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Keith Krach

East Coast United States, San Francisco
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Covers:  Business, Politics, Foreign Policy, China, Technology, Philanthropy and Leadership
CEO @Freedom250 • Chairman @techdiplomacy & U.S.-Taiwan Business Council • Former U.S. Under Secretary of State, DocuSign CEO & GM VP • Ariba co-founder

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Keith Krach is a frequent contributor to a broad variety of publications and media outlets, with articles covering business, politics, policy, technology, philanthropy and leadership. An American businessman, Silicon Valley innovator, philanthropist and public servant, Krach is noted for bringing transformational leadership to many sectors, including robotics, engineering, commerce, education, philanthropy, government and even the way people sign.

Krach served as Under Secretary of State (2019…

Keith Krach’s Journalist Portfolio

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The Senate just passed the next Apollo program

The Senate just passed the next Apollo program

By passing the U.S. Innovation and Competition Act, the Senate did its part to send a powerful message to our…

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How to beat China Inc.

How to beat China Inc.

In the first U.S.-China meeting of the Biden administration, the Chinese Communist Party's top diplomat Yang …

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Opinião: Construir um futuro seguro para o Brasil começa por redes 5G confiáveis

Opinião: Construir um futuro seguro para o Brasil começa por redes 5G confiáveis

Em minha recente visita ao Brasil, discuti a tecnologia sem fio de quinta geração, o 5G -tanto suas promessas…

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The free world must stand up to China's assault on the environment

The free world must stand up to China's assault on the environment

Sunday, November 29, 2020 The People's Republic of China (PRC) is one of the world's worst and largest pollut…

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Brazil Can Join the Growing Clean Network by Banning Huawei

Brazil Can Join the Growing Clean Network by Banning Huawei

September 1, 2020 Whoever builds a nation’s 5G networks gains the key to that country’s most sensitive person…

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Brasil pode fazer parte da Rede Limpa ao banir Huawei

Brasil pode fazer parte da Rede Limpa ao banir Huawei

Quem construir as redes 5G de uma nação ganhará a chave para os dados pessoais, comerciais e governamentais m…

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America bet everything on trust 250 years ago. That bet is being tested again

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By Keith Krach
| MSN Verified
A finance employee at the global design firm Arup transferred $25.6 million in a deepfake fraud after joining a video call with synthetic versions of senior executives. The faces looked real. The voices sounded real. The instructions were false. That was not an isolated warning. Starbucks quietly retired an AI inventory system only nine months after deployment after baristas reported that it miscounted products and slowed their work.
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America’s secret weapon isn’t just innovation — It’s the freedom to fail

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By Keith Krach
| Yahoo Finance Verified
For most of human history, failure carried consequences that lasted a lifetime. In many countries, failure closes doors. It limits opportunity. It follows people long after the moment itself has passed. That has never been the American way. From the beginning, the United States was built on a different idea— not just the freedom to succeed, but the freedom to fail, and more importantly, the freedom to try again. That was not a side effect of the system. It was one of its defining features.
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America turns 250. Its greatest innovation was never a product — it was a system that let anyone build one

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By Keith Krach
| Inkl
250 (Credit: Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images) For most of human history, progress required permission. To build something new, you needed approval from a monarch, a guild, or an authority. To rise, you needed to be allowed. Opportunity was not pursued. It was granted. Then came 1776. The Declaration of Independence did more than separate a colony from a crown. It introduced a fundamentally different system — one where individuals did not need to ask before they acted.
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