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Parmy Olson

Parmy Olson

Parmy Olson is a tech journalist for The Wall Street Journal. While at Forbes, she was known for her work on the hacktivist movement Anonymous. She describes herself as covering "agitators and innovators in mobile".

Early in her career with Forbes, she wrote a series of articles about the subprime mortgage crisis. She served as Forbes' London bureau chief from 2008–12 before moving to the magazine's San Francisco office.

Olson won the 2024 Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award for Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT and the race that will change the world.