About this episode
If you've been searching for the PayPal version of Brad Stone's, The Everything Store, then you can start with Jimmy Soni's new book, The Founders.
In this fast-paced interview with the author, we learn many smaller stories behind the bigger ones of PayPal's big obstacles it faced before its IPO:
- the lack of innovation at the big banks
- Reid Hoffman's role in what PayPal is today
- The combination of X.com and Confinity
- Peter Thiel, the reluctant CEO and the Elon Musk Palace Coupe
- Security - from innocence to frustration to superiority
- The love-hate relationship between PayPal and eBay
Finally, we hit the bookends hard--the three-hour conversation with Elon Musk and the moving and inspiring epilogue.
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