Weekend Reading

Writing worth reading - 29th/30th April 2022

• The Real Origin Story of Paypal by Luke Burgis

  • “There is one moment that stayed with me but never made it into the book… I walk away from my research with real admiration for his endurance. I choose that word specifically: You can’t understand his triumphs today without appreciating his trials from 1999 to 2002. During that period, he nearly died twice, was ousted as CEO, and lost a child. And yet…”

• Clean Up On Aisle Earth by Chris Sacca

  • “…That’s a pretty fat stack. So why hasn’t all of this demand already translated into a large market? Well, there’s been nothing to buy.”

• How To Think For Yourself by Paul Graham

  • “You don't want to start a startup to do something that everyone agrees is a good idea, or there will already be other companies doing it. You have to do something that sounds to most other people like a bad idea, but that you know isn't — like writing software for a tiny computer used by a few thousand hobbyists, or starting a site to let people rent airbeds on strangers' floors.”