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What I Learned from Listening to “The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley” by Jimmy Soni
I recently finished listening to the book “The Founders” by author Jimmy Soni. It was an incredibly interesting experience from which I learned a great deal. The book is a great read for entrepreneurs and details the early days of PayPal. Despite being founded in 1998, the lessons from PayPal are still relevant today. I highly recommend this book for anyone looking to start their own business. In this post, I will summarize some of the key takeaways from the book.
PayPal is an American company that operates a global online payment system. The company was founded in 1998 by a group of entrepreneurs, including Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and Max Levchin.
The idea for PayPal came about when Thiel and Levchin were working on a different project called Confinity, which was developing a secure method of transmitting money between PalmPilots. They realized that this technology could be used to create a payment system that would be faster and more…
