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The founders : the story of PayPal and the entrepreneurs who shaped Silicon Valley

Title

The founders : the story of PayPal and the entrepreneurs who shaped Silicon Valley / Jimmy Soni.

Author

Soni, Jimmy

Publication

New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2022.
©2022

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Description

xx, 474 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color); 24 cm

Summary

"A definitive look at the origin of PayPal and its founding team--including 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."--Amazon.
"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." --

Subject

Genre/Form

Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-474).

Contents

Part 1: Sicilian defense -- Building blocks -- The pitch -- The right questions -- "What matters to me is winning" -- The beamers -- Hosed -- Money talks -- Part 2: Bad bishop -- If you build it -- The widget wars -- Crash -- The nut house coup -- Buttoned-up -- The sword -- Ambition's debt -- Part 3: Doubled rooks -- Igor -- Use the force -- Crime in progress -- Guerrillas -- World domination -- Blindsided -- Outlaws -- And all I got was a t-shirt -- Conclusion: the floor.

Call Number

JFE 22-2943

ISBN

9781501197260
1501197266

OCLC

1162986521

Author

Soni, Jimmy, author.

Title

The founders : the story of PayPal and the entrepreneurs who shaped Silicon Valley / Jimmy Soni.

Publisher

New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2022.

Copyright Date

Edition

First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-474).

Research Call Number

JFE 22-2943

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