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#233 Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Max Levchin (PayPal)

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And finally to Venice. To whom this book is dedicated. The idea for this project started when you were a one year old. And it was completed when you were six. The intervening five years have been among the happiest of my life.

Because you made them so. You two indulge my stories about Max Levchin and Elon Musk. And you offered wisdom of your own kind in my moments of doubt about the project. you are unlikely to remember most of what happened these last five years.

I will never forget them. Authors of books like this should usually refrain from burdening readers with lessons. the reader is smart enough to figure those out for themselves. But there's a special acknowledgments only exception. To that rule.

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