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The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley
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Author:
Jimmy Soni
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster
Date:
February 22, 2022
A definitive look at the origin of PayPal and its founding teamâincluding Elon Musk, Amy Rowe Klement, Peter Thiel, Julie Anderson, Max Levchin, Reid Hoffman, and many others whose stories have never been shared. They have defined the modern world. This experience defined them.
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A gripping account of PayPal’s origins and a vivid portrait of the geeks and contrarians who made its meteoric rise possible. His richly reported narrative includes corporate intrigue, workplace hijinks, breakthrough innovation and first-class nerdiness.
The development of online “wallets” might seem particularly bloodless...and yet The Founders is an intensely magnetic chronicle in which ambitions and emotions run as red-hot as they did in the Facebook movie written by Aaron Sorkin, The Social Network. It helps that PayPal’s origin story...features two of the more complicated antiheroes of our time: Peter Thiel...and Elon Musk.
Well-researched.
Elon Musk can be a vulnerable person. That’s one of the surprising insights from a new book about the founding of PayPal.
