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Soni Jimmy - The Founders The Story Of Paypal And The Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley - Paperback
Soni Jimmy - The Founders The Story Of Paypal And The Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley - Paperback
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Description: 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 Sabew BEST IN Business BOOK Awards Finalist A deeply reported bracingly written (Walter Isaacson bestselling author of Code Breaker) and gripping account of Pay Pal'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 Pay Pal's founders and earliest employees are considered the technology industry's most powerful network. Since leaving Pay Pal they have formed funded and advised the leading companies of our era including Tesla Facebook You Tube Space X Yelp Palantir and Linked In 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 Pay Pal. 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 Pay Pal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley award - winning author and biographer Jimmy Soni explores Pay Pal'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 Pay Pal'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.
Title: The Founders The Story Of Paypal And The Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley
Author(s): Soni Jimmy
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Barcode: 9781501197246
Pages: 448 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 2/20/2024
Category: Entrepreneurship
Description: 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 Sabew BEST IN Business BOOK Awards Finalist A deeply reported bracingly written (Walter Isaacson bestselling author of Code Breaker) and gripping account of Pay Pal'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 Pay Pal's founders and earliest employees are considered the technology industry's most powerful network. Since leaving Pay Pal they have formed funded and advised the leading companies of our era including Tesla Facebook You Tube Space X Yelp Palantir and Linked In 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 Pay Pal. 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 Pay Pal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley award - winning author and biographer Jimmy Soni explores Pay Pal'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 Pay Pal'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.
Title: The Founders The Story Of Paypal And The Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley
Author(s): Soni Jimmy
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Barcode: 9781501197246
Pages: 448 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 2/20/2024
Category: Entrepreneurship
