All right, I want to welcome everyone to the finale of Peter Teal's 0 to 1.

We're going to do the very last chapter, the Founders Paradox, and then we're going to do a

conclusion, which is titled

stagnation or singularity.

So I'm gonna run through this,

we'll get done with this,

and then start up on a new book in a couple days.

All right, let's get this done.

The Founders Paradox.

Of the six people who started PayPal, four had built bombs in high school.

Five were just 23 years old or younger.

Four of us had been born outside the United States.

Three had escaped here from communist countries.

Japan from China, Luke Nozick from Poland, and Max Levchin from Soviet Ukraine.

Building bombs was not what kids normally did in those countries at that time.

The six of us could have been seen as eccentric.

My first ever conversation with Luke was about how he just signed up for

cryonics to be frozen upon death in hope of medical resurrection. Max claimed to be

without a country and proud of it. His family was put into diplomatic limbo when the

U.S.S.S. collapsed while they were escaping from the U.S. Russ Simmons had escaped

from a trailer park at the top to the top math and science magnet school in Illinois.

Only Ken Howry fit the stereotype of a privileged American childhood.

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