Soren Gordhamer has spent his life exploring the relationship between modern technology and ancient wisdom.

He is the founder of Wisdom 2.0 and the Wisdom & AI Summit. He is also a Founding General Partner at Wisdom Ventures, which is focused on tech-enabled well-being and an early investor in Anthropic, OpenAI, Function Health, and other companies.

For 20 years, he has organized gatherings and interviewed the CEOs and founders of nearly every major tech company, including LinkedIn, Meta, Twitter, OpenAI, and Anthropic.

Before that, he ran a nonprofit working with incarcerated teens in New York City and spent a year on a global environmental walk across the US and Asia.

His latest book is calledThe Essential.

“The Essential reminds us to not lose focus on what matters most: maintaining our shared humanity.”

— Jeff Weiner, Executive Chairman, LinkedIn