Jimmy Soni — Make Things, and Be Playful (EP.108)
Infinite Loops
English - June 02, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 54.7 MBInvesting Business Entrepreneurship Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Jimmy Soni is an author whose work focuses on people who create and build interesting things—whether theories, carousels, or companies. His books include “The Founders: The Story of PayPal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley”, “A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age”, and more!
You can follow Jimmy on Twitter at https://twitter.com/jimmyasoni and go through his work on https://jimmysoni.com/
Show Notes:
How memes spread
The Great Reshuffle
How internet changed the publishing industry
Parallels between early days of PayPal and Bitcoin
Money as an information system
Appreciating the micro-level decisions
Three new things about Elon
The Elon Effect
How the PayPal founders brought the best out of people
The unknown names who were critical to PayPal
Claude Shannon’s financial decisions
Wealth is a byproduct of the devotion to the craft
Books Mentioned:
A Mind at Play; by Jimmy Soni
Virus of the Mind; by Richard Brodie
The Sovereign Individual; by James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg
What Works on Wall Street; Jim O'Shaughnessy