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How being a tech influencer changes your perspective

He’s a gaming influencer who’s been sharing videos on YouTube since 2011 – with 15.3 million subscribers on that original channel. But Jordi van den Bussche (Founder and CEO at JVDB Studios) has taken content creation beyond the boundaries of simply producing videos.  Jordi also created a successful

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Do all tech leaders do this?

Welcome to the 1,372 new techies who have joined us. If you haven’t already, subscribe and join our community in receiving weekly tech insights, updates, and interviews with industry experts straight to your inbox. This week we’re quoting Oscar Barranco Liébana (Integrated Operations Platform Director, FIFA World

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Be good – in more ways than one

Welcome to the 215 new techies who have joined us since last Friday. If you haven’t already, subscribe and join our community in receiving weekly tech insights, updates, and interviews with industry experts straight to your inbox. This week we’re quoting Salomon Aiach (Co-Founder at Origins Fund)  What

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An investment portfolio built on game-changing ideas

An early-stage tech investor with a keen eye for market opportunities, Salomon Aiach (Co-Founder at Origins Fund) invests mostly in B2C and B2B2C companies, so the end-user is the consumer.  From Facebook to Goldman Sachs, his career history is littered with high-profile (and high-pressure) roles, and when it comes to

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You've got to know how to work with humans...

We caught up with McCauley for some quick-fire questions. And one of his answers sparked a deep conversation among our team: about why the people working most closely with AI need to have solid people skills.

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Saudi Arabia: A hotspot for the digital generation

From working in Parliament in Austria to pushing the boundaries of digital tech in Riyadh, LEAP 2024 speaker Margarete Schramboek (Board Member at Aramco Digital; Former Minister of Economy and Digital, Austria) has a passion for the potential of digitisation to transform our world.  We asked her what entrepreneurs should

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How do you find a co-founder?

Welcome to the 7,107 new techies who have joined us since #LEAP24. If you haven’t already, subscribe and join our community in receiving weekly tech insights, updates, and interviews with industry experts straight to your inbox. This week we’re quoting Dr. Wyatt McDonnell (CEO and Founding Scientist

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People are afraid to talk about AI

Angela to DeepFest 2024 to share her experience and drive forward the conversation about how AI will intersect with equality, equity and peace. And we caught up with her for a quick exploration of her key issues in the current discourse around AI.

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What if your market doesn’t really exist yet?

Welcome to the 2,442 new techies who have joined us since last Friday. If you haven’t already, subscribe and join our community in receiving weekly tech insights, updates, and interviews with industry experts straight to your inbox. This week we’re quoting Fabien ‘Neo’ Devide (Co-Founder and CEO

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Will fintech create new inequalities in finance?

Last year on the blog, Dr. Ritesh Jain (Founder of Infynit) explained why payments are the lifeblood of the financial services industry.  This week, we caught up with him again to dig a little deeper into his perspective on payments, fintech, and financial inclusion.  Crucially, we wanted to find out