Between 1998 and 1999 two companies emerged on the high-tech scene with related goals – to facilitate online payments.

The story of the companies’ bitter rivalry and eventual merger into the now ubiquitous platform PayPal is the subject of an entertaining book called 'The Founders: Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and the Company that Made the Modern Internet'.

Author Jimmy Soni joined Bobby to discuss.

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