Salim Ismail

Ismail was born in Hyderabad and moved to Toronto at the age of ten. He studied at the University of Waterloo. ¹

Ismail co-founded the early social and technology companies PubSub Concepts and Confabb, and the location-aware social network Ångströ, which Google acquired in 2010. He led Brickhouse, Yahoo's internal incubator for new products. In 2008 he became the founding executive director of Singularity University, the Silicon Valley education venture. His book Exponential Organizations (2014), written with Michael S. Malone and Yuri van Geest, set out how organisations scale at the pace of information technology; he later founded ExO Works and the OpenExO platform to apply the model, and has served on the XPRIZE board and as chairman of Genius Group. ¹

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