“Poetry is always at the pulse of the most dangerous and the most daring questions that a nation or a world might face.” This is what Amanda Gorman said during her 2018 TED talk, years before becoming the youngest Inaugural poet at the Inauguration of U.S President Joe Biden. She…

At this point, we have all heard of Tiktok, and we’ve most likely found ourselves spending hours scrolling through its neverending content. With its mix of comedy, viral dances, and a new class of social media advertising style, TikTok has truly taken over. But when I first started using the…

200 years ago, if you asked someone to predict the next 20 years, they would have most likely guessed right on most things. However, if I asked you what will happen 20 years from now, the future would be much harder to predict. That’s because we live in an era…

What’s the difference between tourists and explorers? How are entrepreneurs and artists linked through audacity? What does audacious even mean? Jim McKelvey, one of my favorite entrepreneurs and an accomplished glass artist and successful co-founder of several startups, including Square, the online mobile payment company (valued at approximately $80 billion)…

Kanye West is notorious for posting a lot of controversial content on Twitter. However, one of his recent tweets caught my eye: “Artists are Founders.” This tweet caused quite a stir among other Twitter users. Then, in a reference, Suhail Doshi, CEO of Mixpanel, tweeted his opinion: “Founders are Artists”. …

There are many role models for innovators in the business and entrepreneurship worlds. But, why limit oneself to this space when looking for stimulation? …

In my last post, I raised questions that every manager who wishes to foster innovation should ask. Are we preparing our employees to climb the mountain of innovation? Do we provide them with the right training for this long journey? The era in which we are living is one of…

Companies’ executives are obsessed with innovation. In the journey of enterprises to lead in their industries (and for many, to survive), these organizations, especially large corporations, understand that startups and other tech companies might take their place. The change is so radical that’s incredible to observe the efforts companies put…

Last October I attended South Summit, Spain’s largest startups, and investors conference. Normally tech conferences have similar speakers from similar industries but this time South Summit invited Jim McKelvey, and I was thrilled. …