Max Chafkin

Max Chafkin is the author of The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power, published by Penguin Press. He is a features editor and a tech reporter at Bloomberg Businessweek. His work has also appeared in Fast Company, Vanity Fair, The New York Times Magazine, and Inc., where he was a senior writer for the magazine. He lives in Queens, New York with his wife, the journalist Christine Lagorio-Chafkin, and their children.