The Founders (UK)

written, this book is an indispensable guide to modern innovation

and entrepreneurship.'

Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs

'A start-up hustle story for the ages, revealing why [the PayPal

founders'] wild entrepreneurial ride did so much to build

Silicon Valley's supersized present.'

Margaret O'Mara, author of The Code: Silicon Valley and the

Remaking of America

'Short of getting into a time machine, it's hard to imagine how

you'd get closer to capturing PayPal's rise - and understanding

the lives of its creators. A brilliant book chock full of wisdom and

lessons for business and life.'

Nir Eyal, author of Hooked: How to Control Your Attention

and Choose Your Life

Out of PayPal's ranks have come household names like Elon

Musk, Peter Thiel, Max Levchin and Reid Hoffman. Since leaving

PayPal, they have formed, funded, and advised the leading

companies of our era, including Tesla, Facebook, YouTube,

SpaceX, Yelp, Palantir, and LinkedIn, among many others.

Yet for all their influence, the incredible story of where

they started has gone largely untold.

In The Founders, award-winning author Jimmy Soni narrates how a

once-in-a-generation collaboration turned a scrappy start-up into

one of the most successful businesses of all time. Facing bruising

competition, internal strife, the emergence of widespread online

fraud, and the devastating dot-com bust of the 2000s, their

success was anything but certain. But they would go on to

change our world forever.

Informed by hundreds of interviews and unprecedented access to

thousands of pages of internal material, The Founders explores

how the seeds of so much of what drives the internet today were

planted two decades ago.