The top 15 public platform companies already represent $2.6 trillion in market capitalization worldwide. Powered from the outside in by buyers and sellers, these technology-driven business models are redefining the future of industries.
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Building products is hard. But building great products is harder. To create great products takes skill, intelligence, dedication and discipline. And it requires making bold choices. Innovating to achieve impact with a product makes us take big risks. And striking a balance between speed of delivery and quality of the execution is always tricky. Understanding
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Last year proved to be challenging in terms of reading books due to the demands of the MBA that I am studying in the evenings. This year, however, I have set up myself the aspirational goal of reading – at least – three books per quarter.
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No one wakes up thinking, “I am going to make bad decisions today”. But guess what? We all make them. When we make decisions, we make mistakes. We all know this, of course. In a world with imperfect information and subject to randomness, good decisions do not guarantee good outcomes. While people should make rational
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Dropbox filed to go public on Friday 23rd.The company, which reported just over $1bn in revenues last year, is filling for a $500M IPO, poised to be the one of the biggest tech listings since Snapchat, and valuing the company at close to $10bn. This week’s EDebrief analyses Dropbox’s history and USP, together with opinions
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January 28th · Issue #4
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January 21th · Issue #3
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January 7th · Issue #1
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One of the ways I am embracing the “Be 1% better every day” philosophy is by sharing a weekly curated list of the best articles I have read in the last 7 days. The motivation behind it is twofold. On the one hand, it helps me reflect on the new ideas I am exposed to
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Under the current economic circumstances, companies are under more pressure than ever to innovate if they want to survive. Conversely to what some people think, innovation doesn’t always come from the R&D division but ideas are more likely to originate with employees closer to the bottom of the organisational pyramid. As a consequence, employee empowerment
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