Progress comes in two forms. Horizontal progress (1 to n) copies what works — globalization, the paradigmatic example, spreads the old wealth-creating toolkit everywhere. Vertical progress (0 to 1) invents something genuinely new — "technology" in the broadest sense, any new and better way of doing things. "Of course, it’s easier to copy a model than to make something new. Doing what we already know how to do takes the world from 1 to n, adding more of something familiar. But every time we create something new, we go from 0 to 1."

— In our words · Source: Zero to One (Peter Thiel with Blake Masters)