Theo Baker, author portrait

Theo Baker

Theo Baker is an undergraduate at Stanford University. His reporting led to former Stanford president Marc Tessier-Lavigne’s resignation and made Baker the youngest-ever recipient of the prestigious George Polk Award. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, New York, The New York Times, and elsewhere. He will graduate from Stanford in June 2026.
How to Rule the World

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How to Rule the World

FROM THE PAGE: Read an excerpt from Theo Baker’s How to Rule the World

From Theo Baker, winner of the George Polk Award for his investigation that brought down Stanford’s president, comes a revelatory and gripping account of Silicon Valley hubris.   Seventeen-year-old Theo Baker showed up for freshman year at Stanford University as a tech-obsessed coder. But Baker soon discovered a culture that embraced corner-cutting, that vested infinite

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