Jimmy Soni's 2022 definitive account of PayPal's founding — covering Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Max Levchin, Reid Hoffman, David Sacks, Roelof Botha, and others — tracking the company from its founding through the eBay acquisition and the subsequent careers of the PayPal Mafia.
Provides the most comprehensive and well-reported history of PayPal's founding — the technical challenges of building internet payments, the merger of X.com and Confinity, the internal power struggles, the near-death fraud crisis, and the eventual eBay acquisition — making it the definitive document of the most consequential startup cohort in Silicon Valley history.
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