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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Kara Swisher
Co-founder of Recode, Host of the Recode Decode podcast, and New York Times columnist
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Ahmad Mansur
Co-Founding Partner, Urban Economy Group
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Chris Hughes
Co-Chair, Economic Security Project
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Leslie Dewan
Co-Founder & CEO at Transatomic Power
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Craig Newmark
Founder of craigslist & Nerd-in-Residence at the VA Center for Innovation
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Scott Galloway
Professor of Marketing at NYU Stern School of Business, Serial Entrepreneur and Author
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Jane Metcalfe
CEO and Editor in Chief of NEO.LIFE
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Ira Deutchman
Managing Partner of Emerging Pictures & Film Program Chair at Columbia University
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Robin Chase
Transportation Entrepreneur; Co-Founder of Zipcar & Veniam
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Tiffany Shlain
Filmmaker & Founder of The Webby Awards
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Lawrence Lessig
Academic, Lawyer & Political Activist
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Jane McGonigal
World-Renowned Game Designer & Bestselling Author
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Nick Hanauer
Entrepreneur & Investor
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Ali Partovi
Investor in Dropbox & Co-Founder of LinkExchange & Code.org
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Kevin Kelly
Senior Maverick at WIRED Magazine
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Jeremiah Owyang
Founder of Crowd Companies
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Sangeet Paul Choudary
Best-selling author of the books Platform Revolution and Platform Scale
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Krisztina 'Z' Holly
Tech Entrepreneur, Engineer, Innovator & Troublemaker
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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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Peter Calthorpe
Principal, Calthorpe Associates
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Mandeep Dhillon
Co-Founder & CEO of 1StudentBody
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Roy Bahat
Head of Bloomberg Beta
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Angela Glover Blackwell
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of PolicyLink
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José Bowen
President of Goucher College
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Carl Pope
Author of "Climate of Hope: How Cities, Businesses, and Citizens Can Save the Planet"
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George Dyson
Author & Historian of Technology
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Paul Saffo
Technology Forecaster & Professor at Stanford University
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Eric Schlosser
Investigative Journalist & Bestselling Author
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Gary Marcus
Scientist, Author, and Entrepreneur
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Nick Pinkston
Founder & CEO of Plethora
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Eric Ries
Founder and CEO of the Long-Term Stock Exchange
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Laura Murphy
Former Director of the ACLU Washington Legislative Office
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Vivienne Ming
Co-Founder & Managing Partner of Socos LLC
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Valerie Plame
Author & Former Covert CIA Operations Officer
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Neil Gershenfeld
Director of MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms
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Soraya Darabi
Co-Founder of Zady
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Paul Hawken
Executive Director of Project Drawdown
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Gavin Newsom
Governor of California
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Michael Nutter
Former Mayor of Philadelphia
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Elisa Batista
Associate Campaign Director at MomsRising.org
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Mariana Mazzucato
Author & Professor of Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College London
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Andrew Hessel
Distinguished Research Scientist, Autodesk Life Sciences
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Ting Kelly
Co-founder of Metapattern
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Susanna Pollack
Vice President of Partnerships & Special Projects at Games for Change
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Donnie Fowler
CEO, Tech for America
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Franklin Leonard
Founder & CEO of the Black List
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Janet Murguía
President & CEO of the National Council of La Raza
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Carmen Rojas
CEO, The Workers Lab
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Alex Steffen
Planetary Futurist & Writer
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Peter Schwartz
Chief Futures Officer and Senior Vice President for Strategic Planning at Salesforce
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Ken Goldberg
Professor, UC Berkeley
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Jennifer Granholm
Former Governor of Michigan
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Nikki Silvestri
Founder & CEO at Soil and Shadow
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Tim O’Reilly
Founder of O'Reilly Media & Host of Next:Economy Conference
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Markos Moulitsas
Founder & Publisher of Daily Kos
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Brewster Kahle
Founder of the Internet Archive
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Howard Rheingold
Technology visionary, author & teacher
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Steven Johnson
Bestselling author & host of the PBS series "How We Got to Now"
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Steven Chu
Former United States Secretary of Energy
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E. David Ellington
Founder & Executive Chairman of the Silicon Valley Blockchain Society
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Theresa Preston-Werner
Co-Founder & CEO at Codestarter
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Brian Behlendorf
Executive Director of the Hyperledger Project
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Cameron Bailey
Artistic Director of the Toronto International Film Festival
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Joseph Cirincione
President of Ploughshares Fund
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Brad DeLong
Professor of Economics at UC Berkeley
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Esther Dyson
Entrepreneur and Business Leader
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David Brin
Physicist & Bestselling Science Fiction Author
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Larry Brilliant
Author, Philanthropist, Entrepreneur
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John Battelle
Co-Founder of NewCo & Host of NewCo Shift Forum
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Orville Schell
Arthur Ross Director of the Center On US-China Relations at the Asia Society
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Michael Tubbs
Mayor of Stockton, CA
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Michael Pollan
Bestselling author & lecturer on food, agriculture, health & the environment
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Ben Rattray
Founder & CEO of Change.org
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Ann Ravel
Vice Chair of the Federal Election Commission
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Richard Florida
Co-Founder & Editor at Large, City Lab
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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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Rachel Botsman
World-renowned expert on an explosive new era of trust and technology
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Douglas Rushkoff
Author, Teacher & Documentarian
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Steve Clemons
Washington Editor-at-Large for The Atlantic, National Journal & Quartz
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Jonny Dyer
GEO Hardware Lead, Google
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Jose Antonio Vargas
Journalist, Filmmaker & Immigration Activist
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Julie Hanna
Technologist, Entrepreneur, Board Director, Investor and Advisor
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John Markoff
Technology & Science Reporter
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Ali Noorani
Executive Director of National Immigration Forum
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Ramez Naam
Author of "The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet"
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Rusty Schweickart
Astronaut
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Ann-Marie Slaughter
President and CEO of New America
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Elñora Tena Webb
President of Laney College
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Catherine Bracy
Co-Founder and Executive Director, TechEquity Collaborative
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Chris Anderson
CEO of 3D Robotics and Former Editor-in-Chief of WIRED Magazine
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Melissa Silverstein
Founder & Editor of Women and Hollywood
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Jen Pahlka
Founder & Executive Director of Code for America
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Manuel Pastor
Professor of Sociology & American Studies & Ethnicity at USC
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Martha Kanter
Distinguished Visiting Professor of Higher Education at NYU & former U.S. Under Secretary of Education
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Ted Hope
Head Of Motion Picture Production at Amazon Studios & former CEO of Fandor
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Donté Stallworth
National Security Fellow at The Huffington Post & former NFL wide receiver
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Susan Lund
Partner of McKinsey & Company
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Stephane Kasriel
CEO of Upwork
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Edward Luce
Chief U.S. Commentator & Columnist at the Financial Times
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Farshad Farahat
Actor & Member of the National Iranian American Council