Investor Profile: ROELOF BOTHA
ROELOF BOTHA Managing Partner, Sequoia Capital Background and current role Former PayPal CFO, part of the original PayPal Mafia Managing Partner at Sequoia Capital, one of the world’s most influential…
Too Good To Go: Saving Dinner, Building a Movement
Turned surplus unsold food into a global consumer habit At 9 pm in Copenhagen, most bakeries are closing. A decade ago, unsold croissants went straight into the bin. Today, many…
Sentia Spirits: The Startup Rewriting What It Means to Drink
On a quiet evening in London, a different kind of drinks experiment began taking shape. Not another alcohol brand. Not a wellness fad. But a serious attempt to answer a…
Back Market and the Second Life Economy
On a rainy Paris morning in 2014, three friends were standing inside a small electronics repair shop, watching customers bargain hard for second-hand phones while new models sat untouched behind…
No Signal, Still Connected, 2026
In September 2024, a hurricane knocked out cell towers across a stretch of coastline. Power was gone. Fibre was gone. But a few phones still pinged out short messages, straight…
Katrina Lake and the Discipline of Building Forward
In 2011, Katrina Lake was a 27-year-old MBA student with no fashion pedigree, no retail background and no Silicon Valley safety net. She walked into a venture capital office with…
The First AI Employee Is Here; And It Writes Code All Night
In early 2024, a short demo quietly changed how many founders think about artificial intelligence. On screen, an AI opened a laptop, read a GitHub issue, explored a codebase, fixed…
THE PERPLEXITY PRINCIPLE: Aravind Srinivas Rewriting Rules of Search & Making Google Nervous
Future of search is straight answers, not endless clicks Aravind Srinivas doesn't remember the exact moment he decided Google was broken, but he remembers the feeling. It was 2022, and…
The Long Way Around: Trade Learned to Live With Disruption
At sea, silence matters. When shipping lanes go quiet, the global economy feels it first, not in headlines, but in delivery delays, higher insurance bills, and nervous procurement teams refreshing…
Empty Offices, Nervous Banks: The Reset of Real Estate
No protests. No breaking-news tickers. No dramatic collapses on TV. Yet one of the biggest shifts in today’s business atmosphere is happening quietly, floor by floor, building by building. Commercial…