Jun 2, 2022
Jimmy Soni is an author whose work
focuses on people who create and build interesting things—whether
theories, carousels, or companies. His books include “The Founders:
The Story of PayPal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon
Valley”, “A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the
Information Age”, and more!
You can follow Jimmy on Twitter at https://twitter.com/jimmyasoni
and go through his work on https://jimmysoni.com/
Show Notes:
- The joy of
curiosity
- How memes spread
- The Great
Reshuffle
- How internet changed the
publishing industry
- Parallels between early days of
PayPal and Bitcoin
- Money as an information
system
- Appreciating the micro-level
decisions
- Three new things about
Elon
- The Elon Effect
- How the PayPal founders brought
the best out of people
- The unknown names who were
critical to PayPal
- Claude Shannon’s financial
decisions
- Wealth is a byproduct of the
devotion to the craft
Books
Mentioned:
- The Founders; by Jimmy
Soni
- A Mind at Play; by Jimmy
Soni
- Virus of the Mind; by Richard
Brodie
- The Sovereign Individual; by
James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg
- What Works on Wall Street; Jim
O'Shaughnessy