Open Future Forum is open to press inquiries about the Silicon Valley executive community for the AI era, Forum Select, Forum Events, and Murray Newlands' work as an investor and community builder. Murray is available for interviews, on-record commentary, and background conversations on topics including AI executive networks, the changing shape of senior leadership in the AI era, venture capital, and the Give and Take philosophy.
For press inquiries, reach out via the apply page. Mention "Press" in the subject line and Murray will respond within 48 hours during business weeks.
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Why senior AI leaders are spending less time on conference stages and more time in 12-person dinners. The architecture of trust networks. What makes a private executive room work or fail.
The Chief AI Officer role: hype vs reality. How CFOs are evaluating AI ROI. How CISOs are handling agentic AI risk. How public-company boards are governing AI.
How founder selection has changed in the AI era. The Give and Take philosophy as an investing thesis. The role of trust networks in early-stage capital.
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Murray Newlands is the founder of Open Future Forum, the Silicon Valley executive community for the AI era, and Partner at IASV Seed Ventures.
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Murray Newlands is the founder of Open Future Forum, a Silicon Valley executive community for the AI era, and Partner at IASV Seed Ventures. He was previously a C-level executive at Turing.com, where the team scaled the company to a $4 billion valuation. Murray is a contributor to Forbes, Inc., Time, Entrepreneur, The Guardian, Business Insider and Mashable, and the author of Online Marketing: A User's Manual (Wiley). 1.4M+ followers on X. 50,000+ subscribers on Substack.
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Murray Newlands is the founder of Open Future Forum, a Silicon Valley executive community for the AI era, and Partner at IASV Seed Ventures, an early-stage technology investor.
Murray spent two decades in technology as an operator, investor, writer and community builder. As a C-level executive at Turing.com, he helped scale the company to a $4 billion valuation. As an investor at IASV Seed Ventures, he backs AI and technology founders at the seed stage. As a writer, he has contributed to Forbes, Inc., Time, Entrepreneur, The Guardian, Business Insider and Mashable, and authored Online Marketing: A User's Manual (Wiley).
Murray founded Open Future Forum in 2019 on a single conviction: the leaders who will shape the AI era are not the ones with the most resources but the ones with the best networks, and the best networks are the most generous ones. Forum Select, the private invitation-only tier, gathers C-suite executives and board directors for quarterly off-the-record dinners in San Francisco and Palo Alto. Forum Events, the open public tier, hosts panels, firesides and summits for the broader AI and technology community. Murray writes weekly on Substack to 50,000+ subscribers, and reaches 1.4M+ on X.
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