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Philippe MEDA

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.

Digital? It's not only pizza-delivery!

Digital? It's not only pizza-delivery!

Most of the tech and digital news this year has been depressing, if you ask me. Between Andreessen Horowitz investing upward of $350 million in the new Adam Neumann grift or Marc Zuckerberg gambling the future of Meta on us wearing cumbersome 3D helmets, the little world of digital tech

Tardigrade vs. Zombie technologies

Tardigrade vs. Zombie technologies

To end the week, I'd like to share an interesting find about a legacy technology that still survives against all odds. The mighty floppy disk! As much as I would like to think it's now a kind of exotic oddity used by hobbyists and retrogamers, it&

The Russian brain drain

The Russian brain drain

Fascinating tweet from Johannes Wachs a few days ago: Preprint day: I measure developer brain drain from Russia since the invasion. Comparing @github data Feb21vsJun22 I find many RU devs are abroad (8.6%) or obscure their loc (11.3%). Leavers were more active and central in the collabnet. Feedback

Do we need more Silicon Valleys? (No)

Do we need more Silicon Valleys? (No)

Historically, I have been doubtful of reproducing innovation models imported from other cultures and ecosystems – I've been very polite. In my experience, the main fallacy is that such things as "Silicon Valley" are a model to start with. If anything, they are a complex construct that

The Verge redesign matters (for us, too)

The Verge is among the most famous consumer electronics and technology news websites. As of yesterday, they entirely redesigned their website and, more importantly, changed how they feed their audience news. Let's see why this might be big news. The Verge was launched in 2011 and is owned

Does an AI have the right to produce art?

Does an AI have the right to produce art?

Two weeks ago, a composition won the first prize at the Colorado State Fair. This composition wasn't produced by an artist but by someone using Midjourney (a now notorious AI that generates images from text prompts). Scandal ensued. TL;DR — Someone entered an art competition with an AI-generated