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European Unicorns or Infrastructure?

European Unicorns or Infrastructure?

I find it difficult to reconcile the recent explosion of European unicorns and how we dropped the ball on crucial technology infrastructure investments. We decided that engaging in a race to be the next Amazon web store or the next Facebook was key to the future of Europe as an

Looking back at 2021 – Part 2

Looking back at 2021 – Part 2

As Stéphanie did a few days ago [https://www.icopilots.com/looking-back-at-2021-part-1/], I’m going to try to wrap up 2021 with a few highlights and ideas for the next five years. No surprise about the predominance of covid during these last two years in our work, the management of

Mobility as a Service (MaaS) Report 📄

Mobility as a Service (MaaS) Report 📄

Our Mobility-as-a-Service Report (MaaS) commissioned by the French National Agency for Ecological Transition (ADEME [https://www.ademe.fr/en]) and the General for Infrastructure, Transport, and the Sea (DGITM [https://www.ecologie.gouv.fr/direction-generale-des-infrastructures-des-transports-et-mer-dgitm] ) is now available. It was researched and produced with my friends Julien de Labaca [http:

Looking Back at 2021 – Part 1

Looking Back at 2021 – Part 1

As the year came to a recent close, here are my 2021 highlights in the telegraphic form: from work adaptations to personal achievements as well as challenges and gratefulness. Catch up with you soon! Work Transformed Further Building on our 2020 experiences we launched our Icopilots Webschool [https://icopilots.thinkific.

How Springboard both invented and missed the smartphone market

How Springboard both invented and missed the smartphone market

As a quick end-of-the-year note, I was delighted by the 30 min documentary produced by The Verge on the smartphone early-stage market in the early nineties. It is a fantastic template to understand quite a few things: * How inventors are rarely innovators. * Why early actors mostly can’t see the