Mind-manglers from the Musk mafia
The book The Founders by Jimmy Soni tells the story of the Paypal Mafia – the tech bros who founded and ran the online payments company.
The most famous of this troupe – Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and David Sacks – are now as well known for their Trumpist politics as their entrepreneurial ingenuity. Back in the day, however, what really got their blood pumping was mathematical puzzles.
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