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CEO in the service of AI startup CEOs. Former CEO of HackerOne, Eucalyptus Systems, MySQL.

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Tech predictions for 2026 and beyond We’ve caught glimpses of a future that values autonomy, empathy, and individual expertise. Where interdisciplinary cooperation influences discovery and creation at an unrelenting pace. In the coming y...

Thoughtful tech predictions for 2026+ by Werner Vogels

www.allthingsdistributed.com/2025/11/tech...

25.11.2025 15:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Gorgeous StoraEnso HQ

19.11.2025 05:24 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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AI Summit | Suorana suomalaisilta Ylen yhteistyökumppanin tuottamaa sisältöä. Suomen ELLIS-instituutti, AI Finland ja Foundation PS järjestävät merkittävän kansainvälisen tekoälytapahtuman 17. marraskuuta 2025, kun Logomossa, Turussa...

AI Summit in Turku live streamed here: areena.yle.fi/1-76514739

17.11.2025 09:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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AI datacenter buildout is real, plans unreal.

16.11.2025 04:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Täällä Otaniemessä on tekemisen meininkiä. Sitä meininkiä, jota koko Suomi nyt tarvitsee. Täällä ei puuhastella, täällä tehdään. - Antti Lindtman 15.11.2025

15.11.2025 16:09 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Founder Talks #3: Miki Kuusi, CEO of Deliveroo and Head of DoorDash International
YouTube video by Aalto University Founder Talks #3: Miki Kuusi, CEO of Deliveroo and Head of DoorDash International

Finland's most accomplished startup founder Miki Kuusi visited Aalto Founder School to share his thoughts and experiences in an awesome fireside chat with two students.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIFg...

13.11.2025 19:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Accel 2025 Globalscape: Race for compute Download the Accel 2025 Globalscape report to read more on this year's key cloud and AI trends and see the full list of the 100 companies to watch.

Accel Globalspace 2025 report on AI trends and companies to watch:

www.accel.com/globalscape

13.11.2025 05:12 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Nämä hetket ovat parhaita!

12.11.2025 20:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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We humans cling to assumptions, instincts and habits.

12.11.2025 20:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I recommend this book although it lacks an important piece of advice. The book fails to mention the great value to a future founder of working for a startup with great founders.

12.11.2025 07:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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How to be a Founder, by Alice Bentinck and Matt Clifford (2022).

"Success is not dependent on what you already know, but on what you learn through pursuing a particular solution to a particular problem."

12.11.2025 06:37 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Tapahtumat | 12.11. Katja Boxberg ja Juhani Mykkänen, Mårten Tapahtumat | 12.11. Katja Boxberg ja Juhani Mykkänen, Mårten

Kasvun kaava, Wolt-tarina, Startup-käsikirja. Voittamattoman kolmikon kirjailijat Akateemisessa huomenna 12.11.2025

akateeminen.com/tuoteryhma/1...

11.11.2025 08:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Anthropic Is on Track to Turn a Profit Much Faster Than OpenAI Financial documents from both companies show the different approaches they are taking to the AI boom.

OpenAI thinks it's now or never. Anthropic thinks it's a long obstacle course.
Within their respective beliefs, both are acting rationally.
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...

11.11.2025 06:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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JAKSOT | FUTUCAST Futucast on podcast, joka käsittelee tulevaisuutta yhdessä Suomen huippupäättäjien kanssa. Formaatti on rento, avoin keskustelu, jossa pohditaan isoja ja välillä vaikeitakin kysymyksiä. Tavoite on kok...

Mielenkiintoista keskustelua Isak Raution kanssa Futucastissa.
www.futucast.com/jaksot

10.11.2025 07:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Amazon, Walmart, and Uber collectively employ almost four million workers (if you count freelance drivers).

theallinpod.substack.com/p/the-terror...

10.11.2025 03:31 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Inside Cursor Sixty days with the AI coding decacorn

What is it like to work at one of the hottest AI startups in San Francisco?

joincolossus.com/article/insi...

09.11.2025 17:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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How To Navigate the Pipeline Crisis Unlike many marketers, I’m not particularly prone to hyperbole, and thus “crisis” is not a word that I use lightly.  But I think saying “pipeline crisis” is warranted today when discussing what’s happ...

How to build sales pipeline faster in today's world

kellblog.com/2025/11/08/h...

08.11.2025 21:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Everything in America is bigger because things grow faster.

08.11.2025 17:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Why I don't worry (as much) about big tech's depreciation schedule In early 2025, I wrote about big tech’s deteriorating earnings quality primarily because of their gradual extension of useful lives for their servers in the last five years. Over the course of this ye...

Should we worry about the hyperscalers' depreciation schedules for GPUs?
www.mbi-deepdives.com/why-i-dont-w...

07.11.2025 17:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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In Search of the AI Bubble’s Economic Fundamentals William H. Janeway explains why the sector might be better off if the reckoning comes sooner rather than after leverage piles up.

AI bubble: Speculation in equity is not the main problem. It is debt-financed speculation that leads to economic disaster when a bubble inevitably bursts.

www.project-syndicate.org/onpoint/will...

07.11.2025 17:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Slingshots // One: Our First Grant Cohort Laude's inaugural grant cohort supporting eleven groundbreaking AI research projects across leading institutions. From interactive AGI benchmarks to biomedical AI platforms, this diverse cohort tackle...

Slingshots are no-strings-attached research collaborations and grants designed to help computer science researchers move their work forward. Every recipient pledges to ship their work into the world — through an open-source project, startup, or other artifact.
www.laude.org/updates/slin...

07.11.2025 00:41 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Jensen Huang Gets It Wrong, Claude Gets It Right Why It’s Better for Us to Think of AI as a Tool than as a Worker

Think of AI as a tool, not as a worker.
www.oreilly.com/radar/jensen...

06.11.2025 17:40 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Mårten Mickos' book event YouTube video by Aalto University

My book launch event on the Aalto University campus. Conversations about leadership and growth - in Finnish.
www.youtube.com/live/CGmMOEb...

05.11.2025 13:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A Private Market Analysis of Circular Deals and Their Impact on AI Valuations The AI sector's explosive growth has been fueled by an unprecedented network of circular financing arrangements; deals where infrastructure suppliers, cloud providers, and AI companies invest in each ...

How much would market caps go down if circular AI deals were backed out? 10-15%, calculates Chris Tacy.

www.linkedin.com/pulse/privat...

05.11.2025 06:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Chief of Staff: Two-thirds were promoted after serving as chiefs of staff, while 18% used the role as a launching pad for lateral moves (some into a different industry or function).

www.mckinsey.com/capabilities...

04.11.2025 23:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Leading Without Fear: The Psychological Maturity Behind Sound Judgment (Part 4 of The Best Leaders Playbook — Inner Mastery Series) The Smart Leader’s Blind Spot It’s strange how often the smartest people make the worst decisions under pressure. They don’t lose IQ.

When fear runs the show, the goal subtly shifts from making the right decision to avoiding the wrong one.
Those two things are worlds apart.

www.linkedin.com/pulse/leadin...

04.11.2025 19:29 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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OpenAI's $1 Trillion Infrastructure Spend OpenAI has committed to spending $1.15 trillion on hardware & cloud infrastructure between 2025 & 2035.

To pay for their deals, OpenAI needs to get close to $1 Trillion in revenues in 2030

www.linkedin.com/pulse/openai...

04.11.2025 02:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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Designing remote work at Linear - Linear

Designing remote work at Linear

linear.app/now/designin...

03.11.2025 21:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Mårten Mickos: Essential Lessons From A Legendary Tech CEO | Pattern Breakers Mårten Mickos isn't the kind of CEO who tries to dream up world-changing ideas or invent brand new markets. Perhaps best known for leading MySQL to becoming a $1 billion success story that powered Fac...

People have spoken highly of the podcast I did with Mike Maples a few months ago, so here is the link again:
greatness.floodgate.com/episodes/mar...

03.11.2025 15:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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‘We’re the invisible ones’: the chiefs of staff running the world’s biggest companies Long associated with politics or the military, the behind-the-scenes role is increasingly popular in the private sector

The invisible but important role of the Chief of Staff

www.ft.com/content/1953...

03.11.2025 13:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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