Jay Samit is a serial entrepreneur and disruptor. He has worked with Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Paul Allen, the Pope, and the President of the United States. He’s also the most recent former Vice Chairman of Deloitte. Over the decades Samit has built and sold many of his own companies, and he has been an executive or senior management at major companies including Sony, EMI and Universal Pictures. He has taken an equity stake in more than 80 companies; raised more than $800 million for start-ups; helped grow multibillion dollar juggernauts such as LinkedIn and eBay before they even IPO’d; and has revamped governments.

 

Samit talks about the importance and practice of being disruptive in your industry, which is the mantra he has had for decades, himself disrupting and causing major changes in industry after industry. His international major bestseller, “Disrupt You!,” now in print in dozens of languages, is critically acclaimed and a must-read according to the heaviest hitters in business. His March 2021 release, "Future Proofing You: 12 Truths for Creating Opportunity, Maximizing Wealth, and Controlling your Destiny in an Uncertain World," is critically acclaimed and set to be another bestseller.

 

Samit has always been at the forefront of emerging trends and is today known as a world-renowned expert in digital tech, artificial intelligence (AI), virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), smart wearables, the sharing economy, and autonomous tech.

 

Samit has been featured by The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, The Economist, Bloomberg, CNBC, WIRED, Fast Company, The New York Times, The Economic Times, Ad Age, Investor’s Business Daily, Tech Crunch, The Los Angeles Times, Yahoo, and more!