Scott Hartley Keynote Speaker

Scott Hartley is an entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and best-selling author of THE FUZZY AND THE TECHIE (Harper Collins, 2017), a Financial Times business book of the month (April 2017), Axiom Business Book Award winner, and finalist for the Financial Times and McKinsey & Company’s Bracken Bower Prize for an author under 35.

Scott is co-founder and managing partner of The Fund through which he has invested in over 200 startup companies. His book is available in a dozen versions around the world, published by Penguin Random House in India, and a Top 10 Business Book of 2021 in Spain.

He is a global keynote speaker on ethics in technology, future of work, and human skills in our technology age. He has served as a Presidential Innovation Fellow at the White House under President Obama, and a Partner at Mohr Davidow Ventures (MDV), a $2 billion dollar fund in Silicon Valley.

Prior to venture capital, Scott worked at Google, Facebook, and Harvard. He has been a contributing author at MIT Press, has written for publications such as The Financial Times, and Foreign Policy, and has been featured in USA Today, Harvard Business Review and The Wall Street Journal. He holds three degrees from Stanford and Columbia, is a Term Member at the Council on Foreign Relations, and has visited 75 countries.

Some of his past speaking engagements include Visa, Google, UBS, Fidelity, Swedbank, World Bank/IMF Annual Meeting, as well as universities like Arizona, Purdue, Stanford, the 50th Anniversary university lecture at Century College, Global Entrepreneurship Summits in Malaysia and Kenya, and MIT events around the world.

The general themes for his talk are the future of work, technology trends, and future of education. He has been a convocation speaker for incoming freshman classes as well.

Watch Scott speak with PBS Newshour here on the future of work.