#225 Jimmy Soni on Writing the Origin Story of the Paypal Mafia

Episode 225 features Jimmy Soni, an award-winning author, and his next book, THE FOUNDERS, launched on 2/22/22, which explores the lives and early careers of the founders of PayPal. For this project, he was able to interview over 200 former PayPal employees, including Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Max Levchin, Reid Hoffman, and many others.

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About Jimmy:

Jimmy Soni is an award-winning author. His next book, THE FOUNDERS, launched on 2/22/22, explores the lives and early careers of the founders of PayPal. For this project, he was able to interview over 200 former PayPal employees, including Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Max Levchin, Reid Hoffman, and many others.

His last 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, and the Middleton Prize by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

His most recent work, Jane’s Carousel, completed with the late Jane Walentas, captured one woman’s remarkable twenty-five-year journey to restore a beloved carousel in Brooklyn Bridge Park.

He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his daughter, Venice.

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