Come On, Silicon Valley, You Can Do Better Than This
A new messaging app, called Yo, has created a sensation in Silicon Valley. It is being hailed as the next big thing. The amazing breakthrough? Sending the word “Yo” to a contact with just one click....
View ArticleHow Technology Can Unleash India’s Full Potential
Indians are fed up with government inaction and corruption. They want accountability, better education for their children, improved health care, and economic prosperity. And they want change now....
View ArticleChile Teaches the World a Lesson About Innovation
Chile launched a grand innovation experiment in 2010: it paid foreign entrepreneurs to come and visit for six months. It offered them $40,000 plus free office space, Internet access, mentoring, and...
View ArticleWe’re Heading into a Jobless Future
In an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers revived a debate I’d had with futurist Ray Kurzweil in 2012 about the jobless future. He echoed the words of Peter...
View ArticleWhy We Should Believe the Dreamers—and Not the Experts
History is littered with the failed predictions of experts. Yet governments hire high-paid consultants to advise on policy; businesses use them to vet research and development projects; and venture...
View ArticleWhy Teaching Grandmothers to Code isn’t a Crazy Idea
American businesses are ageing, as is the country; and this is bad for the economy, say Ian Hathaway and Robert Litan, of The Brookings Institution. They report that the share of older firms, aged 16...
View ArticleIt’s a Beautiful Time to be Alive and Educated
This is a commencement address I gave at Hult International Business School August 22, 2014. I grew up watching Star Trek and believing that by the time I became an adult we would all be using...
View ArticleGoogle, Silicon Valley Must Do More to Hire Female Engineers
The technology industry has been fighting hard not to reveal race and gender diversity data — especially for its engineering teams — because it has a lot to be embarrassed about. Data collected on...
View ArticleHere’s What It Actually Takes to Make It as an Entrepreneur
A young male who was born to be an entrepreneur drops out from a computer-science program at a prestigious university. He meets a powerful venture capitalist who is so enamored with his idea that he...
View ArticleMove Over, Humans, the Robocars are Coming
My prediction is that in fewer than 15 years, we will be debating whether human beings should be allowed to drive on highways. After all, we are prone to road rage; rush headlong into traffic jams;...
View ArticleSilicon Valley Must Join the Ebola Battle Before It Becomes a Matter of Survival
Mark Zuckerberg recently announced a donation of $25 million to the Centers for Disease Control Foundation to help fight Ebola. He noted that the Ebola epidemic has infected 8,400 people so far and...
View ArticleSnapdeal Offers a Lesson About Immigration Reform
After graduating from Wharton in 2007, Kunal Bahl wanted to become an entrepreneur. He couldn’t get a visa, so he had to return home to India. He started Snapdeal in February 2010 with the ambition of...
View ArticleThis Indian Start-Up Could Disrupt Health Care
Frustrated at the lack of interest by the medical establishment in reducing the costs of diagnostic testing, and seeing almost no chance of getting the necessary research grants, Kanav Kahol returned...
View ArticleIn Defense of College: What Peter Thiel Gets Wrong, Once Again.
In a Washington Post opinion piece, billionaire Peter Thiel asserts that college is the final stage of a competitive tournament in which kids at the top enjoy prestige because they’ve defeated...
View Article2014 Is Ending, But This Wave of Technology Disruptions Is Just Beginning
Changes in technology are happening at a scale which was unimaginable before and will cause disruption in industry after industry. This has really begun to worry me, because we are not ready for this...
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Seven Admirable Start-Ups That Are Driving Social Change
A standing joke in Silicon Valley is that the smartest people go into online advertising, virtual currency, or dumb online games. And you surely have to wonder what has gone wrong when the industry’s...
View ArticleWhy We Should Believe the Dreamers—and Not the Experts
History is littered with the failed predictions of experts. Yet governments hire high-paid consultants to advise on policy; businesses use them to vet research and development projects; and venture...
View ArticleWhy Teaching Grandmothers to Code isn’t a Crazy Idea
American businesses are ageing, as is the country; and this is bad for the economy, say Ian Hathaway and Robert Litan, of The Brookings Institution. They report that the share of older firms, aged 16...
View ArticleIt’s a Beautiful Time to be Alive and Educated
This is a commencement address I gave at Hult International Business School August 22, 2014. I grew up watching Star Trek and believing that by the time I became an adult we would all be using...
View ArticleGoogle, Silicon Valley Must Do More to Hire Female Engineers
The technology industry has been fighting hard not to reveal race and gender diversity data — especially for its engineering teams — because it has a lot to be embarrassed about. Data collected on...
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