Peter Thiel (co-founder of PayPal, head honcho of Founder’s Fund) recently taught a class at Stanford simply called “Startup.”

One of his class’ students, Blake Masters, typed up all of his notes in essay format, and it’s absolutely phenomenal — both easy to consume and riddled with insightful, practical knowledge. Recommended reading for anyone even remotely interested in tech or startups, or interested in the things I’m interested in.

I’m a Kindle kind of guy, so I scraped everything into a into a .pdf which I figured I’d share. Similar to what Blake disclaims, all credit for good stuff goes to Peter, all credit for the labor and love goes to Blake, and all errors and omissions (the links and attachments and stuff won’t work in the .pdf) are mine.