Section
Long-form narrative profiles. Frontier Bylines profiles are built around several long sittings with a subject who has agreed to the time, supplemented by interviews with people in the subject's orbit. They run between three and five thousand words, sometimes longer when the work earns it.
2 pieces filed · RSS for this section
Recommended
Profile
Andrew Rollins exited his first company at twenty-one, spent the next three years going to school on a single technology, and built the company he wished had existed the first time around. A long profile of a quiet founder, on his own terms.
All pieces in profile
Profile
Andrew Rollins exited his first company at twenty-one, spent the next three years going to school on a single technology, and built the company he wished had existed the first time around. A long profile of a quiet founder, on his own terms.
Profile
Twelve months after walking out of OpenAI, the former CTO is in talks for a round that would make Thinking Machines Lab one of the most valuable private companies in the world. There is no product. There is no public roadmap. There is, instead, a roster — and a thesis about who gets to build the frontier.
Writers active in this section