Paul Andrews, a technology journalist from Seattle, writes a weekly column called "E-conomy" for the Seattle Times. He also is a technology correspondent for US News & World Report and has written for the New York Times and other newspapers. With Stephen Manes he co-authored GATES: How Microsoft's Mogul Reinvented an Industry and Made Himself the Richest Man in America (Doubleday, 1993; Touchstone, 1994). In 1999 his book How the Web Was Won, about Microsoft's first "epiphany" on the Internet, was published by Broadway Books. The paperback version came out in August 2000.

Paul is married to Cecile Andrews, author of The Circle of Simplicity (Harper Collins, 1997), a former visiting scholar at Stanford University, and now an affiliated scholar at Seattle University. He also is personal manservant to a bichon frise named Maggie. All dog owners think their pets are the smartest, cutest, most lovable creatures in the universe. Only bichon owners are correct.