Author Jimmy Soni pens ‘The Founders’, a History of PayPal

A new book titled ‘’The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley ’’, authored by Jimmy Soni and published by Simon & Schuster released on February 22, 2022.

It highlights the story of multinational digital-payments company PayPal and how it covered the journey of a start-up that turned into one of the most successful companies of all time, worth over USD 70 billion. It also offers colourful anecdotes about famous people like Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and Reid Hoffman.

The book explores 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. PayPal is a US-based multinational financial technology company, which operates an online payments system globally.