When a California hedge fund manager and a Ukrainian engineer launched an online payment service in 1999, they dreamed of overhauling the world’s currency markets and improving the lives of millions. Their start-up survived the dot-com bust a year later only to find itself besieged by lawyers, bankers, Mafia, and even the auction site eBay—turning their quest to make Internet history into a desperate struggle for survival.

This award-winning narrative by entrepreneur and former PayPal insider Eric M. Jackson is the ultimate adventure in capitalism. Written like a novel, The PayPal Wars reveals how the online payment company went from bleeding $10 million per month to becoming a financial powerhouse.

“Kept me up all night reading … the best description of ‘business strategy’ unfolding in a world changing at warp speed.”
    – Tom Peters, author, In Search of Excellence

“Reads like a spy novel.”
   – Reason Magazine

“An absorbing insider’s story.”
    – The Washington Times

Winner, Business Book of the Year
    - Writers Notes Book Awards