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The Founders Jimmy Soni

The Founders By Jimmy Soni

The Founders by Jimmy Soni


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Summary

The gripping inside story of Paypal, the company that created the digital age as we know it.

The Founders Summary

The Founders: Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and the Company that Made the Modern Internet by Jimmy Soni

'A fascinating page-turner... An indispensable guide to modern innovation and entrepreneurship.'
Walter Isaacson, no. 1 bestselling author of Steve Jobs

Perfect for readers of Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance and Zero to One by Peter Theil

Out of PayPal's ranks have come household names like Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Max Levchin and Reid Hoffman. 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. Yet for all their influence, the incredible story of where they started has gone largely untold.

In The Founders, award-winning author Jimmy Soni narrates how a once-in-a-generation collaboration turned a scrappy start-up into one of the most successful businesses of all time. Facing bruising competition, internal strife, the emergence of widespread online fraud, and the devastating dot-com bust of the 2000s, their success was anything but certain. But they would go on to change our world forever.

Informed by hundreds of interviews and unprecedented access to thousands of pages of internal material, The Founders explores how the seeds of so much of what drives the internet today were planted two decades ago.

The Founders Reviews

A fascinating page-turner about the brilliant and competitive innovators who created PayPal and went on to shape our digital world. Deeply reported and bracingly written, this book is an indispensable guide to modern innovation and entrepreneurship.

* Walter Isaacson, bestselling author of Steve Jobs *

The real secrets of Silicon Valley are the tight networks of friendship and business that propel new ideas, companies, and personalities into the world. The most consequential of these networks in recent decades is the one that began at PayPal. Here Jimmy Soni delivers a startup-hustle story for the ages, revealing why their wild entrepreneurial ride did so much to build Silicon Valley's supersized present.

* Margaret O'Mara, author of The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America *
This book is stunning in its depth and clarity, especially given the complexity of its subject matter: the intertwined early lives of some of the greatest innovators of the twenty-first century. This is the rare book that combines deep research, powerful storytelling, and wit. Anyone who wants to understand how great things get built will benefit from reading it. * Luke Burgis, author of Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life *
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. * Kati Marton, author of The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel *

About Jimmy Soni

Jimmy Soni is an author and editor who has worked for the New York Observer, the Washington Examiner and HuffPost, among others. With Rob Goodman he is the author of Rome's Last Citizen and A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age, which was nominated for a National Book Award. He lives in New York.

Table of Contents

1: Building Blocks 2: The Pitch 3: The Right Questions 4: What Matters to Me Is Winning 5: The Beamers 6: Hosed 7: Money Talks 8: If You Build It 9: The Widget Wars 10: Crash 11: The Nut House Coup 12: Buttoned-Up 13: The Sword 14: Ambition's Debt 15: Igor 16: Use the Force 17: Crime in Progress 18: Guerrillas 19: World Domination 20: Blindsided 21: Outlaws 22: And All I Got Was a T-shirt 23: Conclusion: The Floor

Additional information

GOR012263662
9781786498281
1786498286
The Founders: Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and the Company that Made the Modern Internet by Jimmy Soni
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Atlantic Books
20220224
496
N/A
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