Jimmy Soni Keynote Speaker

Jimmy Soni is a best-selling and award-winning author.

His latest book, ‘The Founders: The Story of PayPal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley‘, was a debut best-seller and has earned praise from the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Economist, among many others. It was described as “an intensely magnetic chronicle” (The New York Times) and “engrossing” (Business Insider). With exclusive interviews with Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman, and many others, Soni explores PayPal’s turbulent early days and the shaping of a generation of technological talent. “Deeply reported and bracingly written, this book is an indispensable guide to modern innovation and entrepreneurship,” notes Walter Isaacson, New York Times bestselling author of Code Breaker. 

Soni’s 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 Middleton Prize by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). The book explored the life and times of Dr. Claude Shannon, founder of the field of information theory and one of the 20th century’s forgotten geniuses. Fortune magazine called the book a “charming account of one of the twentieth century’s most distinguished scientists…Readers will enjoy this portrait of a modern-day Da Vinci.”

Jimmy Soni explores innovation, curiosity, and creativity through his books, which have won over audiences around the world, and he speaks regularly before corporate and academic audiences. He started his career at McKinsey & Company, and he lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his daughter, Venice.