The founders : the story of PayPal and the entrepreneurs who shaped Silicon Valley
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New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2022.
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First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
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Rapid City Public Library - Business & Economics - Adult
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LC Subjects
Biographies.
Businesspeople -- California -- Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County)
Electronic funds transfers equipment industry -- United States.
Musk, Elon.
PayPal (Firm)
Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County, Calif.) -- Economic conditions -- 21st century.
Technological innovations -- California -- Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County)
Thiel, Peter, -- 1967-
Businesspeople -- California -- Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County)
Electronic funds transfers equipment industry -- United States.
Musk, Elon.
PayPal (Firm)
Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County, Calif.) -- Economic conditions -- 21st century.
Technological innovations -- California -- Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County)
Thiel, Peter, -- 1967-
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Published
New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2022.
Format
Book
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xx, 474 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-474).
Description
"A definitive look at the origin of PayPal and its founding team--including Elon Musk, Amy Rowe Klement, Peter Thiel, Julie Anderson, Max Levchin, Reid Hoffman, and many others whose stories have never been shared. They have defined the modern world. This experience defined them."--Amazon.
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"Today, PayPal's founders and earliest employees are considered the technology industry's most powerful network. Since leaving PayPal, they have formed, funded, and advised the leading companies of our era, including Tesla, Facebook, YouTube, SpaceX, Yelp, Palantir, and LinkedIn, among many others. As a group, they have driven twenty-first-century innovation and entrepreneurship. Their names stir passions; they're as controversial as they are admired. Yet for all their influence, the story of where they first started has gone largely untold. Before igniting the commercial space race or jumpstarting social media's rise, they were the unknown creators of a scrappy online payments start-up called PayPal. In building what became one of the world's foremost companies, they faced bruising competition, internal strife, the emergence of widespread online fraud, and the devastating dot-com bust of the 2000s. Their success was anything but certain. In The Founders: The Story of PayPal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley, award-winning author and biographer Jimmy Soni explores PayPal's turbulent early days. With hundreds of interviews and unprecedented access to thousands of pages of internal material, he shows how the seeds of so much of what shapes our world today--fast-scaling digital start-ups, cashless currency concepts, mobile money transfer--were planted two decades ago. He also reveals the stories of countless individuals who were left out of the front-page features and banner headlines but who were central to PayPal's success. Described as "an intensely magnetic chronicle" (The New York Times) and "engrossing" (Business Insider), The Founders is a story of iteration and inventiveness--the products of which have cast a long and powerful shadow over modern life. This narrative illustrates how this rare assemblage of talent came to work together and how their collaboration changed our world forever." --,https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Founders/Jimmy-Soni/9781501197260
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Soni, J. (2022). The founders: the story of PayPal and the entrepreneurs who shaped Silicon Valley (First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.). Simon & Schuster.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Soni, Jimmy. 2022. The Founders: The Story of PayPal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley. Simon & Schuster.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Soni, Jimmy. The Founders: The Story of PayPal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley Simon & Schuster, 2022.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Soni, Jimmy. The Founders: The Story of PayPal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition., Simon & Schuster, 2022.
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