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