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* Instant Bestseller * New York Times Editors' Choice * A "deeply
reported...bracingly written" (Walter Isaacson, bestselling author
of Code Breaker) and "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.
Today, PayPal's founders and earliest employees are considered the
technology industry's most powerful network. 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. As a group, they have driven
21st-century innovation and entrepreneurship. Their names stir
passions; they're as controversial as they are admired. Yet, for
all their influence, the story of where they first started has gone
largely untold. 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. 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. Their success
was anything but certain. 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.
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. 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. Described 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. This narrative illustrates how this rare
assemblage of talent came to work together and how their
collaboration changed our world forever.
'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.
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