➤ Jimmy Soni, author of ‘The Founders’ joins Rob Maurer to discuss the early days of Elon Musk, the story of x.com and PayPal, where Twitter may be headed, and more.

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Find Jimmy Soni on Twitter @jimmyasoni

0:00 Jimmy Soni & The Founders
0:41 Backstory on the book
4:38 Understanding Elon
10:22 Elon’s early days and Twitter motivation
14:25 A vision unfulfilled
16:57 Being wrong
20:20 Organizational change
22:06 Speed
24:02 Elon forced out of PayPal
34:22 Elon’s mindset and overcoming challenges
39:55 Elon’s motivation & character
47:08 Engineering vs. the world
50:31 Filtering out the noise
53:08 Misconceptions

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