![]() 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. In The The Story of PayPal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley, award-winning author and biographer Jimmy Soni explores PayPal’s turbulent early days. 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. 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. Yet for all their influence, the story of where they first started has gone largely untold. Their names stir passions they’re as controversial as they are admired. As a group, they have driven twenty-first-century innovation and entrepreneurship. 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. Today, PayPal’s founders and earliest employees are considered the technology industry’s most powerful network. “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. ![]() National Bestseller * New York Times Editors’ Choice * Financial Times “Books to Read in 2022”Ī SABEW BEST IN BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS FINALIST NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2022 BY THE NEW YORKER
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