Episode · The Realignment · 2022-03-01
Books mentioned on 204 | Jimmy Soni: PayPal and the Origins of Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman, and David Sacks
Jimmy Soni, author of The Founders: The Story of PayPal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley, joins The Realignment to discuss how the PayPal mafia of Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, David Sacks, Reid Hoffman, and countless others shaped Silicon Valley.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Code Breaker
The Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson is a biographical account of CRISPR pioneer Jennifer Doudna and the revolutionary gene-editing technology that transformed modern biology.
Discussed“there has to be room in the world for walter isaacson's code breaker and for bad blood right”
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Bad Blood
Bad Blood by John Carreyrou is an investigative non-fiction book that details the rise and fraudulent collapse of Elizabeth Holmes's blood-testing startup, Theranos.
Discussed“there has to be room in the world for walter isaacson's code breaker and for bad blood right we've got to be able to keep the worst of the worst excesses and faults in check and that's the role of the fourth estate and of enterprising reporters like john who did bad blood right”
