Nick Bilton | |
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_(cropped).jpg) Nick Bilton in 2014 | |
| Born | England |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist, author and filmmaker |
| Employer | Vanity Fair |
| Notable work | Hatching Twitter (2013),American Kingpin (2017),Fake Famous (2021) |
Nick Bilton is aBritish-American journalist, author, and filmmaker. He is currently a special correspondent atVanity Fair, author of several New York Times-bestselling books, and screenwriter.
Bilton was born in England, but later moved to the United States and attendedMarjory Stoneman Douglas High School inParkland, Florida.[1]
Bilton worked atThe New York Times from 2003 to 2016, as a design editor in the newsroom and a researcher in the research and development labs. Before he left, he was a technology columnist and the lead writer for the Bits blog.[2]
In 2016, he leftThe New York Times to become a special correspondent forVanity Fair,[3] where he writes features and columns. He co-wrote the 2015-2019Vanity Fair New Establishment List.[4]
In 2025 it was announced that Bilton would write the screenplay for a newMartin Scorsese film, starringDwayne Johnson,Leonardo DiCaprio andEmily Blunt, set to take stage in Hawaii.[5] Bilton will also produce the film.[6]
In 2021, HBO releasedFake Famous, a documentary film Bilton wrote, directed and produced about social media and influencer culture.[7]
In 2016, Bilton fought, and won, a1st Amendment lawsuit when he was deposed to testify in a class action lawsuit againstTwitter, after an article he wrote inVanity Fair, “Twitter Is Betting Everything on Jack Dorsey. Will It Work?”[8] alleged that the company knowingly deceived investors in 2015 about its users’ daily and monthly engagement with the site.[9]
Bilton is the author of three books:I Live in the Future & Here's How It Works: Why Your World, Work, and Brain Are Being Creatively Disrupted (2010),[10]Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal (2013),[11] andAmerican Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road (2017).
Hatching Twitter told the story of theTwitter'searly days and its four founders—Evan Williams,Jack Dorsey,Noah Glass, andBiz Stone—who are portrayed as "mediocrities,narcissists and mopers who seem to spend as much time on scheming, self-promotion and self-destruction as on anything else", according toTim Wu's review in theWashington Post.[12] The book was optioned byLionsgate in 2013, yet as of 2023 no series has been produced.[13]
American Kingpin, published in May 2017, tells the story of theSilk Road marketplace, its founderRoss Ulbricht (who went by "Dread Pirate Roberts"), and how U.S. law enforcement arrested him.[14][15] In June 2017,The Hollywood Reporter reported that theCoen brothers andSteven Zaillian were adapting the book into a movie.[16]
| Year | Title | Director | Writer | Producer |
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| 2024 | Biggest Heist Ever[17][18] | No | No | Yes |
| 2021 | Fake Famous | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 2019 | The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley | No | No | Yes |
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