Books by Stephen Witt
The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World’s Most Coveted Microchip
by Stephen Witt
🏆 Winner of the 2025 Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award
“So this is a super timely book because Nvidia, the company at the center of it, is the world’s most valuable company…The book paints a picture of a company that, through sheer drive—and also a lot of luck—has managed to put itself in a position to catch this vast wave of AI development. Only a few years ago, the idea of neural networks and generative AI was considered to be a bit hopeless—both in academic and engineering circles. And the origin of Nvidia’s microchips was in gaming, another area that was somewhat neglected. The chips were put together into these vast arrays. By linking together chips that had originally been designed for video games, they could do much more. So Huang’s vision and his drive and his eccentricities—he was a champion table tennis player, for example, at one point—come across very strongly in this book. It’s a really great read. I don’t have any judging influence, but it’s one of my favorites this year.” Read more...
The Best Business Books of 2025: the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award
Andrew Hill, Journalist
Interviews where books by Stephen Witt were recommended
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House of Huawei: The Secret History of China's Most Powerful Company
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Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare
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How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations
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Abundance: How We Build a Better Future
by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson -

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Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future
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The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World’s Most Coveted Microchip
by Stephen Witt
The Best Business Books of 2025: the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award, recommended by Andrew Hill
The Best Business Books of 2025: the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award, recommended by Andrew Hill
It’s been another big year for technology and AI, but books on geopolitics and global political rivalries are front and centre on the shortlist of the 2025 Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award. FT journalist Andrew Hill, the prize’s organizer, talks us through the six books that made the cut—from the enigmatic founders of multi-billion- and trillion-dollar businesses to the challenges governments face in achieving growth and prosperity.






