Eliot is the bestselling author of eleven novels, including, most recently, Foundry. His books explore the intersection of technology and culture and have earned praise from the New York Times Book Review, Popular Science, Businessweek, San Francisco Magazine, io9, Boing Boing, BBC, and Ars Technica. As an independent consultant, he helps founders tell stories that empower the people they seek to serve. Eliot pursued graduate studies in international affairs, survived dengue fever, translated Virgil’s Aeneid from the original Latin, worked as an entrepreneur-in-residence at a venture capital firm, and explored the ancient Himalayan kingdom of Mustang.