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Peter Thiel co-founded PayPal and Palantir Technologies, made the first outside investment in Facebook, and wrote Zero to One — one of the most influential startup philosophy texts of the 2010s. His career is a study in contrarian thinking applied to technology, markets, and society.

In January 2014, a man who had once swept floors to help pay rent signed a deal worth nineteen billion dollars. Jan Koum, a Ukrainian immigrant who arrived…

Edsger Dijkstra transformed programming from a mechanical trade into an intellectual discipline. He invented the shortest path algorithm, championed structured programming, created semaphores for concurrency, and built the THE multiprogramming system — reshaping how humanity writes software.

In 2014, a single research paper shattered the performance ceiling of object detection benchmarks and redefined how machines perceive visual scenes. Ross Girshick, then a postdoctoral researcher at…

In September 2015, Facebook publicly released GraphQL — a query language for APIs that allowed clients to request exactly the data they needed in a single request, nothing…

In the world of programming languages, few creations have achieved the kind of rapid, sweeping adoption that Kotlin has enjoyed since its public debut in 2011. Behind this…

In 2017, while most of the cryptocurrency world was consumed by the speculative frenzy of initial coin offerings, a twenty-year-old law student in Helsinki was thinking about something…

In January 2020, a largely unknown engineer named Evan Wallace released esbuild — a JavaScript bundler written in Go that was 10 to 100 times faster than every…

In the summer of 2012, a 29-year-old software engineer named Brian Armstrong was working at Airbnb by day and spending his nights and weekends on a side project…