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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.

Summer reads for innovators (2022 edition) 📚

Summer reads for innovators (2022 edition) 📚

As every year, last July, I shared a list of five books to boost your innovation mindset. Let's update the list with five new books that you might find interesting if you've been reading us for a while or just started. My mindset when recommending books

Facebook and Apple enter a bank...

Facebook and Apple enter a bank...

Some stories read like a joke but also illustrate entirely different corporate cultures and innovation strategies. In 2019, Facebook (now Meta) announced the launch of Libra, a proprietary cryptocurrency to be launched in 2020. After the second or third rebranding (Novi), trying to package the whole project through different third-parties

More self-driving news, in the warehouse!

More self-driving news, in the warehouse!

Technology rarely gets into the market where we planned or thought it would. As of 2022, self-driving individual cars and taxis are still in prototype mode worldwide (although now legal in a few regions from China to California). But if quite underwhelming in regards to the industry's grand

Can Porsche launch startups, and should they?

Can Porsche launch startups, and should they?

Porsche is doing something interesting in the market. While most automakers dabbed into startups with hackathons (#killmenow), mostly failed or underappreciated intrapreneurship programs, and plain venture investment, Porsche is getting to the next step. They aim to launch six real startups within the next three years in partnership with the

🟢 From Deeptech to Diptech

🟢 From Deeptech to Diptech

For the last years, most startup ecosystems accepted that trying to birth the next Facebook was mission impossible. The password to the future was deeptech. Not anymore. Let's try to understand why "diptech" is the new black.

Five predictions for startups in a recession

Five predictions for startups in a recession

The NASDAQ shedding 30% of its value overnight has had a wonderful consequence for startups: every single investor now only speaks of unit economics. And Europe is now following suit. For most startups, the novelty is a system shock. We are talking about the end of pitching a future business

Will Roe reversal change tech forever?

Will Roe reversal change tech forever?

Well, here we are – or more precisely, here they are. Be assured that I'm not going to add comments to the flood of discussions and analysis. Not to mention that although my personal feelings about how the U.S. is dangerously becoming a sh*thole country (to quote