 Babinder described how "Transaction Man" provides the "top-down" worldviews of Adolf A. Berle Jr. (1895 – 1971), Michael C. Jensen (born November 30, 1939), and LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman (born August 5, 1967)—who were the epitomes of the seismic changes that they helped create—and supplements these views by "detailing the on-the-ground stories of those who lived the consequences.