Episode · Dwarkesh Podcast · 2022-04-16
Dwarkesh Patel & Jimmy Soni: books mentioned on Dwarkesh Podcast
Jimmy Soni - Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and the Paypal Mafia
Jimmy Soni is the author of The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley. Watch on YouTube.
Dwarkesh Patel discussed Rome's Last Citizen by Rob Goodman and others, The Founders by Jimmy Soni, and Zero to One by Peter Thiel and others. Jimmy Soni recommended Founding Brothers by Joseph J. Ellis, and discussed The Art of the Idea by John Hunt, Wanting by Luke Burgis, and Talent by Tyler Cowen and others.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Rome's Last Citizen
Discussed“today i'm interviewing jimmy sony he's the author of rome's last citizen a biography of cato”
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The Founders
Discussed“and most recently he's the author of the founders the story of paypal and the entrepreneurs who shaped silicon valley”
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The Art of the Idea
Discussed“because in some ways like the the right person to answer the bell labs question is probably john gurtner who did sort of the quintessential book on bell apps it's called the idea factory”
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Founding Brothers
Recommended“there's a great book on that actually called founding brothers uh there was one of my like kind of texts that made me think a lot about the founders”
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Wanting
Discussed“i have had long conversations with a friend luke burgess who wrote a book called wanting and we've we've sort of talked about this a lot right”
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Zero to One
Discussed“but i think it seems like there's at least three ways in which um you know the lessons from zero to one contradict the history of paypal”
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Talent
Discussed“and maybe tyler cowan's book on talent does this because there's a whole section in there about peter”
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