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Claude Shannon changed your life and you probably don't even know it. Claude is the father of information theory. He transformed information into bits and created the intellectual foundation for computers, the Internet, digital media, high-speed communication, and Artificial Inte ...  Show more

Raymond Plank founded Apache Corporation with just $250,000 in 1954. 50 years later his company was worth $50 billion. This episode examines the life and entrepreneurial philosophy of Raymond Plank through his memoir A Small Difference Rather than presenting a conventional histor ...  Show more

Jimmy Soni is the author a brand new book called "The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley" In this conversation we talk about Paypal and the individuals who made that company, and why PayPal is so important to Silicon Valley. Jimmy also s ...  Show more

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU'LL LEARN: 1:50 - Who are the members of the Paypal Mafia, their origin stories, and how PayPal came to be. 36:35 - The many trials that Paypal endured. 50:24 - The culture at Paypal and how it developed. 57:59 - Jimmy's main takeaways having personally interv ...  Show more

During its formative years in the late 1990's, Paypal attracted an extraordinary group of young entrepreneurs, who then went on to build some of the best known companies in tech. They became known as The PayPal Mafia—and Max Levchin was one of the leaders. A computer genius from ...  Show more

During its formative years in the late 1990's, Paypal attracted an extraordinary group of young entrepreneurs, who then went on to build some of the best known companies in tech. They became known as The PayPal Mafia—and Max Levchin was one of the leaders. A computer ...