John Wolpert is an esteemed speaker, writer and thinker in technology and business innovation. As a CEO, product executive, and advisor, he’s been at the vanguard of technological breakthroughs from the early days of the Web to the rise of artificial intelligence.

John is known for founding Flywheel, a pioneer in the ride-hailing industry. His work at IBM made him a key figure in the evolution of open source software, blockchain, and AI.

He’s co-founded global R&D consortia and industry standards bodies, and his thought leadership on Open Innovation has been show cased in the Harvard Business Review.

In his first book, THE TWO BUT RULE: Turn Negative Thinking into Positive Solutions (Wiley) is putting the ‘but’ back into conversations and behind a new way of thinking.

John connects with Lou in this “buts allowed” episode of Thrive LouD.

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