And so I started thinking, you know, this is this, this whole idea of, of clusters of talent.
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Bell Labs was one of these places that also dispelled the myth of the lone creative genius, because they had a lot of geniuses in one place at one time for a series of decades, not just like a short period, this was, you know, a decent chunk of the 20th century. You know, it’s interesting, I hit my last book was about a mathematician and he worked at his name is Claude Shannon, and he worked at Bell Laboratories. I appreciate you picking up on on that specific thing that this this dispels the myth of one person in a garage, like hacking these companies together, assembling it together. But what first attracted you to the idea of writing a book about PayPal? And why did you decide to write a book about the founders of this one company, the various founders, rather than just one individual like Peter Thiel? Or an Elon Musk, for example? So one thing is you had all these different options of how you could write and get into this topic. And one of the things are just reading through your book, the founders, one thing that links his book and yours is they both completely blow out of the water, the idea of the lone creative genius, the instead look at kind of innovation, entrepreneurship through this lens of either creative peers or collaborative teams. And he was talking about the power law is great book about Silicon Valley, venture capital firms. So you reached out to me, we connected because we had Sebastian Mallaby on the show. Welcome to the SuperCreativity Podcast, Jimmy Soni.įor More of SuperCreativity Podcast By James TaylorĪrtificial Intelligence Generated Transcriptīelow is a machine-generated transcript and therefore the transcript may contain errors. Jimmy Soni’s previous book, A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age, 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. He also reveals the stories of countless individuals and hidden figures who were left out of the front-page features and banner headlines but who were central to PayPal’s success. 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. Yet for all their influence, the story of where they first started has gone largely untold.
Members of the PayPal Mafia as it’s sometimes called, and who include Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Max Levchin, and Reid Hoffman, have gone on to drive innovation and entrepreneurship in the 21st Century. What do all of these companies have in common? They were all formed, funded, or advised by a small group of men who founded or worked at one company, PayPal.
Tesla, Facebook, YouTube, SpaceX, Yelp, Palantir and LinkedIn. The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley With Jimmy Soni
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