Jimmy Soni (@jimmyasoni), author of The Founders: The Story of PayPal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley, joins Ben Casnocha on this episode to discuss:

- How diversity and variety of backgrounds and opinions helped PayPal become successful.

- The fact that PayPal’s leading product was not solving a problem that they had set out to solve, but rather a problem they discovered along the way.

- The importance of sitting with your customers and really understanding their perspective and their problems.

- What he learned about Peter Thiel, Max Levchin, Elon Musk, Reid Hoffman, and David Sacks.

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