The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley

The Founders is a gripping account of PayPal's origins, offering a vivid portrait of the geeks and contrarians who made its meteoric rise possible.

From Elon Musk to Amy Rowe Klement, Peter Thiel, Julie Anderson, Max Levchin, Reid Hoffman, and many others whose stories have never been shared, this book reveals how the founders and earliest employees of PayPal drove twenty-first-century innovation and entrepreneurship.

Despite their influence, the story of where they first started has gone largely untold.

In building one of the world's foremost companies, they faced bruising competition, internal strife, online fraud, and the devastating dot-com bust of the 2000s.

With hundreds of interviews and unprecedented access to thousands of pages of internal material, The Founders explores PayPal's turbulent early days, showing how the seeds of so much of what followed were sown.

This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of Silicon Valley and the entrepreneurs who shaped it.