Episode description

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