Subject: John/My Book
From: Alec Ross <[email-masked]>
To: John Podesta <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2015 09:18:02 -0500

Hi John,
I hope this finds you well. I’m writing because I would like to send you a
copy of the galleys for my book, *The Industries of the Future*. Can you
email me the best mailing address to send you a hard copy of the book or
let me know if you'd prefer a PDF (that you could put on a Kindle).

It releases publicly in February. Simon & Schuster publishing. It got off
to a good start with pre-orders making it the #1 new International Business
Book on Amazon.

The premise of the book is that if the 20 years from 1995-2015 were shaped
in significant measure by digitization and the rise of the Internet, what's
next? What's 2016-2026? You and I spend much of our time in circles where
there is an at least minimally informed understanding of the forces that
will shape our futures, ranging from genomics to cyber to AI/machine
learning to the digitization of money, markets and trust.

I wrote this book to try and enlarge the circle of people with an
understanding of these topics and to help them understand what kinds of
skills and attributes people will need to compete and succeed in tomorrow's
economy. I think it is highly problematic that so few people understand
these forces so I wrote the book to try bring more people in. It's
deliberately story-driven and accessible. I'm very excited for you to read
the book.

Please let me know your best address and I’ll get it right out to you or
let me know if you'd prefer a digital copy.

My best,

Alec