, I think.

Alien, the sword goes sideways, so it was born ... just think about these keywords. Typical examples are facebook and Trump, both of which are related to peter thiel, the author of From 0 to 1.

Why did peter thiel propose "from 0 to 1"?

What a person wants to say sounds abrupt to us, but as long as we understand it a little, we will find that most theories come from the gentleman's own situation, that is, every strange theory is about his past experience.

1, American Catholicism.

America is a Protestant country. WASP, that is, whites, Protestants and Anglo-Saxons, is the mainstream social group in the United States, while Catholics are different in the United States.

2, homosexuals

I live in the San Francisco Bay Area, which is the most tolerant place for homosexuals. It is said that they also have special festivals for homosexuals.

3. Transnational entrepreneurship

Stanford University studied law and philosophy, and together with Musk, it first founded PayPal, which is equivalent to Alipay in China. After being sold to Yi Bei, it became an investor. The more famous ones are facebook of Xiaozha, Space Exploration Technology Company of Musk, Yelp (similar to China's public comment network) and Linkedln. Among them, angels invested 500,000 yuan in Facebook and earned more than 25,000 times, which is the angel investment with the highest P/E ratio at present.

4. Reverse practice

Under the trend that software was once popular, people looked down on software and said, "We wanted a flying car, but we got the word 140", which greatly looked down on companies like Twitter. In this Silicon Valley where everyone hates Trump, he was the first to stand up for him and was allowed to be a campaign representative and give speeches everywhere. If others don't like it, they will throw themselves into it without hesitation.

What is "from 1 to n"?

Small step, quick run, iteration. After an achievement comes out, it is a long quantitative change process to use it first and modify it repeatedly in the process of use, so as to quickly eliminate the defects and bugs that have been found.

Rapid and continuous improvement with minimum cost and non-fatal failure, and approaching perfection step by step.

What is the relationship between "from 0 to 1" and "from 1 to n"?

Without "from 1 to n", there is no "from 0 to 1".

"From 0 to 1" is an idealism. That is to imagine a perfect goal, then lay out a perfect strategic step, and finally a new species is born.

"From 1 to n" was a long dormant period before it was born. Seemingly repetitive, in fact, every step is moving forward a little bit, even invisible to the naked eye, and every step is moving in a relatively perfect direction. The last one is completely different from the first one. Alibaba was originally an e-commerce company, and now it is a data operation company. Facebook started as a social platform, and now everyone uses it as a social platform, but it is already the largest advertising company in the world.

"From 1 to n" is a process of slow growth, and this is the most terrible, because everyone can't see it. When one day it grew up and realized "from 0 to 1", everyone was too late.