| Citizen Of The World | currently based in Amsterdam | grew up in London | studied in Paris

Joined November 2011
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MyParisStateOfMind retweeted
Competition between human lawyers and AI to find loopholes in non-disclosure agreements: The AI found 95 per cent of them, and the humans 88 per cent. But the human took 90 minutes to read them. The AI took 22 seconds. ft.com/content/3aac2330-8f38…
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MyParisStateOfMind retweeted
28 Jul 2018
It's time for schools to teach Python, not Java, as their main intro to computer science. Along with being easier to learn and *actually* able to run anywhere on anything (like Basic back in the day), it's the dominant language of AI and computer vision economist.com/science-and-te…
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MyParisStateOfMind retweeted
16 Feb 2018
A reminder that a Microsoft business no one thinks about (Bing) generates roughly $7B in annual sales. That's 3x Twitter's ad sales and bigger than Microsoft's Surface revenue.
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MyParisStateOfMind retweeted
7 Feb 2018
The world's most powerful rocket launched a car at Mars. No big deal.
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Yeah, Elon's got the biggest Boosters in the industry. Thank you for having the vision and taking the risks we we need to get off this rock! x.com/CNN/status/96091600659…

6 Feb 2018
Elon Musk is about to test out his new creation: The Falcon Heavy. If it works, it will become the world's most powerful operational rocket. cnnmon.ie/2FNp1YD
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MyParisStateOfMind retweeted
In *only* 5 years UK VC investments grew from $1.5B to $7.8B ! Thanks for the data crunching @dealroomco
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MyParisStateOfMind retweeted
17 Jan 2018
Live now on our Facebook Page: watch the INSEAD LaunchPad Ignition Event with @StationF inse.ad/yaMcG4
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MyParisStateOfMind retweeted
17 Jan 2018
#live panel on the Dos and Dont’s of Scaling Internationally with 3 @INSEAD alumnis @taavet hinrikus(co-founder & CEO of @TransferWise) Jo Bertram (ex-@Uber now @eqtventures) Fred Mazella @mazaic (founder and CEO of @BlaBlaCar)
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MyParisStateOfMind retweeted
17 Jan 2018
Read our recap of today's big news: we are welcoming a new startup program on campus, run by top business school @INSEAD ➡️ medium.com/station-f/welcomi…

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only 3% of Walmart's ~$500B sales are online in 2016. It's still a BIG number and certainly more than some F500 firms have in total sales
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Sugarcane mills supplied more than 20,000 GWh, or 4 percent of Brazil’s electricity requirements, thanks to bioelectricity #Sustainability
IT'S SO SAD, THE UNDERTAKER RETIRES AT WRESTLEMANIA 33 ...(1990 - 2017) youtu.be/ClDrIWrH6vc

“If you don’t have a real stake in The New, then just surviving on the old—even if it is about efficiency—I don’t think is a long-term game”
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By 2020, the number of UK mobile banking users will double from 17.8 million to 32.6 million
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40 banking licence applications were made to the #FCA in the last 18 months. Nine survived.
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Philosopher Charles Peirce said "..insights come to us 'like a flash'—in an epiphany—making them difficult to rationalize or defend" #HBR
The new EU data privacy law #GDPR kicks in 25 May 2018. Companies can be fined up to 4% of global revenues or max €20m, whichever is bigger
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France exported $9.0bn worth of wine in 2015 accounting for 30% of world's total wine export, Italy comes 2nd with $6bn, Spain $3bn
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At 19.8x earnings, Alphabet Inc stock trades at a significant discount to Facebook’s 23x and Amazon's 87x #wsj
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Read The Sun Also Rises again. Every time I read this book it gets better. True legend #ErnestHemingway
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