Nick Bilton

Nick Bilton

NY, US
Special Correspondent, "Vanity Fair" & Best-Selling Author

Nick Bilton is a Special Correspondent for Vanity Fair, where he writes about technology, politics, business and culture. He is also a contributor to CNBC, and a former columnist and reporter for The New York Times.

He has written three books, including The New York Times bestseller, "Hatching Twitter," which chronicled the turmoil and chaos inside Twitter as it grew from a fledgling startup into a multi-billion dollar company. The book is currently being turned into a TV show for Lionsgate.

His next book, "American Kingpin," will be published by Penguin/Portfolio in May, 2017. The book tells the story of the epic hunt for the Dread Pirate Roberts, a genius savant who founded The Silk Road, a billion-dollar marketplace that sold guns, drugs and poison on the dark web.

Over the years, Bilton's columns and articles have led to investigations by the U.S. government, and helped press the Federal Aviation Administration to overturn a rule requiring people to turn off devices during takeoff and landing. He lives in Los Angeles, Calif., with his wife, son, and dog, Pixel.

Nick Bilton is a Special Correspondent for Vanity Fair, where he writes about technology, politics, business and culture. He is also a contributor to CNBC, and a former columnist and reporter for The New York Times.

He has written three books, including The New York Times bestseller, "Hatching Twitter," which chronicled the turmoil and chaos inside Twitter as it grew from a fledgling startup into a multi-billion dollar company. The book is currently being turned into a TV show for Lionsgate.

His next book, "American Kingpin," will be published by Penguin/Portfolio in May, 2017. The book tells the story of the epic hunt for the Dread Pirate Roberts, a genius savant who founded The Silk Road, a billion-dollar marketplace that sold guns, drugs and poison on the dark web.

Over the years, Bilton's columns and articles have led to investigations by the U.S. government, and helped press the Federal Aviation Administration to overturn a rule requiring people to turn off devices during takeoff and landing. He lives in Los Angeles, Calif., with his wife, son, and dog, Pixel.

Future Consumers

How will you communicate with customers and tell stories about your industry in the next two or 20 years? How will our readiness to multitask and byte-sized culture have an effect on business and society? Nick Bilton reveals that organizations that stay on the cutting edge of the technology curve will have significant advantage getting their message across and building communities. In a presentation that is both visionary and practical, Bilton examines how the Internet is creating a new type...
Educational / InformativeTechnical / Specific

Big Data

Nick Bilton shares insights on big data, where the data is coming from, what we are finding from the data, and the security aspects of this new source of information. In a customized presentation that features incredible visuals, he discusses what big data means to the future of his audience's industry and how big data is changing how they do business. Combining his knowledge of larger future trends and the eye-opening insights on the power that big data holds, Bilton helps audiences...
Educational / InformativeTechnical / Specific

Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal

Nick Bilton shares the story of Twitter's origin and discusses what business lessons can be gleaned from one of the most talked about IPOs in recent corporate history. He looks at the beginnings of the social media giant, and through unprecedented access, exhaustive reporting, and an insider's perspective, he provides an intimate portrait of the men who accidentally changed the world, what they learned along the way, and how we can create some serendipity in our own organizations.
Educational / InformativeInspirational / Life-changing

The Future of Media, Technology and Society

The change in business and technology is accelerating at such a rapid pace that it no longer works to passively keep up with the shift in how business is done. Organizations must be proactive. From how we consume media and the business opportunities that will exist in creating advertising experiences in virtual reality to wearable and ingestible computing that will enable us to become more mobile, more educated, and more informed than ever before, Nick Bilton uses incredible stories and...
Educational / InformativeTechnical / SpecificInspirational / Life-changing

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