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.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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American Kingpin
American Kingpin by Nick Bilton is a gripping non-fiction book that tells the true story of Ross Ulbricht and the rise and fall of the notorious online black market known as 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
Discussed“because what really happens is and as I say in hatching Twitter and and no one knew this I was like I had to talk to all these different people to kind of pin it together”
Where to get it
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez is a landmark masterpiece of magical realism that chronicles the multi-generational history of the Buendía family in the fictional town of Macondo.
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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