Since 2007, Philippe has collaborated with hundreds of startups and advised numerous multinational corporations on disruptive innovation strategies. He also teaches MBA courses in Europe and Shanghai.
Hot Takes
Working on long-term trends is obviously getting tricky since a few months ago, and I guess I don't have to explain why anymore. Whether some key events will have long-term negative or positive impacts, businesses and innovators need some level of stability to invest in the future. Knowing
Technology
How to protect your phone at the US border is now an ongoing trope of many tech blogs, travel websites, and consumer magazines. Beyond the quite obvious geopolitical implications, we see in real-time a core transformation of how the US deals with online and social media privacy (or lack thereof)
Weak Signals
If you've been on any social media recently, you've probably been hit by one of these videos initially pushed through TikTok. The script is always the same: a Chinese manufacturer demonstrating how they carefully craft high-end luxury bags with imported leather, high skills, and very aggressive
Culture
A powerful statement from Warren Buffett, writing Berkshire Hathaway's annual letter last February: Sometimes I’ve made mistakes in assessing the future economics of a business I’ve purchased for Berkshire — each a case of capital allocation gone wrong. That happens with both judgments about marketable equities — we
Newsletter
I could have titled this article "Why I Don't Fly KLM - Air France Much Anymore," but I'm certain you'll relate to some of the issues addressed here regarding the evolution (or lack thereof) of loyalty programs in many businesses.
Newsletter
This is a special edition. And yes, since yesterday's announcement, you know why.
Quick note
I'm not a prominent security expert, but I have always been concerned with basic data hygiene. And I'm not perfect: I never was on Facebook, but I massively used Twitter before it became a cesspool. For many years, all my business mail (Merkapt and then Innovation
Hot Takes
The hype cycle has moved on, headlines have cooled, but that’s exactly when deep tech innovation gets real: boring, unsexy, and quietly transformative. Waymo’s data now shows statistically safer driving at scale—marking the inflection point where the tech becomes not just viable, but inevitable.
Weak Signals
Elon Musk's surprise move of merging xAI with X (ex-Twitter) is a process that should have required at least four independent parties: each company and their respective investment banks. Here, the deal only involved Elon agreeing with Elon and Morgan Stanley agreeing with Morgan Stanley. This ensures that
Hot Takes
This is real:
Hot Takes
Another tool I was exploring today is theyseeyourphotos.com, where you can explore what Google Vision API will "see" in any given photo of you. My first test was quite impressive indeed: The second one... much less so: I can confirm with any form of doubt (or prejudice)
Hot Takes
At this point in time, everyone is producing AI-flavored everything. Your bike is now developing an opinion on how your pedaling is going and whether it is fluid enough in relation to your personal neuromuscular profile. Your washing machine is probably trying to write a PhD thesis on the proper