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How to Rule the World

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How to Rule the World

2026 · Theo Baker

Biography & autobiography

Overall score
7.3
#188 of 348 books
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1
Verdict
Too few to say
Range of opinion
15.510

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Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2026 by The New York Times “Poignant, maddening, and genuinely hilarious, How to Rule the World is to be devoured—and fast, before Stanford buys up and sets fire to every copy. (Talk about a burn book!)” —Mark Leibovich, #1 New York Times bestselling author of This Town Winner of the George Polk Award for his investigation that brought down Stanford’s president, Theo Baker offers a revelatory and gripping account of Silicon Valley hubris Slush funds. Shell companies. Yacht parties. This is life for Silicon Valley’s favored teenagers. Seventeen-year-old Theo Baker showed up for freshman year at Stanford University as a tech-obsessed coder. It seemed like para…

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  • Ostensibly about VC money for undergrads at Stanford, but actually mostly about how a Freshman student journalist uncovered research fraud. Riveting!

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