Things that didn’t exist when Lehman Brothers collapsed this day in 2008: Uber Instagram Bitcoin iPad Snapchat Apple Maps Angry Birds Kickstarter GoFundMe WhatsApp Apple Watch FB Messenger Candy Crush Pinterest Alexa Venmo WeWork WeChat Tinder Twitch Siri Square Stripe Slack

Reporting to the CEO can sound great But usually it also means zero training and instant responsibility, and the ability to truly own things immediately If that's too much, report to someone else

There's technical debt and design debt, but don't forget business debt. If you say "we can't offer this because it'll cannibalize existing business" long enough, you lock yourself into a local maximum and won't be able to evolve with the customer/market.

Ambidextrous leadership: simultaneously optimize your current business model and inspire your company to search for the next one. bit.ly/2R42rQY via @DeloitteInsight

General Atlantic leads $120 mln investment in Dubai's Property Finder | Article [AMP] | Reuters reuters.com/article/emirat…

The future of entertainment. Scary? Or exciting? I am not sure... Fortnite’s Marshmello concert was a bizarre and exciting glimpse of the future theverge.com/2019/2/2/18208… via The Verge

The UAE has changed and so has the way we explore it...check out our new Property Finder Community Guides here youtube.com/watch?v=DUearT… Property Finder.ae #UAEInsider

“Cascading OKRs at scale” by Christina link.medium.com/79GFIxegm4

How Will the Coronavirus End? - The Atlantic theatlantic.com/health/archive…

Over-rotating on gross margins is myopic. Why? Business quality is about defensibility. Defensibility comes from moats. And while high gross margins are often a reflection of moats, they are not a moat themselves, say David George & Alex Immerman wp.me/pa0Syt-1gbj

The mockup is amazing !!! I totally buy into the vision from ⁦Christoph Janz 🕊⁩ in “Bringing the cocktail effect to video meetings” link.medium.com/sIzYpvkfc8.

Pretty impressive stuff! I still need to do some reading to understand what this means on our journey towards AGI. Any suggested readings on GPT-3?

That summarizes well my understanding so far: “GPT-3 excels at predicting text, not understanding it. You can’t draw a straight line from GPT-3 to artificial general intelligence (AGI).” morningbrew.com/emerging-tech/… via Tech Brew ☕

I do understand some of the current concerns around Apple's control of the App Store, but watching this legendary video helps put things into perspective and remember how much innovation was enabled via the App Store videopress.com/v/s6wdT7tS

Fantastic piece on leadership and execution from #Snowplow's CEO Frank Slootman. Amp It Up! linkedin.com/pulse/amp-up-f…

A metaphore from Nassim Nicholas Taleb that is worth re-reading every now and then: “the turkey is fed by the butcher for a thousand days, and every day the turkey pronounces with increased statistical confidence that the butcher “will never hurt it” - until thanksgiving”. #antifragile

Record year - 2020 is on track to set a new record of $41B invested into European tech. With $5B of capital invested, France is the only one of Europe's three largest markets to grow in 2020. 2020.stateofeuropeantech.com/chapter/invest… #europeantech #soet2020

"You don't need more time, you need more focus." — Shane Parrish

We are thrilled to partner with the team @Backmarket, leading the company’s Series E funding round of €450 million. The investment will fuel Back Market’s game-changing vision to make refurbished electronics the first choice for tech purchases. wsj.com/articles/refur…