Murray is an entrepreneur and venture capital investor in Silicon Valley. He is a Partner at IA Seed Ventures, where he invests in early-stage Silicon Valley companies, a Partner at Tilden Capital, and the founder of Open Future Forum, a Silicon Valley executive community he started in 2019 that runs private invitation-only dinners for C-suite leaders and open events for the AI and tech community, including a dedicated CFO Executive Forum. The Huffington Post named him one of its Top 10 People to Know. His earlier work includes a key strategic role at Turing.com, where he helped with a fundraising round ahead of the company’s $4 billion valuation. He also advised the Draper Nexus Network of Things Fund, and was previously a partner at OnePiece Labs, the web3 division of Uphonest Capital. As a contributing writer, Murray has shared his expertise in publications such as Forbes, The Guardian, Inc Magazine, Time, Business Insider, Entrepreneur Magazine, and Mashable. He graduated from London Metropolitan University with a BA in Laws. He gained his Green Card after the US government recognized him as an “alien of extraordinary ability.” Newlands is the author of “Online Marketing: A User’s Manual” published by John Wiley & Sons. He has also published “How to Get PR for your Startup: Traction” and “Content Marketing Strategies for Professionals”.
I run an executive community, so read this with the appropriate grain of salt. But I get asked the same question often enough that it is worth writing down. With so many options now, how does a senior leader actually choose one? Here is how I would think about it if I were on the …
Most executive communities sort people by title. There is a CFO group, a CISO group, a CMO group, and they rarely meet. I went the other way with Open Future Forum, and it is worth explaining why. AI does not respect the org chart. When a company decides how to use AI, the finance leader …
People assume an invitation to a private dinner is about status. Title, company, net worth. It is not, at least not for the rooms I run. The community I built, Open Future Forum, is based on a simple idea from Adam Grant’s book Give and Take: the people who give the most to a room …
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