Saul Griffith is a reinventor right out of central casting: MIT geek, MacArthur Fellow “genius,” serial entrepreneur, DARPA-funded innovator who is always working a decade ahead of everyone else. Currently the co-founder and Chief Scientist of Otherlabs, Griffith has also founded or co-founded a dozen companies, delivered TED talks on everyday inventions, and been profiled in The New Yorker.
Innovator Spotlight
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Dave Chen
Founder & CEO of Equilibrium Capital Group
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Peter Leyden
Founder of Reinvent
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Lawrence Lessig
Academic, Lawyer & Political Activist
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Tim O’Reilly
Founder of O'Reilly Media & Host of Next:Economy Conference
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June Cohen
Co-Founder & CEO, WaitWhat
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Ben Rattray
Founder & CEO of Change.org
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Anna Galland
Executive Director of MoveOn.org
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Brad Burnham
Managing Partner at Union Square Ventures
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Markos Moulitsas
Founder & Publisher of Daily Kos
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Robin Chase
Transportation Entrepreneur; Co-Founder of Zipcar & Veniam
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Peter Schwartz
Chief Futures Officer and Senior Vice President for Strategic Planning at Salesforce
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Angela Glover Blackwell
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of PolicyLink
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Manuel Pastor
Professor of Sociology & American Studies & Ethnicity at USC
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Mariana Mazzucato
Author & Professor of Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College London
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Aneesh Chopra
The first U.S. CTO & Co-Founder of Hunch Analytics
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Edward Luce
Chief U.S. Commentator & Columnist at the Financial Times
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Craig Newmark
Founder of craigslist & Nerd-in-Residence at the VA Center for Innovation
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Jen Pahlka
Founder & Executive Director of Code for America
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Robert Johnson
President of the Institute for New Economic Thinking
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Brad DeLong
Professor of Economics at UC Berkeley
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Steve Clemons
Washington Editor-at-Large for The Atlantic, National Journal & Quartz
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John Markoff
Technology & Science Reporter
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John Battelle
Co-Founder of NewCo & Host of NewCo Shift Forum
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Nick Hanauer
Entrepreneur & Investor
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Jeremiah Owyang
Founder of Crowd Companies
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Palak Shah
Social Innovations Director at National Domestic Workers Alliance
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Natalie Foster
Advisor to the Aspen Institute Future of Work Initiative
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Douglas Rushkoff
Author, Teacher & Documentarian
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Arun Sundararajan
Author of The Sharing Economy & Professor at New York University's Stern School of Business
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John Della Volpe
Director of Polling at Harvard’s Institute of Politics and Founder and CEO of SocialSphere
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Kristin Sharp
Executive Director, SHIFT: The Commission on Work, Workers, and Technology
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Vivienne Ming
Co-Founder & Managing Partner of Socos LLC
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Donnie Fowler
CEO, Tech for America
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Paul Saffo
Technology Forecaster & Professor at Stanford University
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Julian Agyeman
Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning at Tufts University
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Nikki Silvestri
Founder & CEO at Soil and Shadow
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Michael Tubbs
Mayor of Stockton, CA
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Richard Florida
Co-Founder & Editor at Large, City Lab
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Stephane Kasriel
CEO of Upwork
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Carmen Rojas
CEO, The Workers Lab
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Jennifer Granholm
Former Governor of Michigan
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Ahmad Mansur
Co-Founding Partner, Urban Economy Group
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Gavin Newsom
Governor of California
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Catherine Bracy
Co-Founder and Executive Director, TechEquity Collaborative
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Roy Bahat
Head of Bloomberg Beta
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Orville Schell
Arthur Ross Director of the Center On US-China Relations at the Asia Society
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Sangeet Paul Choudary
Best-selling author of the books Platform Revolution and Platform Scale
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Laura Tyson
Professor of the Graduate School and Faculty Director of the Institute for Business & Social Impact at the Berkeley Haas School of Business
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Susan Lund
Partner of McKinsey & Company
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Chris Hughes
Co-Chair, Economic Security Project
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Marco Zappacosta
Co-Founder and CEO, Thumbtack
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Eric Ries
Founder and CEO of the Long-Term Stock Exchange
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E. David Ellington
Founder & Executive Chairman of the Silicon Valley Blockchain Society
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Brian Sager
Serial Entrepreneur and CEO & Co-Founder of Omnity
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Kai-Fu Lee
Chairman and CEO of Sinovation Ventures
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Linda Avey
Co-founder of 23andMe and Precise.ly
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Scott Galloway
Professor of Marketing at NYU Stern School of Business, Serial Entrepreneur and Author
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Saul Griffith
Serial Entrepreneur & Inventor, Chief Scientist at Otherlab