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Jay Samit

  • Serial Disruptor, Bestselling Author and Keynote Speaker, JaySamit.com
Los Angeles
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Bestselling author Jay Samit, is a dynamic entrepreneur and intrepreneur who is widely recognized as one of the world’s leading experts on disruption and innovation. Described by Wired magazine as “having the coolest job in the industry,” he has raised hundreds of millions of dollars for startups, sold companies to Fortune 500 firms, transforms entire industries, revamps government institutions, and for three decades continues to be at the forefront of global trends.
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Why Digital Reality Will Have Its Biggest Holiday Season Ever

Why Digital Reality Will Have Its Biggest Holiday Season Ever

Virtual reality, or VR, and augmented reality, or AR, are playing bigger roles during the Christmas and holid…

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Here's how virtual reality is being used to treat the sick

Here's how virtual reality is being used to treat the sick

Advances in virtual reality, wearables, and 5G may have a major impact on healthcare.

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Augmented Reality May Reinvigorate These 3 Industries

Augmented Reality May Reinvigorate These 3 Industries

Augmented Reality, or AR, may give struggling businesses a lift by helping car designers, doctors, and bricks…

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Driving a car will be illegal by 2030

Driving a car will be illegal by 2030

Our economy will be severely impacted as millions of lorry drivers, cabbies and delivery people are put out o…

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OTT Video Is Creating Cord-Extenders, Not Cord-Cutters

OTT Video Is Creating Cord-Extenders, Not Cord-Cutters

This year's Emmy ballot is being culled from the greatest number of scripted dramas eligible in the history o…

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Jay Samit: The 3 Secret Words for Raising Startup Capital

Jay Samit: The 3 Secret Words for Raising Startup Capital

With Uber raising $2 billion at a reported $50 billion valuation and hundreds of startups announcing $1 milli…

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My Comics Feature The Issues People Struggle With These Days, And Here Are My 24 Best Works

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By Gabriela Zagórska, Jay Samit
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I paint to stay sane in an insane world. Pop culture is no longer a mass media shared experience, but rather an all-too-alienating private interaction manipulated by powerful technology designed to dominate how we live, love, work, and think. Artificial intelligence influences who we date, what we consume, watch, and believe. I spent decades innovating and creating the very technologies that now control us.
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Anthro-Vision

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By Gillian Tett, Joseph Henrich, Jay Samit, Fareed Zakaria 
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In an age when the business world is dominated by technology and data analysis, award-winning financial journalist and anthropology PhD Gillian Tett presents a radically different strategy for success: Businesses can revolutionize their understanding of behavior by studying consumers, markets, and organizations through an anthropological lens. Amid severe digital disruption, economic upheaval, and political flux, how can we make sense of the world?
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What was your first job as a journalist?

ghostwriter and researcher for a book by Ralph Nader

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Published over 200 pieces pounded out on a 1920's Royal

How is social media changing news?

Now news is a dialog...not a monologue.

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