Sacks: Dream Crew partnered to adapt 'The Founders' into TV series
David Sacks · E160: 2024 Predictions! Markets, tech, politics, and more · Jan 6, 2024 · at 1:15:20
David Sachs, partner at Craft Ventures and former PayPal COO, discloses a production deal to adapt Jimmy Soni's book about PayPal into a show.
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“I optioned this book along with Jack Selby, who's another PayPal mafia alum who has a film company. And so we've optioned this and we have just made a deal with Drake's company called Dream Crew to turn this into some sort of television series.”
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