Nick Bilton

British-born Nick Bilton is Special Correspondent at Vanity Fair, where he writes about technology, business, and culture, and a contributor at CNBC. He was a columnist for The New York Times for almost a decade. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, son, and dog, Pixel.

He is the author of three books: I Live in the Future & Here's How It Works: Why Your World, Work, and Brain Are Being Creatively Disrupted (2010), Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal (2013), and American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road (2017). 

Hatching Twitter tells the story of Twitter's early days and its four founders, Evan Williams, Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, and Biz Stone, who is portrayed as "mediocrities, narcissists and mopers who seem to spend as much time on scheming, self-promotion, and self-destruction as on anything else," according to Tim Wu's review in the Washington Post. It was on The New York Times bestseller list and was voted Best Book of the Year on The Wall Street Journal Reader's Choice.