New York, New York, United States
I've been a business journalist for 40 years! Yikes! I honed in on tech for the last three decades as a writer and conference moderator. Most recently I have pivoted towards learning and writing about climate tech and climate action. After a long career at Fortune and a hiatus writing a book about Facebook, in 2011 I founded New York-based conference and media company Techonomy Media. We organized events and created text and video content, all of it devoted to explaining and understanding the intersection of technology and progress. We aimed to be a community and nexus where business leaders intersected with tech innovators, and where leaders learned how to be better technologists for an age when every company is a tech company. We typically organized two annual invite-only Techonomy Conferences. In 2020 we moved our events online, and in 2022 resumed physical events, with Techonomy Climate and Techonomy 2022 in Sonoma. Climate action and climate journalism and convening has become a central focus of my work. In 2010 Simon & Schuster published my book The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company that is Connecting the World, and I continue closely to track Facebook and the global Internet industry, and threats that are posed to it by recklessly managed Facebook and other giants. The book is published in 32 languages, including Vietnamese and Catalan. At Fortune, where I worked for 25 years, I was Senior Editor for Internet & Technology and for six years wrote a weekly column called Fast Forward (mostly no longer online). I created and hosted Fortune's Brainstorm conference, beginning in 2001. I'm a believer in the power of technology as a critical tool to change the world for the better. In addition to writing and producing video for www.techonomy.com, I have written for Forbes, Vanity Fair, Time, and The Information. I also speak and moderate, focused on technology's intersection with the economy, the Internet, the climate crisis, Facebook, social media, and how all those things connect. Specialties: technology, business, Internet, climate tech, climate action, Facebook, international development, technology and development, digital divide, technology journalism, global issues, technology industry competition, innovation, competitiveness, technology competition.
CC aims to engage with businesspeople, investors, and policymakers to underscore the opportunities and challenges for business as we urgently remake society around a clean energy economy and to accelerate progress. I help produce and write their newsletter. Subscribe at https://theclimatecapitalist.com/
I'm writing about climate and tech here on LinkedIn and also for The Information, The Climate Capitalist, and others. Also working hard on shaping up a book about the vast coming climate economy.
Steel Stories (https://steelstoriespodcast.com/) is a podcast series about the changing shape of the steel industy as the climate crisis and sustainability requirements shift thinking and inspire change. I host the series. Guests range from leaders of steel industry organizations to experts in manufacturing and even AI in the steel industry.
Simon & Schuster published The Facebook Effect in North America and it has been published in 32 foreign editions, including Catalan, Croatian, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese. It was the first real reported history of Facebook. I obtained extensive cooperation from Zuckerberg and the company, making it as much as possible an authoritative account of the company's rise and a biography of its founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. I frequently speak publicly and in the press about Facebook and social media.
Commentary and analysis of developments in the tech industry and of how technology is transforming business and society.