Rich Karlgaard

Silicon Valley

Editor-at-Large at Forbes

@Forbes publisher, columnist, speaker and bestselling author. My book, #LateBloomers, available in paperback now!

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AI Wealth Disruption

1 month ago | forbes.com | Rich Karlgaard

In his first month, President Donald Trump let loose a barrage of U.S. policy pivots. But I dare say Trump was trumped by China’s DeepSeek, a free AI-powered chatbot that began modestly as a side project inside a $8 billion hedge fund. On Jan. 27, DeepSeek appeared like a meteor over the Chinese New Year, shaking billions in AI investments around the world. The AI world hasn’t stopped quaking. Three questions to think about:Deeper Meaning of DeepSeek?
Proven Growth Formula

Nov 10, 2024 | msn.com | Rich Karlgaard

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Proven Growth Formula

Nov 10, 2024 | forbes.com | Rich Karlgaard

This story appears in the November 2024 issue of Forbes Asia. Subscribe to Forbes AsiaThis month Forbes will host its 22nd Forbes Global CEO Conference in Bangkok. Among the attendees and speakers will be famous entrepreneurs, leaders of world-beating companies, sovereign wealth funds, venture capital and private equity firms, and an intellectual splash of leading economists.
The Great Debate

Oct 10, 2024 | forbes.com | Rich Karlgaard

This story appears in the October 2024 issue of Forbes Asia. Subscribe to Forbes AsiaQuick quiz: Choose the smartest way to run your company: “founder mode” “manager mode.”Watch sparks fly if you ask the above question in a hotbed of entrepreneurship such as Silicon Valley.
Bits And Atoms

Sep 10, 2024 | msn.com | Rich Karlgaard

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Bits And Atoms

Sep 10, 2024 | forbes.com | Rich Karlgaard

This story appears in the September 2024 issue of Forbes Asia. Subscribe to Forbes AsiaWe predicted 2024 would be a year of geopolitical risk, and it has been. Next is 2025 without so many elections. Will the world settle down? Don’t count on it. What won’t disappear in 2025 are the deep convictions that separate people. Example: Many say climate is a looming catastrophe; others do not.
Navigating America’s Populism

Aug 12, 2024 | forbes.com | Rich Karlgaard

This story appears in the August 2024 issue of Forbes Asia. Subscribe to Forbes AsiaHere’s a guess that Donald Trump will win the American election in November. The race has tightened. (At the start of August, Trump was a 10:9 favorite in the betting markets vs. Kamala Harris, who is gaining fast.) Question for Asia: If Trump wins, which Trump will govern? Trump, the raging populist, an isolationist who will erect barriers to immigration and trade and devalue the U.S. dollar?
Three Sure Things

Jul 8, 2024 | forbes.com | Rich Karlgaard

“It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future,” said the former American baseball player, Yogi Berra. The old catcher’s cheeky warning aside, let me offer three. They are as close to sure bets as can be. Nuclear’s ReturnThe late Intel CEO, Andrew Grove, said he was lucky to have chosen semiconductors over nuclear power as his life’s work.
Smarts In The Age Of AI

May 30, 2024 | forbes.com | Rich Karlgaard

In April, at the end of the American college basketball season, Coach Tara VanDerveer retired. She won a record 1,216 games as a college head coach, most of them at Stanford University, where she had coached the women’s team since 1985. Here is a promise. If you study Coach VanDerveer’s career, you will deepen your understanding of what it means to be smart in the age of AI. One of her secrets was lateral thinking. Now here’s a prediction.
Electricity Wars

Apr 21, 2024 | forbes.com | Rich Karlgaard

Last month, U.S. chip company Nvidia announced a new AI computing platform called Blackwell. Thought AI was moving fast? Blackwell will run 30 times faster than Nvidia’s current best chip, said CEO Jensen Huang. (Huang, 61, worth an estimated $79 billion, was born in Tainan in southwestern Taiwan. He lived in Thailand from ages 5 to 9, and was sent to America to live with an uncle in the 1970s.)AI’s arrival on the world stage seems sudden.

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