175 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Arthur C. Clarke's 1968 science fiction novel — written simultaneously with Stanley Kubrick's film — about humanity's evolutionary encounter with alien intelligence through the monolith — the most philosophically ambitious science fiction novel.
Long-form business and technology podcast hosted by Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal — which covers the complete history of major companies (Apple, NVIDIA, Berkshire Hathaway, Costco, etc.) in 4–8 hour episodes — the highest-quality business history podcast.
Technology product professional referenced in the Lenny's Podcast context.
American podcast co-hosted by 'the besties' — Jason Calacanis, Chamath Palihapitiya, David Sacks, and David Friedberg — covering technology investing, economics, and politics from a Silicon Valley venture capital perspective.
Andrew Grove was a Hungarian-American businessman and engineer who served as CEO of Intel and drove the company to dominance in the microprocessor industry.
Hungarian-American businessman — co-founder and CEO of Intel — who coined 'Only the Paranoid Survive' and created the OKR management system — the most operationally excellent technology CEO of the semiconductor era.
Hungarian-American businessman who survived the Holocaust, fled Communism, and became Intel's third employee — rising to CEO (1987–98) — turning it into the world's dominant semiconductor company; he wrote High Output Management and Only the Paranoid Survive — among the most influential management books ever written.
American technology investor and writer — former hedge fund manager — Wall Street Journal columnist — author of Wall Street Meat, Running Money, and Eat People — who writes about technology and economic disruption for general audiences.
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak's Cupertino technology company — creator of the Mac, iPod, iPhone, iPad, and App Store — the first company to reach $1 trillion in market capitalization — defining the integration of hardware, software, and services.
Apple's podcast hosting and distribution platform — launched in 2005 as part of iTunes — which established the RSS-based open podcast ecosystem and remained the dominant podcast directory for 15 years.
A book examining Apple's complex and high-stakes business relationship with China — covering manufacturing, market dependence, regulatory pressure, and the geopolitical risks of Apple's deep integration with Chinese supply chains and consumer market.
British science fiction author — author of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Childhood's End, and Rendezvous with Rama — who proposed the geostationary satellite concept — one of the Big Three of science fiction (with Asimov and Heinlein).
American engineer and writer — who writes on energy systems, industrial technology, and engineering economics with unusual depth — a practicing engineer who produces high-quality technical writing for general audiences.
Tyler Cowen's 2013 argument — that technology is bifurcating labor markets into high-skill workers who collaborate effectively with machines and low-skill workers who are displaced by them — one of the first serious books about AI and labor polarization.
American public safety technology company (formerly TASER International) founded by Rick Smith — which makes Taser weapons and body cameras for law enforcement — and which has a stated mission of making lethal weapons obsolete.
American technologist and designer who invented the infinite scroll interaction pattern and subsequently became a critic of attention-harvesting technology and co-founded the Center for Humane Technology with Tristan Harris.
American entrepreneur and venture capitalist who co-founded Opsware (sold to HP for $1.6B) and co-founded Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) with Marc Andreessen — author of The Hard Thing About Hard Things, the most widely read management book for startup founders.
American technology analyst — author of Stratechery newsletter — who created the 'Aggregation Theory' framework for understanding how internet platforms aggregate value — the most widely read independent technology analyst.
Ben Tossell's daily AI newsletter covering AI news, tools, and developments — one of the most widely read AI newsletters.
Carl Sagan's posthumous 1997 essay collection — on science, technology, environmental concerns, and the meaning of human existence — including his final essay written while dying of cancer.
American technologist who co-founded Snap Inc. with Evan Spiegel and Reggie Brown at Stanford — serving as CTO — building the technical infrastructure for Snapchat's ephemeral messaging, Stories, and Spectacles hardware products.
American technology journalist — Bloomberg senior executive editor — author of The Everything Store (on Amazon) and Amazon Unbound — the most thorough journalist chronicler of Amazon and Jeff Bezos.
Aldous Huxley's 1932 dystopian novel — set in a pleasure-engineered society where stability is maintained through conditioning, soma, and the elimination of discomfort — the alternative dystopia to 1984 (pleasure vs. pain as control).
A thriller novel referenced in the Lenny's Podcast context — likely involving technology or startup themes.
American technologist who co-created Google Maps, co-founded FriendFeed (acquired by Facebook), served as Facebook CTO, became Salesforce co-CEO, chaired Twitter's board during the Musk acquisition, and co-founded Sierra (enterprise AI) — one of the most technically decorated executives in Silicon Valley.
American technologist — former President of FTX US — who left FTX before the collapse and has spoken publicly about the warning signs he observed — co-founder of Architect Financial Technologies.
American entrepreneur — co-founder and CEO of Coinbase — who built the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the US and took it public in 2021 — a leading advocate for cryptocurrency regulation that enables innovation.
American construction engineer and writer — author of Construction Physics newsletter — the most technically rigorous writer on why construction productivity has stagnated for 50 years and what could change it.
Technology executive referenced in the Lenny's Podcast context — associated with product leadership in the cryptocurrency or technology space.
American financial writer and analyst — author of The Diff newsletter (one of the highest-quality finance and technology newsletters) — whose writing on financial history, technology companies, and economic dynamics is considered among the most intellectually serious financial commentary available.
American business executive and politician — CEO of Hewlett-Packard (1999–2005) — Republican presidential candidate (2016) — who was the first woman to lead a Fortune 20 company and whose HP tenure (Compaq merger, layoffs) remains controversial.
Australian-American physicist and entrepreneur — former JPL scientist — who writes about space, energy, and technology with unusual analytical depth — co-founder of Terraform Industries (using solar power to produce synthetic natural gas from air).
Sri Lankan-Canadian venture capitalist who ran growth at Facebook (2007–11) — building it from 70M to 750M users — and who founded Social Capital, became prominent through All-In Podcast, and has been a vocal contrarian investor and technology commentator.
OpenAI's consumer-facing large language model interface launched in November 2022, which reached 100 million users in two months — the fastest consumer product adoption in history — and triggered a global wave of AI investment, competition, and policy debate.
Individual referenced by first name in the Lenny's Podcast context — likely a product or tech professional guest.
American quantitative hedge fund founded by David Shaw in 1988 — which uses computational methods to find market inefficiencies — and which was Jeff Bezos's employer before he left to found Amazon.
American economic historian — Harvard — author of The Wealth and Poverty of Nations — who argued that culture (specifically the Protestant work ethic and technological curiosity) rather than geography explains economic development differences.
Technology product executive referenced in the Lenny's Podcast context — known for product leadership at Google and other tech companies.
American scholar of religion at UNCW who wrote American Cosmic — examining UAP/UFO phenomena through the lens of religious studies, arguing that the UFO phenomenon functions as a contemporary religion, and exploring the relationship between technology, belief, and the sacred.
American pizza delivery chain founded in 1960 — which reinvented itself from a declining pizza brand into a technology company that happens to sell pizza — through its investment in delivery tracking, digital ordering, and franchisee support systems.
American podcaster and writer — host of the Dwarkesh Podcast — who has conducted the most substantively deep AI and technology interviews of any podcaster — who publishes essays on AI and economics on Substack.
Long-form intellectual interview podcast hosted by Dwarkesh Patel — covering AI, science, history, and economics through 2–4 hour deep-dive conversations with guests including Jensen Huang, Dario Amodei, Ilya Sutskever, Satya Nadella, Andrej Karpathy, Terence Tao, and many others.
South African-American entrepreneur — co-founder of PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, and The Boring Company — world's wealthiest person at various points — who simultaneously leads multiple frontier technology companies and acquired Twitter (2022, renamed X).
American technologist who was CEO of Novell, then CEO of Google (2001–11), Executive Chairman of Alphabet (2011–17) — widely credited with bringing adult supervision to Google's founders and scaling it into a global company — now active in AI policy and national security technology.
American entrepreneur — co-founder and CEO of Snap Inc. — who created Snapchat as a disappearing photo app and then pivoted to a camera company — the youngest person ever to take a company public at a $20B+ valuation.
Every is a bundle of newsletters and analysis covering technology, AI, business, and culture — founded by Dan Shipper and Nathan Baschez — notable for its AI-first editorial approach and its model of bundling independent writers.
Engineering executive at Shopify — VP and Head of Engineering — known for engineering culture, developer productivity, and building Shopify's engineering organization at scale.
American writer and economist — author of Wealth and Poverty (the Reaganomics bible), Microcosm, Telecosm, and Life After Google — whose work on supply-side economics and technology forecasting has been both prescient and wildly wrong at various points.
James Wallace and Jim Erickson's 1992 biography of Bill Gates — covering his early life, the founding of Microsoft, the IBM deal, and his competitive business practices — one of the first serious accounts of Gates before Microsoft's full dominance.
American entrepreneur and CEO of Aura — a consumer digital security and identity protection company — who previously founded Endurance International Group, building one of the largest web hosting companies in the world.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's account of transforming Microsoft's culture — from the combative, stack-ranked 'know-it-all' culture of the Ballmer era to a 'learn-it-all' growth-mindset culture.
Yuval Noah Harari's 2015 speculative history of humanity's future — arguing that as humanity solves famine, plague, and war, we will turn to new projects of godlike technological enhancement — the most widely read speculative history of technology and human enhancement.
A podcast focused on how practitioners use AI tools and integrate AI into their workflows.
Catherine Price's 2018 practical guide to reducing smartphone dependency — combining the behavioral science of phone addiction with a 30-day plan for establishing a healthier relationship with technology.
American internet entrepreneur and investor — co-host of the All-In Podcast — founder of LAUNCH (venture capital) — who built Silicon Alley Reporter, Weblogs Inc., and Mahalo — one of the most prominent voices in tech media.
American entertainment executive who ran Disney Studios in the 1980s renaissance (The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Lion King), co-founded DreamWorks with Spielberg and Geffen, and later founded Quibi — the failed short-form video platform.
Taiwanese-American entrepreneur — co-founder and CEO of NVIDIA — who built NVIDIA from a gaming GPU company into the foundational infrastructure company of the AI revolution — whose H100 and A100 chips became the 'shovels in the AI gold rush.'
American game designer and professor at Carnegie Mellon — author of The Art of Game Design — who created the 'lenses' framework for game design analysis.
American technology entrepreneur and conservative intellectual — founder of Applied Predictive Technologies (sold to MasterCard) — senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute — author of Uncontrolled (on the limits of social science and the case for policy experimentation).
American biographer and journalist — co-author of A Mind at Play (biography of Claude Shannon) and author of The Founders (on PayPal) — who writes intellectual biographies of technology figures.
American entrepreneur and venture capitalist who co-founded Palantir Technologies (data analytics for government and enterprise), founded 8VC (venture fund), and co-founded Addepar (wealth management platform) — a prominent figure in the technolibertarian right-wing intellectual movement.
American actor and filmmaker — Third Rock from the Sun (childhood), Inception, 500 Days of Summer, The Dark Knight Rises — founder of HitRECord (collaborative creative platform) — who has parlayed an acting career into a broader engagement with internet creativity.
American entrepreneur who co-founded Instagram with Mike Krieger — serving as CEO — building it from a photo-sharing app into one of the most influential social media platforms in history; sold to Facebook for $1 billion in 2012 and left Facebook in 2018 over disagreements with Zuckerberg about editorial independence.
American computer scientist who co-founded Google with Sergey Brin — developing the PageRank algorithm that powered the world's best search engine — and who led Google as CEO (2011–15) and Alphabet as CEO (2015–19) while guiding the company's expansion into AI, autonomous vehicles, and life sciences.
American internet entrepreneur who co-founded Wikipedia with Jimmy Wales and subsequently left to found Citizendium — and who has become a prominent critic of Wikipedia's neutrality problems and big tech's control of information infrastructure.
Lenny Rachitsky's weekly newsletter on product management, growth, and startups — launched in 2019 as a Substack and growing to one of the most-subscribed paid newsletters — featuring data-driven frameworks, benchmarks, and tactical product advice.
Lenny Rachitsky's weekly podcast featuring interviews with top product managers, founders, and growth practitioners — one of the most popular business podcasts in the world — covering product strategy, growth, leadership, and startups.
American cultural historian who wrote definitive studies of cities, technology, and civilization — arguing that the modern city and machine civilization had disrupted the organic relationship between humans and their environment.
Lex Fridman's long-form interview podcast — covering AI, science, philosophy, history, and culture — with guests including Elon Musk, Vladimir Putin, and leading scientists — one of the most downloaded podcasts globally.
American entrepreneur and venture capitalist — co-creator of Mosaic (first web browser) — co-founder of Netscape — co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) — the most influential venture capitalist of the last 15 years — author of the Techno-Optimist Manifesto.
American entrepreneur — co-founder and CEO of Meta (formerly Facebook) — who built the world's most-used social media platform from a Harvard dorm room — controls Meta through supervoting shares — and has pivoted Meta toward AI and the metaverse.
American business executive who served as CEO of eBay from 1998 to 2008, growing it from 30 employees to 15,000, and later as CEO of Hewlett-Packard.
Product management professional referenced in the Lenny's Podcast context — working in tech growth and product roles.
Brazilian-American engineer who co-founded Instagram with Kevin Systrom — serving as CTO — building the technical infrastructure for one of the most successful mobile photo-sharing apps in history before selling to Facebook for $1 billion and later leaving.
Aziz Ansari and sociologist Eric Klinenberg's 2015 examination of modern dating — combining sociological research with comedy — exploring how technology has transformed romantic search and the psychology of modern relationships.
American writer and researcher — formerly at GitHub — author of Working in Public (on the economics of open source software) — who writes about the political economy of digital public goods.
American entrepreneur — former CEO of GitHub (2018–2021) — co-founder of Xamarin (sold to Microsoft) — co-founder of the AI Grant fellowship — who funded the Vesuvius Challenge (successfully decoded Herculaneum scrolls using AI) — one of the most intellectually adventurous tech figures.
American streaming entertainment company founded by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph in 1997 — which disrupted video rental, cable television, and cinema by creating the on-demand streaming model and then the prestige TV production model.
American venture capitalist and technology investor — previously at Shasta Ventures — known for consumer and marketplace investments and for writing about product and growth.
Sarah Guo and Elad Gil's podcast interviewing AI researchers, founders, and investors — focusing on the cutting edge of AI development and its implications.
Finnish telecommunications company founded in 1865 — which dominated the global mobile phone market in the 2000s with over 40% market share before being completely disrupted by Apple's iPhone and the smartphone revolution.
Andrew Grove's 1996 account of strategic inflection points — moments when the forces shaping a business change so fundamentally that management must either adapt or die — using Intel's near-death experience from Japanese memory chip competition as the primary case.
Irish-American entrepreneur — co-founder and CEO of Stripe — who built the internet's payment infrastructure while simultaneously funding science (Fast Grants, Arc Institute, Convergent Research) and producing unusually high-quality public intellectual work on progress, science stagnation, and technology.
American software engineer and writer — at Stripe — who writes under the handle 'patio11' on HackerNews and his blog — whose writing on software business, pricing, and Japan is some of the most practically useful in tech.
American digital payments company co-founded by Max Levchin and Peter Thiel as Confinity in 1998 — merged with Elon Musk's X.com in 2000 — which created the dominant internet payment platform and whose alumni (the PayPal Mafia) went on to found or fund Tesla, SpaceX, YouTube, LinkedIn, Yelp, Yammer, and more.
American entrepreneur who co-founded the XPRIZE Foundation and Singularity University — and whose Abundance and The Future Is Faster Than You Think make the techno-optimist case for exponential technology progress solving humanity's greatest challenges.
German-American entrepreneur and investor — co-founder of PayPal, first outside investor in Facebook, founder of Palantir and Founders Fund — whose book Zero to One is the most widely read text on startup theory.
Brad Jacobs's technology-enabled building products distribution company — his sixth company — applying the same formula of finding a fragmented industry (building products distribution) and using technology and capital to consolidate it.
American entrepreneur who co-founded LinkedIn and developed the Blitzscaling framework — a theory of hyper-growth prioritizing speed over efficiency to win winner-take-all markets.
Michael Moritz's 2009 updated account of Apple's history — expanding The Little Kingdom to cover Apple's Jobs-less years, its near-death experience, and Jobs's return and the iPod revolution — with the perspective of Moritz having become a major VC in the interim.
American venture capitalist who was an early mentor to Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook investor, and subsequently became one of tech's most prominent critics.
Indian-American businessman — CEO of Microsoft (2014–) — who transformed Microsoft from a PC-software company into a cloud-computing company (Azure), reversed its declining relevance, and made the decisive bet on OpenAI — the most successful large-company transformation in technology.
American cartoonist and author — creator of the Dilbert comic strip — author of Win Bigly (on persuasion and Trump) — who predicted Trump's 2016 victory early based on persuasion analysis and then made increasingly extreme statements that ended in Dilbert's cancellation in 2023.
Individual referenced by first name in the Lenny's Podcast context — most likely Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google.
Swedish music streaming company founded by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon in 2006 — which became the world's largest audio streaming platform with 600M+ users — fundamentally restructuring the music industry's economics.
American technologist referenced in discussions of technology and startups on the Dwarkesh Podcast.
American science writer who wrote Where Good Ideas Come From, The Ghost Map, How We Got to Now, and Emergence — examining how innovation, cities, epidemiology, and complex systems work — one of the most popular science writers of the 21st century.
American entrepreneur — co-founder and CEO of Reddit — who built one of the most trafficked websites in the world and returned to lead it through its 2024 IPO.
American entrepreneur — co-founder of Apple, NeXT, and Pixar — whose second stint at Apple (1997–2011) produced the iMac, iPod, iPhone, iPad, and App Store — widely considered the most consequential product designer in history.
Ben Thompson's daily technology business analysis newsletter — the most widely read paid technology newsletter — which invented the modern technology newsletter business model and the Aggregation Theory framework for platform analysis.
Nick Bostrom's 2014 philosophical analysis of artificial superintelligence — arguing that a superintelligent AI would be dangerous not through malice but through instrumental convergence (any goal tends to require self-preservation, resource acquisition, and goal-content integrity) — the founding document of mainstream AI safety concern.
Jonathan Haidt's 2024 book — arguing that smartphone adoption and social media use after 2012 caused the global mental health crisis among adolescents — with specific recommendations for phone-free schools, delayed social media access, and free-range childhood.
Jesse Schell's 2008 textbook on game design — presenting 113 'lenses' (analytical perspectives) through which to analyze and improve games — the most comprehensive and widely used game design textbook.
Nathan Labenz and Erik Torenberg's podcast exploring the AI revolution — with deep-dive conversations with researchers, founders, and practitioners about AI capabilities and implications.
Eva Dou's 2024 account of Huawei — China's most powerful technology company — covering its founding by former PLA officer Ren Zhengfei, its global expansion, and the US government's campaign to contain it as a national security threat.
Biography or account of DeepMind and the AI revolution — tracing the founding and development of DeepMind from a London startup to a Google-owned AI research powerhouse — covering Demis Hassabis, Shane Legg, and Mustafa Suleyman.
Walter Isaacson's history of the digital revolution — arguing that it was primarily a collaborative achievement, tracing the people and partnerships from Ada Lovelace to the internet.
Lex Fridman's long-form interview podcast featuring scientists, engineers, philosophers, athletes, and public figures in conversations typically running 3–8 hours.
Michael Moritz's 1984 account of Apple Computer's founding and early years — written from direct access to Jobs, Wozniak, and other key figures — which is the most detailed account of Apple's founding available from a contemporary observer.
An AI newsletter focused on making AI accessible to non-technical audiences — covering AI news, tools, and practical applications.
Ashlee Vance's 2024 biography of Jensen Huang and Nvidia — covering the company's founding, near-death experiences, strategic pivots, and ultimate triumph as the dominant AI computing company — documenting what Jensen calls the Nvidia way of working.
Brad Stone's 2017 account of how Uber and Airbnb transformed their industries — tracing the founding stories, growth, and early battles with regulators of the two most consequential sharing economy startups.
David Landes's 1998 account of global economic development — arguing that cultural factors (curiosity, work ethic, property rights, rule of law) rather than geography explain why some nations are rich and others poor — the most prominent counter to Diamond's geographic determinism.
Product executive at LinkedIn — Chief Product Officer — referenced in the Lenny's Podcast context.
Technology executive who served as CEO of Automattic (the company behind WordPress.com) — referenced in the context of WordPress and Automattic's distributed company model.
President of Estonia (2006–2016) — who oversaw Estonia's transformation into the world's most digitally advanced country (e-voting, digital identity, X-Road) — a New Jersey-born Estonian who grew up in Swedish exile before returning to lead a former Soviet republic.
American technologist and former Google design ethicist who became the leading advocate for humane technology design — arguing that social media companies deliberately exploit psychological vulnerabilities.
Public research university in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois — one of America's leading engineering and computer science schools — whose alumni include Marc Andreessen (Netscape, a16z), YouTube co-founders, and numerous other technology company founders.
A book on the dysfunction of modern institutions and systems — referenced in the Lenny's Podcast context.
Robert Pirsig's 1974 philosophical novel — framed as a motorcycle trip — which explores the concept of Quality as a foundational metaphysical category, arguing that the split between romantic (humanistic) and classical (technical) understanding of the world is false.
Elon Musk's first company — an online city guide and business directory — founded with his brother Kimbal in 1995 and sold to Compaq for $307M in 1999, giving Musk the capital to fund X.com (which became PayPal).
Elon Musk is a key figure in the modern tech industry, embodying the entrepreneurial spirit of Silicon Valley and representing the force of innovative disruption in multiple fields.
Brad Stone's sequel to The Everything Store — covering Amazon from 2013 to 2021, including AWS's dominance, international expansion, Alexa, Amazon Studios, and the complexities of Bezos's leadership.
Byrne Hobart's daily newsletter analyzing financial markets, technology companies, and business models — known for unusually sophisticated analysis that combines financial history with current events.
David Friedman's exploration of how emerging technologies — encryption, nanotechnology, brain-computer interfaces — will transform law, economics, and society.
Global online talent discovery and funding tournament founded by Daniel Gross — weekly competition where participants submit work updates, peers vote on progress, and top performers receive cash and mentorship.
Daniel Miessler's newsletter synthesizing the week's most important developments in cybersecurity and AI — known for clear signal extraction from a noisy information environment.
Michael Bloomberg's financial data and media company — whose Bloomberg Terminal is the indispensable infrastructure of global financial markets, subsidizing a massive news and media operation.
American animation studio that revolutionized computer-generated filmmaking — creating 27 consecutive films that all opened at #1, with a combination of technical innovation and emotionally sophisticated storytelling.
The founding company of Silicon Valley — started in a Palo Alto garage by Bill Hewlett and David Packard in 1939 — whose management philosophy and culture defined a generation of technology companies.
Irish co-founder and President of Stripe — the payments infrastructure company he built with his brother Patrick — one of the most consequential technology entrepreneurs of his generation.
Apple software engineer who designed the iPhone's touchscreen keyboard and autocorrect — and author of Creative Selection, the most detailed inside account of Apple's design and engineering culture.
CEO of IBM for 42 years (1914-1956) who transformed a small tabulating machine company into the world's dominant technology corporation — and created the corporate sales culture that defined American business for a generation.
American science fiction author and futurist — co-founder of the cyberpunk movement, editor of the Mirrorshades anthology, and one of the most influential technology commentators of the last 40 years.
The Altair 8800 — the first commercially successful personal computer kit (1975), whose launch triggered the PC revolution by proving there was consumer demand for personal computing.
Microblogging and social networking platform founded by David Karp in 2007 — home to fandom, creative subcultures, and LGBTQ+ communities, acquired by Yahoo for $1.1B in 2013 and subsequently sold for $3M.
Stripe's publishing imprint — producing carefully curated books on technology, economics, and progress that reflect Stripe's intellectual values and commitment to 'increasing the GDP of the internet.'
Paul Graham's collection of essays on technology, creativity, and startups — arguing that great hackers and painters share the same creative impulse and that making things is the highest form of human activity.
Paul Graham's essay arguing that great design — in code, art, or products — shares universal properties: simplicity, timelessness, suggestion rather than statement, and solving the right problem.
Co-founder of Hewlett-Packard — architect of 'The HP Way,' the management philosophy that defined Silicon Valley corporate culture for a generation.
Play-money prediction market platform founded in 2021 — democratizing forecasting by allowing anyone to create and trade in prediction markets on any question using virtual currency.
Researcher in robotics and human-robot interaction — cited in the context of AI and robotics discussions.
Founder of the Roots of Progress — a research and education nonprofit studying the history and philosophy of technological progress — and one of the central figures in the Progress Studies movement.
Entrepreneur and founder — known in Silicon Valley as a maker of consequential early bets in tech.
Canadian holding company (founded by Andrew Wilkinson and Chris Sparling) that acquires profitable, founder-led internet businesses — a 'Berkshire Hathaway for the internet.'
American blogger and entrepreneur — one of the earliest prolific bloggers, former CEO of Glitch (formerly Fog Creek Software), and technology humanist who writes about the social consequences of software.
Game designer who created the Ultima RPG series (Ultima I through Ultima IX) and became one of the first private space tourists — spending 12 days on the International Space Station in 2008.
Data analytics company and newsletter tracking venture capital, startup activity, and emerging technology trends — with a distinctive newsletter voice that combines data with irreverent commentary.