This week I had the honour of sitting down with relentless, serial entrepreneur, Elliott Perry, to discuss life, travel and his latest venture.
Why Google Will Win the AI Wars
In 2003, Michael Burry predicted that the US housing market would collapse in 2007. As we all now know, he was right…
Software Companies are the Wild West
Between the 1600s and the late 1800s, thousands of people set off from the edge of the new American civilisation and headed West…
Orienting Teams around the Axis of Change
Tech is a very fluid and changing world, but one of the most lasting truths in technology is Conway’s Law.
How Reliance Jio Disrupted Digital India
On a recent business trip to New Delhi, I was out for lunch with colleagues when conversation turned to the price of mobile data. Us foreigners at the table bemoaned the price-per-Gb in our home countries, meanwhile, the locals could barely contain their laughter… Overnight Success An overnight success in the Continue Reading
The Rise of the Blockchain
Within a few short years we could find our banking system is bankrupt. No, I’m not trying to predict another subprime mortgage collapse, and this isn’t another anti-Trump message of doom (although his lack of understanding of ‘the cyber’ and affinity with traditional business models will not help the United States Continue Reading
Why do people only read things that back up their way of thinking?
Remember when the internet was in its infancy? We all had to put up with little 468 x 90 banner ads everywhere you looked – and sometimes we clicked them because we didn’t know better. As time went on we grew smarter, we were able to tell the bad adverts Continue Reading
Google Watch: Time to DuckDuckGo
Google do a lot of good things. They host free webfonts to make the web a nicer place to be. Their cloudy PaaSÂ service, Engine Yard, gets rave reviews. Their maps are better than anyone’s, their mobile OS is the most popular in the world, and their photo hosting offer is Continue Reading