Titans of tech
Apr 03, 2022
3 minutes
by JENNY NICHOLLS AND JUDITH BARAGWANATH
THE FOUNDERS: Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and the company that made the modern internet, by Jimmy Soni ($32.99, Atlantic)
“Calling us a mafia is an insult to mafias,” joked an early PayPal board member. “A mafia is far better organised than we were.” American author Jimmy Soni’s account of the turbulent origins and unlikely survival of PayPal – a company now worth roughly US$300 billion – is surprisingly gripping, even for
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