I think of those things fundamentally as things worth celebrating. Why wouldn't you want to invest in somebody that sees it as a struggle? You don't have to be a pure missionary. We're talking at ait a superinteresting cultural moment, because one of the interesting responses to my book has been from people who are within tech,. People who just privately will send me messages saying, thank you for ond of not doing what many people have done with like uber or no swear. It's like, oh, look at how big bad everything is here. Like, i was far more interested and like, what does it take to turn a pixle into a button, and a button
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