Paul Whitlatch, Vice President and Editorial Director, joined Crown in 2019 and became the Editorial Director of Crown Currency in 2024. He oversees the Crown Currency list, which encompasses books about business, technology, and personal success, and also acquires select titles for the Crown list, mainly in the areas of current events and history. Paul has edited and published successful books across a wide variety of subjects but is particularly drawn to reported narratives with a strong point of view, argument-driven books that help explain our world, and books that sharpen your thinking and productivity. Recently highlights include The Coming Wave by artificial intelligence pioneer Mustafa Suleyman, which has sold more than a quarter-million copies; the #1 New York Times bestseller The Technological Republic by Palantir CEO Alex Karp; the investigative crypto book Number Go Up by journalist Zeke Faux; and the finance memoir The Trading Game by YouTube economist Gary Stevenson. Enduring bestsellers acquired by Paul include Code Girls by Liza Mundy and Billion Dollar Whale by Tom Wright and Bradley Hope. His pipeline includes books by imprisoned journalist Evan Gershkovich, on Russia; Wall Street Journal columnist Christopher Mims, on mastering AI at work; legal podcaster Sarah Isgur, on the Supreme Court; Substack writer Adam Mastroianni, on science and human progress; venture capitalist Bill Gurley, on how to find a career you love; entrepreneur Marc Lore, on his theory of exponential risk; economist Kyla Scanlon, on Gen Z; the Earn Your Leisure podcasting duo, on how to “get rich with relationships”; Bloomberg writer Lucas Shaw, on the history of Netflix; London Business School professor Alex Edmans, on how to outsmart the markets; happiness expert Robin Sharma, on how to be defiantly human in the age of AI; and Atlantic staff writer Kaitlyn Tiffany, on a forgotten story of trailblazing women in the 1960s.