Fireside Chat - Azeem Azhar (Author, The Exponential Age) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)

We welcomed Azeem Azhar, author of The Exponential Age and founder of Exponential View, for a virtual fireside chat with FirstMark’s Matt Turck at Data Driven NYC in February 2022. He is the founder of Exponential View, the leading newsletter and podcast. Exponential View explores the political economy of the Exponential Age. It reaches more than 200,000 readers around the world. He is also an active startup investor, with investments in AI, work-from-home and climate change. He is on the board of the Ada Lovelace Institute and sits on the World Economic Forum's Global Futures Council on Digital Economy & Society, on the board of the Ada Lovelace Institute. Previously, he founded PeerIndex, a big data analytics firm acquired in 2015. Links Azeem Azhar's Twitter:   / azeem   Exponential View's Twitter:   / exponentialview   Sign up to the Exponential View newsletter: https://www.exponentialview.co/join/ Order The Exponential Age: https://t.co/6eairmhjK1 Matt Turck's Twitter:   / mattturck   FirstMark's Twitter:   / firstmarkcap   Data Driven NYC's website: https://www.datadrivennyc.com FirstMark's website: https://firstmarkcap.com/ FirstMark Careers: https://firstmarkcap.com/careers/ Outline 00:05 - Intro 00:37 - The Exponential Age 03:44 - Understanding exponentiality 05:30 - The Exponential Gap 07:51 - The superstar company 09:40 - Data network effect 12:06 - Antitrust law and the superstar company 13:47 - Exponential technologies and the labor market 16:15 - The return to local 19:12 - The new world disorder 23:42 - Close See Matt's blog post and the full transcript at: https://mattturck.com/ Data Driven NYC is a monthly event covering Big Data and data-driven products and startups, hosted by Matt Turck, partner at FirstMark Capital. Subscribe and register for upcoming Data Driven NYC events at https://firstmarkcap.com/events/data-...