Episode · My First Million · 2025-02-26
Books mentioned on We talk to the guy who knows Silicon Valley’s darkest secrets
Episode 680: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.
Shaan Puri discussed American Kingpin by Nick Bilton and Hatching Twitter by Nick Bilton. Nick Bilton discussed One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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American Kingpin
American Kingpin by Nick Bilton is a true-crime non-fiction book that details the rise and fall of Ross Ulbricht and his dark web marketplace, the Silk Road.
Discussed“Sam has been telling me about a book for probably 10 years in a row and I finally got around to reading it this year and the book is American kingpen”
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Hatching Twitter
Hatching Twitter by Nick Bilton provides a dramatic behind-the-scenes account of the conflicts, leadership struggles, and early founding days of the popular social media platform.
Discussed“it's a it's a page Turner and the author Nick Bilton not only wrote that but he wrote hatching Twitter and a bunch of other stuff”
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez is a landmark novel that chronicles the multi-generational history of the Buendía family in the fictional town of Macondo and stands as a masterwork of magical realism.
Discussed“the amount of research that people like Gabriel Garcia mer C put into 100 Years of Solitude and like into chest it's like when you read these they they're not telling you all this they're just telling you a story”
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