Biographies About
Famous Tech Players

Meet the masters of innovation—coding and gaming whizzes, state-of-the-art inventors,
and Silicon Valley visionaries whose breakthrough businesses changed the world.

An incisive look into the world's most innovative tech company and the man chosen to lead it....

From Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times best-selling author Deborah Blum comes the dramatic true story of how food was made safe in the United States and the heroes, led by the inimitable Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley, who fought for change....

"An engrossing microcosm of the internet’s Wild West years" (Kirkus Reviews), award-winning journalist David Kushner tells the incredible battle between the founder of Match.com and the con man who swindled him out of the website Sex.com, resulting in an all-out war....

The team behind How Google Works returns with management lessons from legendary coach and business executive Bill Campbell, whose mentoring of some of our most successful modern entrepreneurs has helped create well over a trillion dollars in market value....

The Space Barons is the story of a group of billionaire entrepreneurs who are pouring their fortunes into the epic resurrection of the American space program....

J. Robert Oppenheimer, an iconic figure of the 20th century, was a brilliant physicist who led efforts to build an atomic bomb but later confronted the moral consequences of scientific progress....

The definitive biography of the brilliant, charismatic, and very human physicist and innovator Enrico Fermi....

The best-selling author of Inside Steve's Brain profiles Apple's legendary chief designer, Jonathan Ive....

Three years ago, 32-year-old Markus "Notch" Persson of Stockholm was an unknown and bored computer programmer. Today, he is a multi-millionaire international icon....

By his early 30s, Paul Allen was a world-famous billionaire. And that was just the beginning....

Paul Dirac was among the great scientific geniuses of the modern age....

Drawing on over 200 in-depth interviews, Valley of Genius takes listeners from the dawn of the personal computer and the Internet, through the heyday of the web, up to the very moment when our current technological reality was invented....

Dealers of Lightning is the riveting story of the legendary Xerox PARC....

Losing the Signal is a riveting story of a company that toppled global giants before succumbing to the ruthlessly competitive forces of Silicon Valley....

A New York Times technology and business reporter charts the dramatic rise of Bitcoin and the fascinating personalities who are striving to create a new global money....

Few companies have ever been as successful and as admired as Google, the company that has transformed the Internet and become an indispensable part of our lives....

As Alexis Ohanian learned when he helped to co-found the immensely popular reddit.com, the internet is the most powerful and democratic tool for disseminating information in human history....