b'C O N T I N U E DC E L E B R I T Y S P O T L I G H T I N T E R V I E W Q: Since your career trajectory has intersectedQ: You are a big surfer. What can surfing teach uswith significant technological advancementsabout navigating the unpredictability of life? since your time at Apple, including your pres- A: I can explain all of life in surfing analogies. So firstent position with Canva, how do you feel aboutof all, when youre in the water, you are constantly AI presently?looking for opportunities. These are called waves A: If you had told me 40 years ago that I would evenand you have to learn to recognize waves. Andbe still involved in any kind of computing beingultimately, if you dont turn and paddle, youll never as big a part of my life as it still is, I would havecatch a wave. Thats kind of like life. If all you ever told you that thats highly unlikely, but here wedo is think about doing something, and youare. Deja vu! Now, if you look at the big revolutionsnever actually turn and paddle, you will never the wheel, fire, the industrial revolution, chipsaccomplish anything. and computers, and social mediain my humble opinion, AI is bigger than all of those combined. I think AI is the last hope for saving society because it seems like manIm not saying man as mankind, I mean the maleis hell bent on ending this world. And I think AI might be the last gasp or hope for saving us. Now, thats probably too high-level of an answer, but for me as a practitioner, as a writer, podcaster, marketer, AI is humongous.Sumitomo Corporation of Americas 13'