[1] Simon studied economics and political science at Carnegie Mellon University, receiving his BS in Policy and Management in 1993.

He has written 14 books, including The Nine: The Tectonic Forces Reshaping the Workplace,[2] Low-Code/No-Code: Citizen Developers and the Surprising Future of Business Applications,[3] and Reimagining Collaboration: Slack, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and the Post-COVID World of Work.

[5] In May 2016, Simon accepted a position as a full-time faculty member at the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University.

His work has appeared in Fast Company,[7] the New York Times,[8][9][10] CNN,[11] Inc. Magazine,[12] Harvard Business Review[13] The Huffington Post,[14] and many other sites.

[16] Simon announced in April 2012 that The Age of the Platform: How Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google Have Redefined Business would be translated into Korean in late 2012.