The left wants to do more with more. The right wants to do less with less. But we need to do more with less. That’s the definition of “technology.” I wrote a bestselling book about this, Zero to One, with Peter Thiel. And now I’m running for the United States Senate in Arizona.
Support my campaign — as a thank you to the next 99 max donors ($5,800 per person, see details below), my campaign will send you the following:
In 2011, I signed up for a class that Peter Thiel was teaching at Stanford Law School. It was called “Sovereignty, Technology, and Globalization.” And it was great – but that’s more or less all I can tell you about it; I never really took notes in school, so the details are lost to history.
In 2012, when Peter returned to Stanford to teach a class about Startups, I was ready. I furiously took down everything I could catch, edited the notes into essays, and put them online. They became a viral phenomenon in the startup community.
About a year later, I saw some people were selling PDF versions of my notes as eBooks. I thought, why not release an official version?
My friend Kyle Kirchhoff started helping me put it together. But he insisted we also make a limited-edition physical copy — something beautiful, something that we’d still be proud to have on our shelves in 50 years. With our friend Dan, we developed a visual concept that got us all pretty excited: a cover of the book, which we thought we should call “Zero to One,” nicely cloth-bound and featuring Ben Franklin flying a kite.
This mockup cover was basically the first thing I showed Peter at our first meeting where I pitched him on this book. (It’s funny because on this early version, my name comes first, because we weren’t even sure Peter would let me use his ideas, let alone actually co-author it.) Once we had this vision – really, once we had that great title, Zero to One, to faithfully encapsulate our thinking on technological stagnation, and Peter's lessons for how to create new technology companies – it was clear that we had to write the book.
Ben Franklin didn’t make the final cover. And Kyle and Dan soon peeled off because once we sold the book to a publisher, “the project got too corporate.” But Jimmy Kaltreider (who is largely the reason the book is so clear and concise) and I worked with Peter every day for the next year, and Zero to One, published in 2014, became a #1 New York Times bestseller. It has now sold nearly 4 million copies worldwide.
This is the first NFT we’re issuing to help share the book’s cool history, and to help raise money for my U.S. Senate campaign, so we can help use Zero to One thinking to save America from the brink of destruction.
To receive the NFT and other benefits listed above, you must donate $5,800 on or before December 31.
We will then be in touch with next steps. To make it easy, please email NFT@blakemasters.com with your donation receipt.
In January, we’ll be in touch with details about receiving your NFT, which we will distribute in Q1 2022 (probably in or before February).
The Discord group will start up in January, and we’ll mail your physical copy of Zero to One in January too.
We will be in touch about potential dates for the token holders party.
Blake intends to win the U.S. Senate GOP primary election in August 2022. But if he does not win that primary election, you will receive a refund of 50% of your donation ($2,900), and you can still keep the book, the NFT, and will still have access to the Discord group and the token holders party.
We think the NFT is cool, but we make no representation about its value or possible future value. This is not an offer to buy securities of any kind. This NFT, along with the signed and personalized hardcover book, are being distributed to donors as collectible pieces of art, to people who want to own a part of Zero to One history and also support Blake’s campaign.
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