ABSTRACT
Salim Ismail (Canada) is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, author, and technology strategist. He is best known as the founding executive director of Singularity University and lead author of Exponential Organizations. In March 2017, he was added to the board of the XPRIZE Foundation. Ismail has founded and/or operated seven early-stage companies, including PubSub Concepts, which laid some of the foundation for the real-time Web, and the New York Grant Company, in direct response to 9/11. The author was fascinated by Salim’s way of thinking, and he wanted to get to know this passionate businessman and entrepreneur better. The author has evolved over 4 billion years—to survive and to co-create. We are basically animals with tools, and our DNA is very close to that of gorillas.
