Azeem Azhar is an investor, entrepreneur and writer. He produces Exponential View, the leading newsletter and podcast on the impact of technology on our future economy and society. He is an investor in early-stage tech startups. His first book, Exponential, is published in September 2021.
Previously, he's been an award-winning entrepreneur founding the VC-backed, PeerIndex, which was acquired in 2014. He's also invested in more than 30 startups, with exits to Microsoft & Amazon, amongst others. The early part of Azeem's career took him to journalism, where he covered technology at The Guardian and The Economist. Azeem has also had strategy and innovation roles at the BBC and Thomson Reuters, and was on a non-executive board at Ofcom, the UK's converged communications regulator. He is an adviser to a number of senior executives on breakthrough technologies.