Will Alden is a writer of fiction and journalism, based in Los Angeles.

He received an MFA in fiction from the Creative Writing Program at the University of Oregon. Previously, he worked as a reporter for BuzzFeed News (San Francisco) and The New York Times (New York), covering business and technology, and he contributed to the (now defunct) "It's the Economy" column of The New York Times Magazine. In 2016 he was awarded the Larry Birger Young Business Journalist prize by the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing, for his investigative work on two Silicon Valley companies, Zenefits and Palantir Technologies. A reported essay appeared in The Atlantic online.

Get in touch: william.alden@gmail.com

For the true fans, or anyone interested in, for example, a moody account of commodity futures trading, or the intersection of private equity and world-class matzah, here is his New York Times author page.

And the BuzzFeed one.

We've got a lot of hard work today.

It's okay with me.

Well, I never worry — now that is a lie.