About

Analyst, founder, investor — and one of the most trusted voices on technology's implications for society.

Azeem Azhar is the founder of Exponential View, the weekly briefing read by 600,000 business leaders, policymakers, and technologists. He has spent three decades at the intersection of technology and power — as a product leader at Reuters and The Guardian, as a founder and angel investor, and now as a writer, podcaster, and speaker helping organisations navigate the AI era. His book Exponential (Penguin Random House, 2021) is a Financial Times Business Book of the Year finalist.

2015 — present

Founder, Exponential View

Weekly briefing read by 600,000+ readers. 260+ podcast episodes. Investors include Tim O'Reilly and Ev Williams.

2023

Co-Chair, Global Futures Council on Technology Policy

World Economic Forum, Davos.

2023

Executive in Residence

Harvard Business School, Digital Initiative.

2022

Visiting Fellow

Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford.

2012 — 2015

Principal Analyst, GigaOm

Covered enterprise technology for a global audience of CTOs and CIOs.

2023
Future Perfect 50
Vox Media
2023
Honorary Doctorate
Hult International Business School
2022
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Exponential
Penguin Random House · 2021 · Published in 12 languages
"Offers a compelling new way to think about accelerating technological change and the social and political disruptions it is causing."
The Economist
"A must-read for anyone who wants to understand the technology landscape and how we might harness it to create a better future."
Reid Hoffman — Co-founder, LinkedIn
"An indispensable guide to technological progress and its consequences for our economies, politics and societies."
Mariana Mazzucato — Professor, UCL; author of The Entrepreneurial State
"Azeem builds the case for exponential thinking through insightful examples of technologies that have made possible discontinuous leaps forward."
Tom Glocer — Former CEO, Thomson Reuters