![]() Maybe a good idea at the time, but as technology evolved so did the PayPal team, striking gold in realizing that there was a market for a payments provider for the auction site eBay, which was just taking off. Confinity initially invested heavily into a product that would allow money to be beamed between Palm Pilots. The team that developed from the merger of X.Com and Confinity (and even before) was free-wheeling, a bit reckless, and absolutely brilliant. He had guts and was willing to gamble it all. Musk, despite several twists and turns in just what product(s) his company was developing, was willing to stake a big chunk of his newly made fortune into X.Com. He had made a small fortune selling another company before his involvement in the PayPal predecessor X.Com. But this book shows you some of what he is made of. Musk obviously has garnered a lot of publicity of late, and not everybody is happy about it. This meter created PayPal, which eventually has Musk as the CEO. I was not aware of the history here, which includes the fact that PayPal was a merger of competing companies helmed separately by Peter Thiel and Elon Musk. It will show you how a start-up, even with brilliant people at the helm, is often one step away from oblivion. If you are looking for an in-depth look at any one of the individuals this is not your book. ![]() The list of “The Founders” includes Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman, and a cast of coders that were nothing short of brilliant. Who cares about PayPal? The group that created this company has become known for so much more than their work at PayPal. The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley by Jimmy SoniĪ pretty impressive book by Jimmy Soni, who manages to give us an up-close look at how PayPal was created, bringing us through the different iterations of the company.
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