A Silicon Valley-based social science and business journalist with a degree from Stanford University, Marina Krakovsky is the author of The Middleman Economy: How Brokers, Agents, Dealers, and Everyday Matchmakers Create Value and Profit. She is also co-author, with economist Kay-Yut Chen, of Secrets of the Moneylab: How Behavioral Economics Can Improve Your Business.

Her articles and essays have appeared in Discover, the New York Times Magazine, Scientific American and Scientific American Mind, O, The Oprah Magazine, Psychology Today, Slate, FastCompany, the Washington Post, Wired, and more.

As a ghostwriter, book coach, and thought partner to experts in their fields, she’s collaborated on several books, including Wall Street Journal bestsellers Die with Zero by Bill Perkins and Trillion Dollar Coach by Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, and Alan Eagle.