![]() The colorful cast of characters-including Thiel, Musk, Hoffman, Levchin-is amazing. “This is a fascinating page-turner about the brilliant and competitive innovators who created PayPal and went on to shape our digital world. Kati Marton, author of The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel “Anyone who has used the internet in the last decade will find The Founders a revealing and sometimes shocking look inside today’s tech revolution and the very human wizards who have transformed our lives-for good and ill.” Robert Kurson, author of Shadow Divers and Rocket Men He has written a book with the power to change how we see the world, and one that reminds us that America’s most beautiful instinct is to embrace original thinkers who are willing to risk everything in the name of innovation. In The Founders, Soni has produced more than just a bona fide business thriller. “A masterpiece of reporting and storytelling by a deeply intuitive writer who gained access to the most important-and elusive-minds of our generation. " entertaining history.Soni’s account memorably renders the personalities involved and engages with ideas about financial sovereignty, open-source technology, and the place of politics in Silicon Valley." n engrossing glimpse of the PayPal mafia’s riotous early days." In The Founders, Jimmy Soni captures the heady days of the dot-com bubble.” “A dramatic business story about the payment’s company rise… also a human tale about Musk, Peter Thiel, and Max Levchin before they went on to greater fame and fortune. "Spellbinding.What an achievement by Jimmy Soni in telling the essential story of PayPal, and the amazing people who made it happen." His richly reported narrative includes corporate intrigue, workplace hijinks, breakthrough innovation and first-class nerdiness." "A gripping account of PayPal’s origins and a vivid portrait of the geeks and contrarians who made its meteoric rise possible. ![]() appends a coda about the power of PayPal’s 'mafia' to inspire that left this reader, at least, in sobs." "An intensely magnetic chronicle. is balanced and fluid in this solo outing, making mundane projects like the creation of an online 'button,' or the dawn of CAPTCHA, somehow literary. also has a knack for the wry or lovely phrase. This narrative illustrates how this rare assemblage of talent came to work together and how their collaboration changed our world forever. He also reveals the stories of countless individuals who were left out of the front-page features and banner headlines but who were central to PayPal’s success.ĭescribed as “an intensely magnetic chronicle” ( The New York Times) and “engrossing” ( Business Insider), The Founders is a story of iteration and inventiveness-the products of which have cast a long and powerful shadow over modern life. With hundreds of interviews and unprecedented access to thousands of pages of internal material, he shows how the seeds of so much of what shapes our world today-fast-scaling digital start-ups, cashless currency concepts, mobile money transfer-were planted two decades ago. In The Founders: The Story of PayPal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley, award-winning author and biographer Jimmy Soni explores PayPal’s turbulent early days. In building what became one of the world’s foremost companies, they faced bruising competition, internal strife, the emergence of widespread online fraud, and the devastating dot-com bust of the 2000s. Before igniting the commercial space race or jumpstarting social media’s rise, they were the unknown creators of a scrappy online payments start-up called PayPal. Yet for all their influence, the story of where they first started has gone largely untold. Their names stir passions they’re as controversial as they are admired. As a group, they have driven twenty-first-century innovation and entrepreneurship. Since leaving PayPal, they have formed, funded, and advised the leading companies of our era, including Tesla, Facebook, YouTube, SpaceX, Yelp, Palantir, and LinkedIn, among many others. Today, PayPal’s founders and earliest employees are considered the technology industry’s most powerful network. “A gripping account of PayPal’s origins and a vivid portrait of the geeks and contrarians who made its meteoric rise possible” ( The Wall Street Journal)-including Elon Musk, Amy Rowe Klement, Peter Thiel, Julie Anderson, Max Levchin, Reid Hoffman, and many others whose stories have never been shared. National Bestseller * New York Times Editors’ Choice * Financial Times “Books to Read in 2022”
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