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Anupreeta Das is the finance editor of The New York Times, overseeing coverage of Wall Street, including banking, investing, markets, insurance, and consumer finance. Previously, Das spent nearly a decade at the Wall Street Journal, where she helped run the paper’s coverage of business and technology, focusing on corporations and the issues affecting them. Das was also a reporter at the Journal. She wrote stories about finance, investing, and Wall Street, including a groundbreaking series she conceived and coauthored about family offices, the private investment firms of the extremely wealthy. She holds degrees from Boston University, the London School of Economics, and the University of Delhi. She is an avid hiker, having hiked across a Himalayan glacier as a teenager and summiting Mount Kilimanjaro. She is the author of Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King.
‘With delicious stories and dogged attention to detail, Anupreeta Das delves into the paradox of Bill Gates: a man whose intellectual prowess and vast wealth simultaneously uplift and complicate the fabric of society. A compelling read about one of the most powerful people on the planet’ -- Rob Reich, Stanford Professor and author of Just Giving: Why Philanthropy is Failing Democracy and How It Can Do Better ‘In tight, elegant prose, Anupreeta Das’ Billionaire, Nerd, Saviour, King shares the fascinating life story of Bill Gates and then uses it to ask and to answer timely and important questions about the roles that the wealthiest Americans play in our increasingly stratified society. It’s the book we need right this minute’ -- William D. Cohan, founding partner of Puck and bestselling author of House of Cards and Power Failure ‘Anupreeta Das’s fascinating and ambitious Billionaire, Nerd, Saviour, King shows – through the complicated story of a single tycoon – how the power and the perils of enormous wealth shape and distort not only what we expect of our democratic institutions, our tax system, our public health infrastructure; it also examines how all of us are complicit in, but often aware of, the ways in which the wealthy use that wealth and that power to turn greed into generosity and immorality into heroism’ -- Jesse Eisinger, author of The Chickenshit Club ‘A vivid, deeply reported look at one of the most influential figures in business and technology that confronts the urgent question of whether empire-builders such as Gates play too large a part in shaping the world we live in’ -- Sheelah Kolhatkar, author of Black Edge ‘Wonderful . . . It raises important questions about the myths surrounding billionaires, how our adoration of male tech geeks obscures larger questions about their behaviour, and the good and bad of the philanthropy of the very wealthy’ -- Bethany McLean, co-author of The Smartest Guys in the Room ‘A sharply incisive portrait’ * Kirkus Reviews * ‘Das widens the lens through which Gates’ life and career is viewed. Each facet of his reputation is couched within a larger framework of capitalism, social justice, and entrepreneurship to question the outsized sway Gates and others of his rank hold over society writ large. Venturing deep into every aspect of Gates’ professional and private spheres, Das offers a balanced, perceptive, and thought-provoking portrait of a man and his times’ * Booklist * ‘A perceptive and vibrant character portrait’ * Publishers Weekly *
