Jimmy Soni

Jimmy Soni is an award-winning author. His newest book, The Founders: The Story of PayPal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley , was a national bestseller and received critical acclaim from The New York Times , Wall Street Journal , New Yorker , The Economist , Financial Times , and more. His previous book, A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age , won the 2017 Neumann Prize, awarded by the British Society for the History of Mathematics for the best book on...See more

Jimmy Soni is an award-winning author. His newest book, The Founders: The Story of PayPal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley , was a national bestseller and received critical acclaim from The New York Times , Wall Street Journal , New Yorker , The Economist , Financial Times , and more. His previous book, A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age , won the 2017 Neumann Prize, awarded by the British Society for the History of Mathematics for the best book on the history of mathematics for a general audience, and the 2019 Middleton Prize by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his daughter, Venice. See less