In this, perhaps, Golden Age of technology entrepreneurship, Peter Thiel can rest assured he will find an eager audience for his new book, ZERO TO ONE: Notes on startups, Or How to Build the Future (apparently he couldn’t decide).

Thiel, who turns 47 next month,  was a co-founder of PayPal, and a co-founder of the somewhat scary data firm Palantir. He’s well-known as the first outside investor in Facebook and oversees a hedge fund and his own venture capital firm, Founders Fund. Our crack team of wealth analysts here at Forbes have Thiel’s net worth pegged at $2.2 billion, as of Sept 12, 2014.

Image: Technology has made it easier than ever to start a company, but what skills and knowledge should new entrepreneurs fill their heads with and from which books should they get them from? (image credit: Rick & Brenda Beerhorst on Flickr)