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The Founders

The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley

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The Founders

De : Jimmy Soni
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 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 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 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 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. Akademiker & Spezialisten Geschäftsentwicklung & Unternehmertum Wirtschaft Wissenschaft & Technik

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Especially with an heartbreakingly inspiring epilogue this book is a masterpiece.the author describes with great detail in flourishing words the miraculous story of PayPal. This is a must read definitely for everyone that calls himself an aspiring entrepreneur.

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awesome istights regarding the establishment pf some of the most influencing companies in the silicon valley

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Das Buch ist insgesamt, wenn es um die Entstehung der Firma Paypal geht durchaus interessant und informativ.

Allerdings wird in dem Buch sehr eine sehr intensive Imagepflege der Gründer betrieben, im Besonderen Thiel und Musk. Die Gründer sind alle superschlau, übertalentiert, übermotiviert, aber gleichzeitig sehr menschlich. Wenn man die Aussagen im Buch mit den Nachrichten über die zwei namentlich genannten Gründer abgleicht, dann fallen schnell die Diskrepanzen auf.

Thiel der große Denker: verträgt sich für mich nicht mit der Unterstützung von Trump und seinen Projekten im Bereich Corporate Cities.
Musk der Menschliche, der in seinen Unternehmen angeblich niemanden Gefeuert hat... Hat bei Tesla mehrere Entlassungswellen veranlasst und hat eine Klage wegen sexueller Belästigung. Und wenn man anfängt sich über Zip2 zu informieren, dann kommen noch mehr Ungereimtheiten zu tage.

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