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Cryptonomicon
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A WWII codebreaker and his grandson, a 1990s data-haven engineer, are bound by a hidden Axis gold cache. The novel that made cryptography feel romantic.
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Listed on the 'favorite books' section of Friedman's personal Goodreads profile.
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“Cryptonomicon was required reading.”
Recommentions indexes the Zero to One passage where Thiel says the early PayPal team treated Stephenson's novel as required reading.
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“I read [this book] 20 years ago or so.”
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In a 2013 Reddit AMA, Winklevoss was asked about Cryptonomicon or Snow Crash and endorsed both.
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