Tom Spencer(Source: Flickr) I recently had a conversation with a friend who is studying a PhD here in Oxford. She is originally from China, and her intelligence is only exceeded by her work ethic and desire to make her PhD supervisor happy. She confessed to me with a look a mild despair on her face, “I am making slow progress. […]
(Source: Techradar) Design is about function. Every product has a job to do, as Professor Clay Christensen enjoys telling his marketing students at Harvard Business School. If a product is designed properly, then the job will get done well. Apple’s new debut wearable technology, the Apple Watch, has a sleek yet distinctively square shaped design. This seems […]
A revolution in energy technology? Elon Musk launches the Tesla Powerwall Elon Musk, CEO and product architect at Tesla Motors, has just announced the launch of the Tesla Powerwall. Musk was a co-founder of Paypal with Peter Thiel (who I talked about yesterday), and has since gone on to found Tesla Motors, SpaceX and SolarCity. The new product is […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=3010&v=41NeR8ZkCUk I had the good fortune yesterday to attend a conversation between Teppo Felin, Professor of Strategy at Oxford’s Said Business School, and Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal and recent author of the bestselling book Zero to One: Notes on Startups or How to Build the Future. Apart from being a co-founder of PayPal, Thiel is also known for being the […]