Parmy Olson (Author of We Are Anonymous)

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Parmy Olson is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering technology regulation, artificial intelligence, and social media. A former reporter for the Wall Street Journal and Forbes, she is the author of We Are Anonymous and a recipient of the Palo Alto Networks Cyber Security Cannon Award. Olson has been writing about artificial intelligence systems and the money behind them for seven years. Her reporting on Facebook鈥檚 $19 billion acquisition of WhatsApp and the subsequent fallout resulted in two Forbes cover stories and two honourable mentions in the SABEW business journalism awards. At the Wall Street Journal she investigated companies that exaggerated their AI capabilities and was the first to report on a secret effort at Google鈥檚 top AI lab ...more

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Best Stories Of The Decade: 鈥淭he Rags-To-Riches Tale Of How Jan Koum Built WhatsApp Into Facebook鈥檚 New $19 Billion Baby鈥�

We're republishing our finest work from the past decade, including this tale of how billionaire Jan Koum founded WhatsApp. It鈥檚 arguably the greatest rags-to-riches saga in American history, told hours after he sold his company to Facebook.

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Published on December 23, 2019 03:00

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Average rating: 4.01 · 5,293 ratings · 595 reviews · 3 distinct works 鈥� Similar authors

	We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency 3.97 avg rating — 3,342 ratings — published 2012 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race that Will Change the World 4.09 avg rating — 1,950 ratings — published 2024 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Zuckerberg: Inside the secret life of the man who connected the world really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“She never typed her real name into her netbook in case it got key-logged, had no physical hard drive, and would boot up from a tiny microSD card that she could quickly swallow if the police ever came to her door.”
― Parmy Olson, We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency

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“Rumor even had it that she鈥檇 stabbed her webcam with a knife one day, just in case someone took over her PC and filmed her unaware.”
― Parmy Olson, We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency

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“Anonymous was like any other modern-day movement that had become fragmented by the user-generated, crowd-sourced nature of a web-enabled society.”
― Parmy Olson, We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency

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