Episode · The Realignment · 2022-03-01
Jimmy Soni on The Realignment #204: books mentioned
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.
Saagar Enjeti discussed The Founders by Jimmy Soni. Jimmy Soni discussed The Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson and others and Bad Blood by John Carreyrou.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Founders
Discussed“that's part of the reason i really love talking to jimmy about this book”
Where to get it
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The Code Breaker
Discussed“there has to be room in the world for walter isaacson's code breaker and for bad blood right”
Where to get it
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Bad Blood
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”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing The Founders
“he's the author of the founders the story of paypal and the entrepreneurs who shaped silicon valley sagar who are those founders”
Plugged The Founders
“but i i think that we need to my book i would actually argue is not not really a tech book uh it's a book about a group of people who come together to solve a big problem”