Jimmy Soni on Elon Musk The PayPal Mafia and his writing process

The Darius Foroux Show: Mindset, Business, Money

In this episode, I invited Jimmy Soni, who's an author, speaker, and speechwriter, to talk about the founders of Paypal and Elon Musk, We talked about work ethics, consistency, vision, leadership, and his writing process.

The Founders by Jimmy Soni: amazon.com/dp/1501197266/

Learn more about Jimmy here: jimmysoni.com/

Thanks for listening!

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Timestamps:
00:46 - The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley
01:11 - Elon Musk & Twitter
02:24 - Zip2
02:56 - X.com
03:39 - Space X
04:16 - Consistency of vision
07:18 - Scale of ambition
08:22 - How Elon Musk put the same amount of pressure.
11:15 - Leadership
13:44 - Max Levchin's management training
16:30 - Hiring and empowering people that are better than you
17:48 - Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman, David O. Sacks
19:47 - Enough amount of confidence to get somewhere
20:04 - Sanjay Bhargava
20:59 - A company is an exercise and a recursive self-improvement
23:59 - Why is it called X.com?
26:09 - SB Master (Naming Paypal)
29:08 - Wealthfront
31:24 - First principles thinking
33:50 - Challenge your own habits
37:58 - "Money is an information system"
42:56 - On asking yourself, Why?
50:32 - Amy Klement
53:35 - Ways to convert difficulties
59:46 - David Goggins "Memoir" Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds
1:00:38 - Jimmy Soni's Writing process
1:12:43 - Seth Goldin - Purple cow
1:14:23 - Jimmy Soni's Reading habit
1:15:48 - Brad Stone's "Everything story"
1:17:37 - Walter Isaacson
1:19:07 - Relentless.com "a.k.a Amazon"
1:26:53 - Spend time and energy to do something and feel accomplished