John Wolpert

John Wolpert

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
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Chief Product Officer, Author, Speaker, Board Member

Author of "The Two But Rule:…

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Experience

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    United States

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    Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

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    San Francisco Bay Area

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    San Francisco Bay Area

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    Santa Clara CA

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    San Francisco

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    Sydney, Australia

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    Austin, Texas, United States

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    New York

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    Berkeley, CA

Education

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    University of California, Berkeley

    Activities and Societies: Student Chairman, Rockefeller International House

    Graduated with Honors

  • Activities and Societies: Chair, Culture Communication and Technology group - a joint student organization between the business school, the law school and the public policy school.

  • Transferred to UC Berkeley.

Publications

  • The Two But Rule: Turn Negative Thinking Into Positive Solutions

    Wiley

    Introducing The Two But Rule, a groundbreaking book that will revolutionize the way you and your teams approach problem-solving in today's complex world.

    With a blend of humor and stories from the realms of technology, entrepreneurship and history, The Two But Rule will help you break through avoidance patterns and achieve momentum in everything from changing careers and starting a business to tackling the biggest challenges facing humanity.

    Preorder it today wherever you buy…

    Introducing The Two But Rule, a groundbreaking book that will revolutionize the way you and your teams approach problem-solving in today's complex world.

    With a blend of humor and stories from the realms of technology, entrepreneurship and history, The Two But Rule will help you break through avoidance patterns and achieve momentum in everything from changing careers and starting a business to tackling the biggest challenges facing humanity.

    Preorder it today wherever you buy books, and subscribe to 2buts.com to join our merry band of ButHeads with exclusive content, private (and public) 2Buts brainstorming sessions, and support to help you solve problems and capture new opportunities.

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  • Agency Representation

    Linda Chester Literary Agency

    John Wolpert is represented by the Linda Chester Literary Agency, home to a wide variety of adult literary and commercial fiction writers such as Daniel Wilson, author of the Best Selling Robocalypse series, as well as an array of non-fiction authors.

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  • What Watching Too Much Star Trek Will Get You

    Harvard Business Review

    I like a good unsolvable problem. Here's the big one that has faced me my whole career.

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  • The Hidden Stage

    Booksurge Publishing

    In 2003, my editor asked me for a middle-grade (Harry Potter-level) novel about the theater. I told her that it was a "boring" subject for a book, always with the "we need to put on a show to save the theater" plot. Snore. She curtly replied, "Then write me one that isn't boring." So I did. Five years later, it was done. The book is currently being shopped by my agent, so it is no longer available online, but stay tuned. Reprints of original edition can be found on Amazon.

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  • Managing Collaborative Business Innovation

    Today’s dual imperatives for business model change and external collaboration have leaders seeking better ways to share their business intentions without tipping their hand.

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  • Breaking Out of the Innovation Box

    Harvard Business Review

    Sustainable innovation requires a new approach: Instead of being largely isolated projects, innovation initiatives need to gain access to the insights and capabilities of other companies. But how can businesses traffic in such sensitive information without giving their competitors an advantage?

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Patents

  • COGNITIVE MEDIATOR FOR GENERATING BLOCKCHAIN SMART CONTRACTS

    Issued 20190034402

    An AI, cognitive mediator for generating blockchain smart contracts.

    Other inventors
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  • Method and System for Transdermal Drug Delivery

    Issued US 20080319370

    A method for transdermal delivery of a topically applied physiologically active agent, wherein the method comprises the steps of: (i) applying a pulse of electrical energy to an area of the skin; and (ii) contacting the area of the skin with a topical transdermal composition comprising at least one physiologically active agent, a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier and optionally at least one dermal penetration enhancer.

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    • Nina Wilkins
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Courses

  • Machine Learning

    Stanford

Projects

  • Solving the “We Need To Share But We Can’t Share” problem.

    In 2001, Nick Donofrio, then SVP of IBM Technology, posed this conundrum:
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    We spend billions in research, but many billions more are being spent by others. If we all knew everything about each other's work, who knows what we might discover together? But...even though we can share some open source work, there's a lot more we can't share.
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    This problem became a career's challenge. After spending many millions running dozens of experiments all over the world – with enterprises…

    In 2001, Nick Donofrio, then SVP of IBM Technology, posed this conundrum:
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    We spend billions in research, but many billions more are being spent by others. If we all knew everything about each other's work, who knows what we might discover together? But...even though we can share some open source work, there's a lot more we can't share.
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    This problem became a career's challenge. After spending many millions running dozens of experiments all over the world – with enterprises, governments, startups and venture capitalists – the result is a clear set of insights, practices and technologies to help legally-separate entities reduce costs, increase customer value, and innovate together...without having to risk information leaks, misappropriation and misalignment.

    My first attempt at addressing this conundrum took me to Australia, the UK and Germany, implementing private/public partnerships that used trusted intermediaries to carefully find win-win connections between legally separate entities without directly exposing information between them. It worked, but it didn’t scale. Today, we have zero knowledge cryptography, AI (in particular, transposing vectors and comparing corpora under encryption) and other techniques to automate and scale our ability to improve multi-party coordination and cooperation without having to risk data leaks or misappropriation of private intentions.

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