Benjamin Graham: The Intellectual Roots of the Man Who Invented Value Investing
Before Benjamin Graham published his seminal work in the 1930s, investing in the stock market was widely regarded…
Jesse Livermore: The Tragic Life of Wall Street’s Greatest Short Seller
In the autumn of 1929, as panicked crowds gathered outside the New York Stock Exchange to watch fortunes…
Muriel Siebert: The “First Woman of Wall Street” Who Fought for a Seat on the New York Stock Exchange
In 1954, Muriel “Mickie” Siebert arrived in New York City with a used car, a few hundred dollars,…
Nassim Nicholas Taleb: How a Lebanese Option Trader Built a Philosophy Around “Black Swan” Events
long before he became one of the world’s most influential public intellectuals, Nassim Nicholas Taleb spent two decades…
Hyman Minsky: The Ignored Economist Whose Theories Predicted the 2008 Financial Collapse
For decades, mainstream mainstream economics treated Hyman Minsky as a radical outsider. While the prevailing consensus insisted that…
Susan Wojcicki: The Operational Engine Who Turned a Silicon Valley Garage Into a Global Video Ecosystem
In SSusan Wojcicki: The Operational Engine Who Turned a Silicon Valley Garage Into a Global Video Ecosystem Susan…
Jimmy Wales: How an Options Trader Pivoted to Create the World’s Largest Crowd Sourced Encyclopedia
Before he built the digital public square of human knowledge, Jimmy Wales spent his days speculating on financial…
Ward Cunningham: The Programmer Who Created the “Wiki” Concept to Speed Up Collaborative Coding
In the early 1990s, software development was undergoing a major shift toward object oriented programming and design patterns.…
Brewster Kahle: The Digital Archivist Archiving the Entire Internet via the Wayback Machine
In the early days of the World Wide Web, the internet was celebrated as an ethereal, infinitely expanding…
Robert Tappan Morris: The Graduate Student Who Accidentally Crashed the Early Internet
On the evening of November 2, 1988, the nascent internet—then a network connecting roughly 60,000 university, military, and…