The Business Engineer

It was July 2008, almost 15 years ago, that on a stage in Cupertino, Steve Jobs announced the App Store with these words: So you're a developer and you've just spent two weeks or maybe a little bit longer writing this amazing app and what is your dream? Your dream is to get it in front of every...

Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better,” This is how, author, Nassim Nicholas Taleb defines it! ​Antifragility is a characteristic of systems that thrive due to stressors, volatility, mistakes, attacks, or...

The idea of growth and fixed mindsets was first introduced by American psychologist Carol Dweck, a leading expert in human motivation. Approximately three decades ago, Dweck wanted to know why some children sought out challenges while others avoided failure at all costs. She began studying the...

If you have ever worked in software you might know what's a CRM software. It is a technology solution that enables companies to store, organize, and analyze customer data in a centralized system, providing a complete view of customer interactions across multiple channels. If you wish, that's...

Within Google (rebranded as Alphabet back in 2015), there are many moving parts, and yet, still to these days, a single cash printing machine: Google Ads! When looking at business players, many make the mistake of thinking that the product is all that is. And while the product is critical; it is...

Platform business models are like governments, they create incentives that spur demand within an industry, thus becoming the de facto supply provider. When a market develops around enough liquidity demand (enough buyers of a service at any time), the platform business model turns into a sort of...

I have a business mantra that goes along these lines: Business strategies take years to roll out. Yet when they do, they are obvious only in hindsight. For the entrepreneurs who roll them out, that is all but a linear process. Rolling out these business strategies is a painful process, which...

Back in December I explained how the AI industry is forming around a sort of three-layered ecosystem (foundational, middle and application layer), this is all documented in my book, AI business models. I also explained how we might get to a scenario where a few large players at the foundational...