Jared Cohen is the director of Google Ideas, a think/do tank that combines a new generation of thinkers with technology to seed initiatives around some of the critical challenges of contemporary life. He is also a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and a non-fiction author. Previously, Cohen served as a member of the Secretary of State’s Policy Planning Staff and as a close advisor to both Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton. Cohen is the author of Children of Jihad and One Hundred Days of Silence. He received his BA from Stanford University and his M.Phil in International Relations from Oxford University.
Jared Cohen, Jigsaw and author, Accidental Presidents
This State Department veteran is now CEO of Alphabet’s Jigsaw business, which works to make the world safer. He also just wrote a book about Vice Presidents who became President. Seeing connections is his job. The following transcript has been lightly edited and condensed for ease of reading. David Kirkpatrick: Jared, come out here. […]
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The world is in sad shape, which means, among other challenging realities, that all of us need to ensure our work contributes to larger solutions. Tech changes everything, which we love, but it can’t just be a way to make more money.
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