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.
Experience
Founder, Exponential View
Weekly briefing read by 600,000+ readers. 260+ podcast episodes. Investors include Tim O'Reilly and Ev Williams.
Co-Chair, Global Futures Council on Technology Policy
World Economic Forum, Davos.
Executive in Residence
Harvard Business School, Digital Initiative.
Visiting Fellow
Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford.
Principal Analyst, GigaOm
Covered enterprise technology for a global audience of CTOs and CIOs.
Recognition
Book
"Offers a compelling new way to think about accelerating technological change and the social and political disruptions it is causing."
"A must-read for anyone who wants to understand the technology landscape and how we might harness it to create a better future."
"An indispensable guide to technological progress and its consequences for our economies, politics and societies."
"Azeem builds the case for exponential thinking through insightful examples of technologies that have made possible discontinuous leaps forward."