The Official List of the Best Profiles on the Internet

I’ve read thousands of profiles since I started writing The Profile, a weekly newsletter featuring the best long-form articles of interesting people and companies.
The stories have included high-profile figures like Elon Musk, Sheryl Sandberg, Jay-Z, and Harrison Ford. But they’ve also included some not-so-high profile people like the man who de-activated Donald Trump’s Twitter account and the woman who brought Uber to its knees.
If you’ve got a long flight coming up or you simply want to learn a lesson or two from the world’s most successful, here’s a comprehensive list of the best long-form profiles on the Internet. Enjoy.
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October 2018
— The prince of fraud & the woman running a $45 billion empire
September 2018
— The king of venture capital & the crypto cop who switched sides
— The LeBron James of short selling & the space company that almost failed
— The founder who ‘broke democracy’ & the pet startups mistreating humans
— The world’s richest man & the male feminism camp
— The Steve Jobs of beauty & the most obsessive billionaire in America
August 2018
— The world’s most feared investor & the ultra-secretive tech CEO
— Virgin Galactic’s rocket man & the blockchain democracy
— The PayPal Mafia & the spy inside of al-Qaeda
— The billionaire yogi & the John Gotti of Amsterdam
July 2018
— SpaceX’s secret weapon & the crypto cult leader
— The American hostage abroad & the company making hair loss cool
— The female billionaire taking on Elon Musk & the moonshot factory
— The man who can’t feel fear & the world’s most exclusive dating app
June 2018
— The woman behind your Netflix addiction & the biggest rivalry in business
— Silicon Valley’s secret dealmaker & the drone warriors
— Wall Street’s king of crypto & the breakup boot camp
— New York’s biggest con artist & the reporter who rose from the dead
May 2018
— The unicorn killer & the crypto capitalists inside J.P. Morgan
— The celebrity cult leader & the queen of dating apps
— The billion-dollar horse gambler & the kingpins of Amazon
— The world’s most elite traders’ club & the Tinder ghostwriters
April 2018
— The leader of a fallen empire & Beyoncé’s personal bodyguard
— The prince re-shaping the Middle East & the gym for your face
— The man who lost $800K Bitcoins & Trump’s tweeter-in-chief
— Wall Street’s biggest gambler & the gang informant
— The most disruptive man in football & the Golden State killer
March 2018
— The investor who wants to fix capitalism & the volcano diver
— The billionaire king of private equity & the most ignorant man in America
— The secret life of an Olympic champion & the Trump whisperer
— The cybercriminal who saved the world & the brain company uploading your memories
February 2018
— The Italian loose in the White House & Hollywood’s biggest dealmaker
— The politician backed by Bitcoin & the only human in Antarctica
— The NBA’s secret wine club & the collapsing social network
— America’s national nightmare & the NBA talent factory
January 2018
— The $100 billion man & the dad-turned-Instagram star
— The mastermind behind Amazon & the VC living in the future
— The billionaire who lost his company & football’s most powerful friendship
— The astronaut chasing Mars & Silicon Valley’s spin master
December 2017
— The rap mogul who cries & the man who silenced Trump
— The founding father of venture capital & the loan mafia
— The first Bitcoin billionaires & the Olympic champion with no self-esteem
— Hollywood’s most powerful actress & the man who built Ethereum
November 2017
— America’s new power couple & the world’s fastest dad
— The men behind the Valley’s messiest breakup and America’s love doctor
— The company spying on your money & the unlikely Twitter troll
— The private prisons running America & Bulgaria’s most infamous gangster
October 2017
— Nick Saban, Scooter Braun & Chrissy Teigen
— The astronaut preparing for Mars & the Iron Man of Silicon Valley
— The secret billionaires driving addiction & the couple building trust with terrorists
— The millennial Walt Disney & the $3 billion disappearing act
September 2017
— The crazy billionaire brothers & the immortal startup founder
— The scientist playing God and the man built on conflict
— The NFL’s most polarizing athlete & the most hated company in America
— The Facebook for athletes & the bodega owner moonlighting as a TV star
August 2017
— The NBA player who stared death in the eye & the housewife-turned-beer billionaire
— The terrorist whisperer & the double agent living in your house
— The woman taking us to Mars & the billion-dollar sex tape empire
— The unapologetic female billionaire & the man addicted to war
July 2017
— The startup reading your genetic secrets & the man hiding in Elon Musk’s shadow
— The first Bitcoin criminal & the unlikely power couple
— The doctor leading a secret double life & the king of Wall Street
— Silicon Valley’s most radical family & the baddest woman in Hollywood
June 2017
— The therapist who will fix your love life & the clickbait empire that collapsed in 9 months
— A mysterious billionaire, a bounty hunter, and a $900K/week CEO
— The sloth of Silicon Valley & the baseball God living a double life
— The corporate drug dealer & the millennial making $700K flipping burgers
May 2017
— The NFL player who says prison saved his life & the TedX of Failure
— The actor trying to ‘feel life’ and the Fyre company that went up in flames
— The entrepreneur who’s not sure he’s an a**hole and the company allergic to capitalism
— The most important rapper in America & the company that lets you edit the news
April 2017
— The hardest working man on Wall Street and the digital country club
— The tech exec coping with life after death & the company reading your mind
— The guy who stole Tom Brady’s Super Bowl jersey & the urban farming accelerator
— The couple that earns six-figures to travel the world & the Apple of Appliances
— The unstoppable 22-year-old entrepreneur & the company merging your brain with a computer
March 2017
— The America-loving immigrant billionaire & the ‘cheerful cult’ business
— The magician manipulating your emotions & the company building a pizza empire
— The basketball prodigy & the “adulting school” for lazy millennials
— The man who makes founders cry & the company that rents out dogs
February 2017
— The woman who helps humanize murderers & the Silicon Valley of space exploration
— The really boring billionaire & the heartbreak cleanse

