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

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! --- Receive weekly tips to become Wise & Wealthy Wise & Wealthy is a weekly newsletter full of proven ideas to become smarter and wealthier. I send this short email every Monday and every other Thursday. Join for free here: dariusforoux.com/ --- 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