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.
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For those of you, my readers, who are innovation actors in long-cycle markets, corseted by heavy regulations, strained by massive capital investment and precarious R&D projects, the way the defense market might be reinvented as we speak is a fantastic template to organize your own disruption. And the
Sorry for all the acronyms. The question concerns two highly hyped technologies of these last five years: augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR). These technologies have been slowly falling out of the hype train as they still fail to deliver any opposable value to any market (if you disregard
Hot Takes
Withings is a French consumer electronics company that was among the first to explore health and fitness-connected devices in a different way. Beyond creating the first WiFi scale in 2009 and later an FDA-cleared blood pressure monitor, for me, their most remarkable device is their watch. Withings Unveils a Slick
Strategy
As someone working in the healthcare market, as well as tech gadgets and luxury regularly, I couldn't help monitor the rise of fitness trackers for many years, well before the birth of the Apple Watch. Tech fitness has always been a glorified collection of gadgets at the intersection
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An interesting link from the venerable Daring Fireball about the perception from within Google of how the company is going, quoting an engineer who worked there for 18 years: Much of these problems with Google today stem from a lack of visionary leadership from Sundar Pichai, and his clear lack
Weak Signals
I was lucky enough to be invited to chat on the podcast of my good friend Jean-Louis Frechin, who has been one of the leading design figures in France for so many years. The podcast is in French (sorry - not sorry): Le design parmi les gens: Philippe Méda, pilote
Weak Signals
This week, a discussion on the struggles and opportunities camera-makers are facing with the fast evolution of cheap AI tools and why it will soon matter for everyone else...
Hot Takes
While everyone is discussing the minute-by-minute live-action, let's step back and see the big picture for every business starting to invest (and depend) on AI in 10 bullet points. 1. OpenAI structure was a clown car (imagine if Mozilla was running Google) and still is. This is terrible
Weak Signals
Despite the U.S. government's best efforts and sanctions, China seems to have secured access to cutting-edge microchip technology. Launched in August, Huawei's Mate 60 Pro uses Chinese microchips with 7nm engraving, way below what their technology is supposed to be able to achieve (finer engraving
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I'm shamelessly stealing the title of a Vox Media podcast about the project of a few Silicon Valley billionaires planning to build a whole new utopian city in California. California Forever was created to bring back the California Dream. We want to do that by building a new
AI
The signals of AI starting to appear in our normal day-to-day lives are now popping right and left. It's still early, but the march forward has very obviously started. The University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) has started using AI with the EPIC Dutch Association to streamline patient communication.
This is going to be an unusual short newsletter this week. I didn't publish the usual regular newsletter yesterday and wanted to keep you in the loop on how it's going to evolve a little bit. I've been going through a lot of back