{"product_id":"the-founders-the-story-of-paypal-and-the-entrepreneurs-who-shaped-silicon-valley-paperback","title":"The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJimmy Soni\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2022 BY \u003ci\u003eTHE NEW YORKER\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eNational Bestseller * \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Editors' Choice *\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times \u003c\/i\u003e\"Books to Read in 2022\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eSABEW \u003c\/i\u003eBEST IN BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS FINALIST\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eA \"deeply reported...bracingly written\" (Walter Isaacson, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eCode Breaker\u003c\/i\u003e) and \"gripping account of PayPal's origins and a vivid portrait of the geeks and contrarians who made its meteoric rise possible\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e)--including Elon Musk, Amy Rowe Klement, Peter Thiel, Julie Anderson, Max Levchin, Reid Hoffman, and many others whose stories have never been shared.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eToday, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eYet, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Founders: The Story of PayPal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDescribed as \"an intensely magnetic chronicle\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e) and \"engrossing\" (\u003ci\u003eBusiness Insider\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003ci\u003eThe Founders\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJimmy Soni is an award-winning author. His newest book, \u003ci\u003eThe Founders: The Story of PayPal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley\u003c\/i\u003e, was a national bestseller and received critical acclaim from \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e, and more. His previous book, \u003ci\u003eA Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age\u003c\/i\u003e, won the 2017 Neumann Prize, awarded by the British Society for the History of Mathematics for the best book on the history of mathematics for a general audience, and the 2019 Middleton Prize by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his daughter, Venice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 448\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.13 x 8.93 x 6.06 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 20, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51964742730029,"sku":"9781501197246","price":22.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/the-founders-the-story-of-paypal-and-the-entrepreneurs-who-shaped-silicon-valley-paperback-4100654.webp?v=1775473210","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/the-founders-the-story-of-paypal-and-the-entrepreneurs-who-shaped-silicon-valley-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}