Founder, Exponential View · Executive Fellow, Harvard Business School
Azeem Azhar works one level up from implementation: what a technology does to an industry’s economics over years, rather than what to build next quarter. Exponential View, his newsletter and podcast, reaches a reported readership above 200,000 including policymakers, investors and senior executives.
He is an executive fellow at Harvard Business School and a visiting fellow at the University of Oxford (Wikipedia). He wrote Exponential: Order and Chaos in an Age of Accelerating Technology, named to best-of-year lists by the Financial Times and Harvard Business Review. Earlier he was a venture partner at Kindred Capital and a senior adviser at McKinsey, PwC and Accenture.
Useful when the question is strategic rather than operational — whether a market is about to be restructured, not which vendor to pick. The honest limitation is the mirror image of his strength: nothing in the exponential frame tells you how to automate an invoicing process next month. Pair him with a practitioner. The readership figure is self-reported.
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