Ryan Mac is a Los Angeles–based technology reporter for The New York Times. He has spent more than a decade reporting on wealth and power in Silicon Valley, first at Forbes magazine, and then at BuzzFeed News, where he was a senior reporter. At The Times, Ryan has covered companies including Meta, TikTok, and SpaceX and industry leaders including Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and Mark Zuckerberg. He is a co-author of the book, Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter, which covers the unprecedented acquisition of the social platform by the world's richest man.