Chairman, OpenExO | Best-Selling Author – Exponential Organizations, ExO 2.0, and The Organizational Singularity (ExO 3.0) | Board Member – XPrize Foundation | Founding Executive Director – Singularity University | Former VP – Yahoo | Co-Host – Moonshots Podcast

Salim is a sought-after business strategist who presents globally to the leaders of many of the world's largest companies and Heads of State. His book "Exponential Organizations" is considered by many to be the go-to guide for 21st century organizations. The data shows that corporations that follow the ExO attributes deliver 40x shareholder returns compared to those that don't.

He is the co-host of the Moonshots podcast with Peter Diamandis, where he provides weekly insights on emerging technologies, AI, exponential growth strategies, and the future of innovation to over 1 million entrepreneurs and innovators worldwide. Recent guests include Elon Musk, Tony Robbins, Ray Kurzweil, Reid Hoffman and Eric Schmidt.

He has been featured across a vast array of media outlets, including The New York Times, CNBC, Bloomberg, BusinessWeek, Fortune, Forbes, WIRED, Vogue, Fox Business and the BBC.

He is the Founder and Chairman of OpenExO, which helps companies to implement the lessons from Exponential Organizations by emulating the world's fastest growing companies. They inspire innovators to replace incremental innovation with 10X improvements, implement groundbreaking technologies and profitably achieve large-scale social impact. They have created billions of dollars of return on investment over the past 4 years for clients, including Procter & Gamble, HP, Visa, BHP, and Stanley Black & Decker.

Salim is the author of Exponential Organizations, published originally in 2014, followed by the much-anticipated second edition, Exponential Organizations 2.0, released in 2023. His third book, The Organizational Singularity (ExO 3.0), explores how leaders can rebuild their organizations around AI — redesigning them around intelligence, purpose, and autonomous execution so they can sense, decide, and adapt at unprecedented speed. Both Exponential Organizations and ExO 2.0 are global best-sellers. Learn more at www.organizationalsingularity.com.

Salim is a serial entrepreneur, having founded several technology companies including Ångströ, which was acquired by Google. As a VP at Yahoo, he led Brickhouse, Yahoo!'s internal incubator. He was the Founding Executive Director of Singularity University and serves on the Board of the XPRIZE Foundation. These associations give him extraordinary access to the most influential innovators of our time, plus technologies and business ideas while they are in stealth mode.

Salim's breadth of work experience combined with his global outlook (he has lived in eight countries for at least a year each) give him a uniquely macro vision of how the institutions that underpin our society and economy are broken and should be fixed. His epiphany-inducing presentations are known for impressing even the most skeptical listeners.

As the Chairman of OpenExO and a global best-selling author of Exponential Organizations and ExO 2.0, Salim is one of the world's most sought-after business strategists. His latest book, The Organizational Singularity (ExO 3.0), explores how leaders can rebuild their organizations around AI. He co-hosts the Moonshots podcast with Peter Diamandis, reaching over 1 million entrepreneurs weekly with insights on emerging technologies and exponential innovation. He has shown that organizations adopting his ExO attributes deliver 40x shareholder returns. Formerly a Founding Executive Director of Singularity University and VP at Yahoo, Salim provides a unique, macro vision of how to implement 10X improvements for both massive business success and large-scale social impact.

The firm is being rewritten. AI is collapsing the coordination costs that made hierarchy necessary — and a new organizational architecture is emerging in its place. In this talk, Salim introduces the Organizational Singularity: the inflection point at which traditional structures give way to Intelligence-Stack-native companies built on ten ExO 3.0 characteristics. Five make you fast and smart. Five keep you tight and resilient. This is the operating model of the next decade — and the companies that adopt it first will define their industries.

Salim describes major breakthroughs occurring in a series of accelerating technologies like artificial intelligence, robotics, biotech, sensors, neuroscience, medicine, and even energy. He describes the implications of these breakthroughs on both society and business, and will give a perspective on their impact tailored to each specific audience.

Drawing upon insights from his latest book, "Exponential Organizations 2.0," Salim emphasizes the critical role AI plays in the rapidly evolving business landscape. He provides a comprehensive analysis of AI's seismic impact across various sectors, underscoring the urgent need for organizations to understand and harness this disruptive technology for survival and growth.

As a result of accelerating change, a new breed of businesses is scaling ten times faster than established organizational structures. Salim describes the characteristics and attributes of these exponential organizations, and finishes with how to implement these ideas into established companies.

From ExO to ExO 3.0.

In 2014, Salim published Exponential Organizations — the book that named the operating pattern behind the fastest-growing companies of the decade. Companies that followed its principles outperformed those that didn't by 40×.

A decade later, AI has changed the operating logic of the firm itself. Coordination cost — the reason firms exist — is collapsing. Workflows can now improve themselves at machine speed. Hierarchy is no longer the primary way work gets done.

That inflection point is the Organizational Singularity. The new architecture that replaces hierarchy is ExO 3.0 — and Exponential Venture Capital backs founders building around it from day one.

Health, education, climate, security, food, water, housing, governance, financial inclusion, and the next generation of media and culture.

Founders treat their operating model — agents, data objects, decision rights, governance — as a first-class design problem, not an IT project.

They are willing to apply the ExO 3.0 playbook rather than bolt AI onto a traditional org chart.

GOVERN / ASSURE — Trusted Evals, Searchable Logs, Granular Rollback, and a Human Review Queue — runs in production from the first commit.

Right-sized to the stage and the build.

ExO 3.0 and the Intelligence Stack designed into the company from week one.

GOVERN / ASSURE — operational from day one, not bolted on later.

Direct working time with Salim and the senior OpenExO operators, plus early access to the latest ExO ideas, tools, and frameworks.

Domain-expert coaches and AI agents from the OpenExO ecosystem of 1,600+ trained practitioners.

Everything learned with one portfolio company gets compounded into the next.

The 99 Kids.
Q1 2026.

The fund's first investment is in The 99 Kids — a values-driven children's media company built on the belief that every child deserves access to stories that reflect their culture, language, and inner courage.

The company uses AI to produce personalized, age-appropriate content at scale — and serves as the pilot environment for applying the Organizational Singularity playbook inside a venture-backed company. Every lesson feeds directly into future fund investments.

Disruptive
Convergence

Salim describes major breakthroughs occurring in a series of accelerating technologies — artificial intelligence, robotics, biotech, sensors, neuroscience, medicine, and energy. He describes the implications of these breakthroughs on both society and business, giving a perspective on their impact tailored to each specific audience.

This is the talk for audiences who need to understand not just one technology, but how the simultaneous acceleration of dozens of technologies creates disruption events that no single-technology lens can anticipate.

Artificial
Intelligence

The talk that makes skeptics believers.

Drawing upon insights from "Exponential Organizations 2.0," Salim emphasizes the critical role AI plays in the rapidly evolving business landscape. He provides a comprehensive analysis of AI's seismic impact across various sectors, underscoring the urgent need for organizations to understand and harness this disruptive technology for survival and growth.

The discussion extends to illustrate how exponential attributes — interfaces, algorithms, and dashboards — can be employed to leverage AI effectively within an organization. Salim also shares practical strategies for cultivating an AI-ready culture that promotes agility and innovation, and delves into real-world case studies of AI-driven exponential organizations.

Exponential
Organizations

As a result of accelerating change, a new breed of businesses is scaling ten times faster than established organizational structures. Salim calls these Exponential Organizations. The talk describes the characteristics and attributes of these organizations — and finishes with how to implement these ideas into established companies.

This is the foundational talk that sparked a global movement. Based on the bestselling book and updated with a decade of new case studies, it gives leadership teams the vocabulary and framework to begin their own exponential transformation.

Salim's team researches your industry, competitive landscape, and specific leadership questions before building the presentation. Nothing is generic.

Salim stays for extended Q&A. Your leadership team gets direct, unscripted access to one of the world's leading exponential strategists.

Salim's presentations are known for impressing even the most skeptical listeners. His global experience across 8 countries and dozens of industries produces a perspective your audience won't find elsewhere.

The
Half-Day Workshop

Structured around the core strategic challenges your leadership team is facing. Salim opens with a cutting-edge framing keynote, followed by a guided working session where teams apply the ExO framework directly to their context.

Salim is one of the most in-demand speakers in the world. His travel calendar is packed — and securing an in-person date can take months. Virtual removes every one of those constraints while delivering the same strategic depth and customization your leadership team needs.

Every virtual keynote is purpose-built for your audience, includes live Q&A with Salim, and is delivered with the same research depth and customization as an in-person engagement. The only thing missing is the flight.

Leadership teams are distributed across cities and countries. Virtual makes it possible to bring the world's leading exponential strategist to your leadership meeting without requiring everyone in the same room.

Organizations with leadership teams across multiple time zones or geographies who want to align around a shared strategic vision without the cost and complexity of a global offsite.

When an AI development, competitive disruption, or market shift demands your leadership get aligned fast — virtual lets you get Salim in front of your team in weeks, not months.