George Gilder is Chairman of George Gilder Fund Management, LLC and host of the
Gilder Telecosm Forum. He is also a Senior Fellow at
Discovery Institute where he directs Discovery's program on high technology and public policy, and the former Editor in Chief of the
Gilder Technology Report (published by Forbes Inc., 1996-2007).
Born in 1939 in New York City, Mr. Gilder attended
Exeter Academy and Harvard University. At Harvard,
he studied under Henry Kissinger and helped
found Advance, a journal of political thought,
which he edited and helped to re-establish in
Washington, DC after his graduation in 1962.
During this period he co-authored
The Party That Lost Its Head. He later
returned to Harvard as a fellow at the Kennedy
Institute of Politics and editor of the
Ripon
Forum. In the 1960s Mr. Gilder also served as
a speechwriter for several prominent official
and candidates, including Nelson Rockefeller,
George Romney, and Richard Nixon. In the 1970s,
as an independent researcher and writer, Mr.
Gilder began an excursion into the causes of
poverty, which resulted in his books
Men and
Marriage (1972) and
Visible Man (1978); and
hence, of wealth, which led to his best-selling
Wealth and Poverty (1981).
Mr. Gilder pioneered the formulation of supply-side
economics when he served as Chairman of the
Lehrman Institute's Economic Roundtable, as
Program Director for the Manhattan Institute,
and as a frequent contributor to A.B. Laffer's
economic reports and the editorial page of
The
Wall Street Journal.
In the 1980s he also consulted leaders of America's
high technology businesses. According to a study
of presidential speeches, Mr. Gilder was President
Reagan's most frequently quoted living author.
In 1986, President Reagan gave George Gilder
the White House Award for Entrepreneurial Excellence.
In 1996 Gilder was made a Fellow of the International
Engineering Consortium. The investigation into
wealth creation led Mr. Gilder into deeper examination
of the lives of present-day entrepreneurs, culminating
in many articles and a book,
The Spirit
of Enterprise (1986). The book was revised
and republished in 1992. That many of the most
interesting current entrepreneurs were to be
found in high technology fields also led Mr.
Gilder, over several years, to examine this
subject in depth. In his best-selling work,
Microcosm (1989), he explored the quantum
roots of the new electronic technologies. A
subsequent book,
Life After Television,
was a prophecy of the future of computers and
telecommunications and a prelude to his book
on the future of telecommunications,
Telecosm
(2000).
Mr. Gilder's latest book
The Silicon Eye (2005)
travels the rocky road of the entrepreneur on
the promising path of disruption, and celebrates
some of smartest-and most colorful-technology
minds of our time. In this fascinating narrative
of personality and technology, Gilder shares
his insider knowledge of Silicon Valley and
illustrates how the unpredictable mix of genius,
drive, and luck that can turn a startup into
a Fortune 500 company.
Mr. Gilder hosts the web's premier technology investment discussion forum, the
Gilder Telecosm Forum, and co-hosts (with Steve Forbes)
the annual
Gilder/Forbes Telecosm Conference, both of which offer elite analysis of ascending and disruptive technologies affecting management and investment decisions of investors, executives, engineers and entrepreneurs. The Gilder Telecosm Forum is a powerful network of talented, tech-savvy investors and thinkers that collaborate online daily by utilizing the very technologies that Gilder celebrated for eleven years in
Gilder Technology Report.
Mr. Gilder lives in Tyringham, Massachusetts, in the
Berkshire Mountains, where he is an active churchman,
sometime runner, and with his wife Nini, parent
of four children.
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