The raging 2020s with Alec Ross

Alec Ross is a New York Times bestselling author whose latest book, The Raging 2020s, puts forth the idea that a new social contract could restore the balance of power between government, citizens, and business in modern America. In short, he spends a lot of time thinking about what’s next.<br /><br />Before he was one of the world’s leading experts on innovation, Alec was a night-shift janitor and a Baltimore school teacher. Currently, he is a board partner at Amplo, a global VC firm and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at The University of Bologna Business School. He has served as a senior fellow at both Johns Hopkins and Columbia Universities.<br /><br />Previously, he was Senior Advisor for Innovation to US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and also served Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign and on the Obama-Biden Presidential Transition Team.<br /><br />Alec is the author of the New York Times best-seller The Industries of the Future — which has been translated into 24 languages and was a best-seller on 5 continents.<br /><br />Alex Ross<br />Twitter: twitter.com/AlecJRoss<br /><br />You can follow Jessica Yellin here:<br />Instagram: instagram.com/jessicayellin​<br />Twitter: twitter.com/jessicayellin<br />Facebook: facebook.com/newsnotnoise<br />Website: NewsNotNoise.com<br />Newsletter: newsnotnoise.bulletin.com<br /><br />Support this work:<br />patreon.com/NewsNotNoise<br /><br />Jessica Yellin is the founder of News Not Noise, a channel dedicated to giving you news with real experts and providing information, not a panic attack. <br /><br />Jessica is a veteran of network news, traveling the globe, covering conflict and crisis. A former Chief White House Correspondent for CNN, she reported from around the world and won awards. <br /><br />Now, Yellin uses her voice to break down the news, calmly and clearly for you -- free of punditry, provocation, and yelling.