Techonomy Media Techonomy Media Techonomy Media Inc. is an American conference and media company founded in 2011 and headquartered in New York, NY. Techonomy organizes the annual invitation-only thought leadership Techonomy conference, which focuses on how the accelerating advancement of technology is transforming business and can help address the world's pressing needs. It is led by David Kirkpatrick (author), a former technology editor of Fortune. Business and tech executives such as Bill Gates of Microsoft, and Ray Kurzweil and Eric Schmidt of Google have all participated. Its current advisory board consists of Marc Benioff of Salesforce.com, Jack Dorsey of Twitter and Square,
Nick Bilton days and its four founders—Evan Williams, Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, and Biz Stone—who are portrayed as "mediocrities, narcissists and mopers who seem to spend as much time on scheming, self-promotion and self-destruction as on anything else", according to Tim Wu's review in the "Washington Post". It was on the "New York Times" bestseller list and was voted Best Book of the Year on "The Wall Street Journal" Reader's Choice. The book was optioned by Lionsgate and is currently being turned into a TV series. Published in May 2017, Bilton's most recent book, "American Kingpin", tells the story of the Silk