Weak Signals
Today's a concise post to share an amazing business pitch that reminds you what opposability means when talking about added value. It's not about AirBnB or the usual startup suspects but from a rock-star sound engineer named Steve Albini. We were in 1992, and it'
Culture
I often speak about the automotive market because it's in such turmoil that from an innovator's perspective, everything is exciting about it. Every part of the business model is changing (or should be), the underlying technologies and manufacturing processes are changing, what customers need is changing,
Strategy
In this article, I'd like to connect many dots I've been laying out regarding the future of China and what it now strategically implies for us in the West. You might have read a few things I wrote on this already, but I believe that the global picture is now apparent.
Hot Takes
A few years ago, tech journalists and, even worse, business analysts were still calling Facebook a startup. But you know me, I find it hard to call a "startup" a trillion-dollar business founded 18 years ago. Nowadays, the trend is to discount Facebook as a has-been digital incumbent
Technology
Last week we had one of the numerous forecasts about technology (*) that we've been reading for so many years. 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2022This list represents a glimpse into our collective future.MIT Technology ReviewThe Editors I'm not going to have an opinion about the pertinence of
Hot Takes
243 million cars are circulating in Europe [https://theicct.org/sites/default/files/publications/ICCT_EU_Pocketbook_2020_Web_Dec2020.pdf] ; among them, about 15.5 million were newly registered, and among them, only 2.27 million are electric (still a record 2021 number for Evs). With that, my question
Hot Takes
Brace yourself for a 2022 year buzzing with western brands getting kicked out of China. If not directly, at least because of an overnight devastating consumer revolt on national social media. I've been explaining since Trump and even more fuelled by Covid-19 that the country was closing down
Toolbox
I'm encountering more and more this explore/exploit framework with the innovation departments of large corps. Explore/exploit means that they are two modes in the organization. Some teams will be in the first one, while the rest of the organization will be in the other: Thank you,
Hot Takes
Intel's downfall has been ongoing for decades now. While they barreled out of the seventies to the eighties as a juggernaut weaponizing the emerging desktop computer segment with Microsoft, they entirely missed the mobile market twenty years later. While still pushing for more powerful chips, the industry was
Hot Takes
About ten years ago, I illustrated how technology and market cycles interacted with each other the first $250,000 lab-grown burger produced after months of work. A few years later, startups like Beyond Meat [https://www.beyondmeat.com/] solved the problem of beef carbon-impact not with protein synthesis but with
Culture
A few years ago, Norway decided that of the new 8,000 cars sold yearly, not a single one should be using fossil fuel by 2025. They might make it so. EV Sales Hit Record in Norway With Fossil Engines Soon GoneElectric car sales hit a new monthly record in
The war for coffee supremacy has been fierce for many years in China, and it's still heating up. Whether you're in the food market or not, this is one of the best proxies to understand Chinese consumers and our global economy.