By Sony Mathew
True stories about the people who build technology and the bets that shape what it becomes.
Defense technology
Silicon Valley and the Remaking of Defense
The story of how Palmer Luckey and Anduril brought Silicon Valley’s software playbook to defense, from border surveillance to autonomous weapons. It follows their bid to change how governments buy military technology and asks who gets to make decisions when more of the battlefield runs on software.
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Design and collaboration
The Browser Bet That Changed Design
How a bet on running professional design tools in the browser turned a solitary file into a shared workspace. The book traces Figma from its early technical gamble through the abandoned Adobe deal and its expansion beyond the design team.
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Payments and infrastructure
Stripe and the Making of the Internet Economy
From the Collison brothers’ beginnings in Ireland to the first Stripe payment API, this book follows the work of making it easier to do business online. It looks at how that work expanded into platforms, financial infrastructure, and new ways for software to move money.
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AI and software development
The Anysphere Story and the Race to Automate Software
An independent history of Anysphere and the editor its MIT founders built around AI. It follows Cursor from code completion to agents that can work across a codebase, and examines how competition for access to the best models shaped the company’s choices.
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AI and safety
Claude, AI Safety, and the Race to Build Trustworthy Intelligence
How a group of former OpenAI researchers built Anthropic and brought Claude to market while making AI safety central to the company’s mission. The book follows the tensions between safety research, commercial pressure, and the interests of governments as frontier models grow more powerful.
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