Alexandre Lazarow
| Alexandre Lazarow | |
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| 💼 Occupation | Author, speaker, venture capitalist |
| 👶 Children | 2 |
| 🌐 Website | alexlazarow |
Alex Lazarow is an author, speaker and global venture capitalist.[1][2]
Education
Lazarow studied for an MBA at Harvard Business School and received his Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Manitoba.[3] He is a Kauffman Fellow, a CFA Charterholder, and a Stephen M. Kellen Term Member at the Council on Foreign Relations.[4]
Career
Lazarow is the founder and managing partner of a global venture capital firm, Fluent Ventures.[5] He was previously a partner with Cathay Innovation and worked with Omidyar Network, McKinsey & Co, Bank of Canada and the Royal Bank of Canada.[3]
Lazarow is also an adjunct professor at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies, where he taught entrepreneurship and impact investing.[6]
His debut book Out-Innovate: How Global Entrepreneurs - from Delhi to Detroit - Are Rewriting the Rules of Silicon Valley, was published with Harvard Business Review Press in 2020.[7][8]
Lazarow coined the term Camel referring to the startups that are based on a foundation of sustainability and resilience, focused on managing risk and building customer trust.[9][10] Lazarow is a columnist at Forbes[11] and Entrepreneur Magazine[12]. He has also contributed to a number of publications including Harvard Business Review, The Globe and Mail[1], TechCrunch[13], VentureBeat[14], NextBillion[15], Kauffman Fellows Journal[4], the Atlantic Council[16] and McKinsey Quarterly[17]
Awards and nominations
Out-Innovate was ranked at the top in “Summer Books of 2020” reading list by Financial Times[18] and "Top Books To Inform Your Technology And Innovation Strategy” by Forbes[19] and was one of the three finalists for McKinsey and The Financial Times’ Bracken Bower prize.[20]
Personal life
Lazarow lives with his family and two children in Mill Valley, California.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Opinion: It's been a bad year for tech, but that's OK – the future is bright". The Globe and Mail. December 22, 2022 – via www.theglobeandmail.com.
- ↑ Dumas, Breck (2023-03-13). "Silicon Valley Bank collapse rocks start-up community". FOXBusiness. Retrieved 2023-03-18.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Alexandre Lazarow | Psychology Today". www.psychologytoday.com.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "The Case for Camels". Kauffman Fellows.
- ↑ "Fluent Ventures Investor Profile: Portfolio & Exits | PitchBook". pitchbook.com.
- ↑ "Alex Lazarow | Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey". www.middlebury.edu.
- ↑ Lazarow, Alexandre "Alex" (2020-04-07). Out-Innovate: How Global Entrepreneurs--from Delhi to Detroit--Are Rewriting the Rules of Silicon Valley. Harvard Business Press. ISBN 978-1-63369-759-1. Search this book on
- ↑ "Out-Innovate: How Global Entrepreneurs--from Delhi to Detroit--Are Rewriting the Rules of Silicon Valley ^ 10269". HBR Store.
- ↑ Lazarow, Alex (October 16, 2020). "Startups, It's Time to Think Like Camels — Not Unicorns". Harvard Business Review – via hbr.org.
- ↑ "Silicon Valley Camels, will you please stand up". Kauffman Fellows.
- ↑ "Alex Lazarow". Forbes.
- ↑ "Alex Lazarow - Author Biography". Entrepreneur.
- ↑ Riggs, David (November 27, 2018). "The innovation supply chain: How ideas traverse continents and transform economies".
- ↑ "Distributed teams are helping startups scale faster". July 6, 2019.
- ↑ "Frontier Innovators: A New Roadmap for Social Impact - NextBillion". nextbillion.net.
- ↑ "Silicon Valley's role in foreign policy and what others can learn from it, Part II: Ecosystem building advice and policy recommendations". December 18, 2020.
- ↑ "Innovation in government: Brazil | McKinsey". www.mckinsey.com.
- ↑ "Summer books of 2020: Business". Financial Times. June 22, 2020.
- ↑ Matveeva, Sophia. "Top Books To Inform Your Technology And Innovation Strategy". Forbes.
- ↑ "Bracken Bower Prize 2017: excerpts from finalists' proposals". Financial Times. October 31, 2017.
External links
Alexandre Lazarow at Crunchbase
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