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Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley

Description: A SABEW BEST IN BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS FINALIST NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2022 BY THE NEW YORKER National Bestseller * New York Times Editors’ Choice * Financial Times “Books to Read in 2022” “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. 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 twenty-first-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.

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ISBN-13: 9781501197260

Narrative Type: Nonfiction

Original Language: English

Country/Region of Manufacture: United States

Vintage: No

Book Title: Founders : the Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley

Number of Pages: 496 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Item Height: 1.5 in

Publication Year: 2022

Topic: Entrepreneurship, E-Commerce / Internet Marketing, Science & Technology

Illustrator: Yes

Genre: Biography & Autobiography, Business & Economics

Item Weight: 23.2 Oz

Item Length: 9 in

Author: Jimmy Soni

Item Width: 6 in

Format: Hardcover

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