Jimmy Soni

 ( Year Of Birth Missing ) 

Jimmy Soni is an American author and former managing editor of The Huffington Post. He is best known for A Mind at Play, his biography of Claude Shannon and The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley.

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Background Soni was born in Toulouse, France to Indian parents from Rajasthan and was raised in Chicago, Illinois. Man of Letters Vogue India. May 25, 2015 He attended Duke University and graduated in 2007. During his time at Duke he was chairman of the Honors student and vice president of student government.

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Career Soni became the managing editor at The Huffington Post in January 2012. Previously he had worked as a strategy consultant at McKinsey and Company, as well as a speech writer at the office of the Mayor of the District of Columbia.

In 2012, Soni was named to AdWeek's "Young Influentials", a list of 20 people under 40 "who are wicked smart and rebooting your world". He was featured at a TEDx event held at Duke University in March 2012.

In May 2014, Soni transferred to India where he was in charge of launching the Huffington Post in the country. He left the company before the launch to focus on writing a book. Later, reports surfaced saying more than a book prompted his departure: internal complaints and a sexual harassment investigation of his management style were cited by current and former employees at the time. Arianna Huffington declined to comment on the matter.

In 2014, Forbes named Soni one of the 30 people under 30 years of age in the media.Bercovici, Jeff 30 Under 30: The Next Generation of Media Moguls, Machers and Mavens Forbes. May 25, 2015 That same year the New York Observer listed him as the most "poachable" tech talent.Mulshine, Molly, Jordyn Taylor, Jack Smith IV Betabeat's 2014 Most Poachable Tech Talent New York Observer. May 25, 2015 Previously, Soni was named one of Crain Communications' 40 Under Forty talents. 40 Under Forty Crain's New York Business. May 25, 2015

In 2016, Soni worked with Eric Greitens on his successful campaign for governor in Missouri.

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Written works Soni has co-authored several pieces with fellow Duke graduate Rob Goodman; their work has been featured in Politico, The Huffington Post, Business Insider, AdWeek, and The Atlantic, among others. In 2012, Thomas Dunne Books a division of St. Martin's Press, published their first book, a biography of Cato the Younger, titled Rome's Last Citizen: The Life and Legacy of Cato, Mortal Enemy of Caesar.

(2012). 9780312681234, Macmillan. ISBN 9780312681234

In 2017, Simon & Schuster published their biography of Claude Shannon, . The book received positive reviews from the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Nature and others. In an interview with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Soni explained that part of the reason he wrote A Mind at Play was that he was drawn to Shannon's personality and wanted to read a biography about him, but, "it turned out there wasn’t one."

The British Society for the History of Mathematics awarded Soni and Goodman their 2017 Neumann Prize for A Mind at Play.

In 2022, his second biography, The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley, was published by Simon & Schuster.

Jimmy Soni (2022). 9781501197260, Simon and Schuster. ISBN 9781501197260

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Bibliography

• (2026). 9780312681234, Thomas Dunne Books. ISBN 9780312681234
• (2026). 9781476766683, Simon & Schuster. ISBN 9781476766683
• (2026). 9781838661885, Phaidon Press. ISBN 9781838661885
• (2026). 9781501197260, Simon & Schuster. ISBN 9781501197260

Categories: Year Of Birth Missing, American Bloggers, American Political Commentators, American Political Writers, American Male Non-fiction Writers, Duke University Alumni, American Online Journalists, Huffpost Writers And Columnists, Living People, 21st-century American Biographers

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