Stephen Witt

One prize carries Witt's record, but it is the right one. The Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award is the benchmark for business non-fiction, judged by a panel drawn from finance, academia and journalism, and winning it in 2025 put The Thinking Machine in the company of the most cited business books of the past two decades. What makes the win notable for Witt specifically is the technical difficulty of the subject: a book about GPU architecture and corporate strategy is a harder sell to a general prize panel than a management memoir, and the judges rewarded the research anyway. The award also arrived before the November 2026 crisis that sent the book back up the charts, which means the recognition was earned on the writing rather than on the news cycle that followed.