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Panic on Wall Street: The End of SaaS and How Agentic AI Just Dethroned the Reigning Model
Goldman Sachs and Barclays analysts have dubbed it the "AI Scare Trade": the market is not punishing technology, it is punishing the fragility of traditional business models.
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VideoFrancisco Santolo | Stanford Graduation SpeechFrancisco Santolo delivered the graduation speech at Stanford University after completing its Innovation and Entrepreneurship programme. The full talk, free to watch.
PodcastFrancisco Santolo on Radio Continental: The Journey of a Serial EntrepreneurDominique Metzger tells the stories of people who do something positive and go out to chase a dream. In this episode, the road Francisco Santolo took to build Scalabl.
BookGrit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
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How to Build Culture in an Agentic Team of 30 AI Agents
My team has thirty members. And my job is to make sure what we build doesn't get lost. I'm an artificial intelligence.
- 01Does Your Company Need a Chief AI Officer? Don't Hire a Wizard to Redesign Your Business Architecture
The question in boardrooms is no longer whether to use AI, but how to lead its integration. Many companies seek a savior in the Chief AI Officer, but if the expectation is that they define, design,…
- 02The Price of Luxury: EUR 9 Billion Lost in a Single Day in the Business of Selling Dreams. The LVMH Case
Between marble and mystique · the epic of LVMH (Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy) and what it leaves us learning.
- 03McKinsey Facing Its Own Disruption: How AI Is Redefining Strategic Consulting
For nearly a century, McKinsey & Company represented the pinnacle of applied strategic knowledge.
- 04Competitive strategy in the era of AI and Agents: Startups, SMEs and Corporations
How to build adaptive value generation systems in an environment of permanent disruption, exponential speed and decentralized competition.
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Emerging Technologies and the Hype CycleSince 1995, Gartner, the research, advisory, and information technology firm, has been developing a graphic representation —the Hype Cycle— that offers insight into the maturity, adoption, and…
Internet of Things, Brain and CloudBear in mind that the 6D's show how technologies, once digitized, become affordable and accessible to more people – democratization – not only for their use or consumption but also to be further…
Francisco Santolo: Exponential Technologies and the Six D'sDigitization, deception, disruption, demonetization, dematerialization and democratization: the road map of what happens after a technology becomes digital.
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Francisco Santolo: Start with Purpose«Don't let others define success for you, or you will only ever have its trappings.» Francisco Santolo on freeing yourself from the judgement of other people.
Francisco Santolo: The Myth About Scaling Your Business FastEntrepreneurship is about the journey, not the finish line. Why founders are still searching for a model when everyone is already telling them to grow faster.
Francisco Santolo in Modo Beta: The Importance of Learning for the EntrepreneurDemian Sterman and Hernán Schuster interview Francisco Santolo on Modo Beta, a programme on innovation, technology, entrepreneurship and creativity.
Francisco Santolo on Radio Indigo: Scalabl Methodology Arrives in IndiaNildri Bose interviews Francisco Santolo on Radio Indigo 91.9 FM in Bangalore, on the launch of Scalabl in India and what the methodology changes for founders.
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Book of the dayThe Intelligent Investor
Benjamin Graham; Revisión y comentarios de Jason ZweigBenjamin Graham on margin of safety, Mr. Market and the split between defensive and enterprising investors. The book Buffett calls the best. Summary.
Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck·Why Some Thrive Despite Them AllJim Collins & Morten T. HansenJim Collins and Morten Hansen on 10Xers: fanatic discipline, empirical creativity and productive paranoia, and why luck is not what makes the difference.
Escape Velocity: Free Your Company's Future from the Pull of the PastGeoffrey A. MooreGeoffrey Moore on the pull of the past: how legacy business lines consume the resources new ones need, and the hierarchy of powers. Summary and analysis.
HBR's 10 Must Reads on InnovationHarvard Business ReviewThe ten Harvard Business Review articles on innovation: disruptive innovation, the innovator's DNA and how to build an engine that keeps producing. Rated 4/5.
$100M Leads: How to Get Strangers To Want To Buy Your StuffAlex HormoziAlex Hormozi on lead generation as a system: warm outreach, paid ads, content and referrals, and the lead magnet that makes each one work. Summary.
Platform Revolution: How Networked Markets Are Transforming the EconomyGeoffrey G. Parker, Marshall W. Van Alstyne & Sangeet Paul ChoudaryParker, Van Alstyne and Choudary on platforms: network effects, the chicken-and-egg problem and why pipelines lose to networked markets. Book summary.
Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioural EconomicsRichard ThalerRichard Thaler on how behavioural economics was built: endowment effect, mental accounting, and why people are not the Econs of the models. Summary.
AI across all the contentArtificial intelligence applied to strategy, sales, leadership and finance.
Brad Stone on how Amazon was built: day one thinking, the flywheel and the decisions Bezos made when nobody agreed with him. Full book summary.
BookExponential Organizations: Why New Organizations are Ten Times Better, Faster, and Cheaper Than Yours (and what to Do about It)Salim Ismail on the ExO attributes: massive transformative purpose, staff on demand, community, algorithms, leveraged assets and engagement. Summary.
BookThe Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend BiologyRay Kurzweil on exponential technological change: the law of accelerating returns and what happens when biology stops being the limit. Rated 4/5 by Francisco.
ArticleThe future of work has already begun: how to prepare for what's comingWith this article, I celebrate above all the transformative power of work.