Ritesh Vajariya
Board advisor. Operator. AI strategist for the people who have to decide.
Most of what gets called “AI strategy” today is either breathless (every release is a revolution) or cynical (none of this matters). Neither is useful to the people who actually have to decide. The Forward View is what I’d want to read if I were running a board, a PE portfolio, or a CTO function right now.
I write it for board directors, PE operating partners, CTOs, general counsels, and founders. I think in three-year horizons because that’s the timeframe where the decisions you make today still matter: capital allocation, governance posture, vendor lock-in, organizational design.
Background
BloombergGPT contributor. AWS GenAI work. Eighteen months at Cerebras as Global Head of Generative AI Strategy and Business Development. Board and committee advisory across banking, manufacturing, healthcare, EdTech, and public-sector governance. Taught 70,000+ students on enterprise AI adoption and risk.
The four pillars
Every essay sits inside one of four analytical pillars. Pick the question you’re trying to answer.
Long arc — decisions playing out over 18 to 36 months, not weeks.
Second order — what the first move triggers next, and the move after that.
Cross domain — patterns that repeat across industries that don’t think they have anything in common.
Decision maker — written for the person who has to sign the memo, not the one who has to draft the slide deck.
Disclosed affiliations
Founder of AI Guru. Advisor to NEUBoard. Both are disclosed because that’s the right thing to do, and because reasonable readers should know who is paying whom.
Contact
Email [email protected]. I read everything. I reply when I have something useful to add.