About the book
Eric M. Jackson, a former PayPal marketing executive, gives an insider's account of the online payment company from its launch in 1999 by Peter Thiel and Max Levchin to its acquisition by eBay in 2002. The founders hoped to overhaul world currency markets. The company outlasted the dot-com bust, then had to fight lawyers, bankers, regulators, the Mafia and eBay itself. Written like a novel, the narrative traces how PayPal went from losing $10 million a month to becoming a financial powerhouse. Many of its founding employees later started companies such as YouTube, Yelp and LinkedIn, and became known as the PayPal Mafia.
Button co-founder Mike Dudas called it a tremendous book that reads more like a novel than a management guide, about a group of entrepreneurs who became some of the most influential people in technology.
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Mike Dudas (Co-founder/Button)
I thought "Paypal Wars" was just a tremendous book about a group of entrepreneurs, and it's more of a almost like a novel read than it is a business rules and management book, but you know you're reading about how this incredible business with some of the most impactful people in technology today like Peter Thiel, like Elon Musk, and Keith Rabois, Reid Hoffman, so many others were all working together and kind of battling this behemoth Ebay and creating sort of a trust based new payment economy. So really an incredible book about that era.
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