A series of posts about people who made Gauss possible — Professor Kirilenko looked me in the eye and said: “Daniel, do promise me that I won’t deal with anyone of your damned oligarchs” (not that I had any) and would only deal with proper-fashioned fund structure we we discussing while strolling up and down lanes near his new professorship place…

A series of posts about people who made Gauss possible — Most of the time, through force of habit of saying yes, you come to try new things. One fails and fails often — to learn and become, hopefully, more apt in a new domain. In my career, where fintech was first a nonexistent term for financial service innovation, as the…

Market trend and transformation Briskly is a established leader of autonomous retail tech in CIS region, providing major retail players: grocery giants and regional small-shop networks a range of services to automate their B2C channels while also scaling a lucrative and extremely profitable vending business. Gauss met Briskly in 2018 at a Visa Everywhere…

Lucy’s weekly column in the The Financial Times that I subscribed over a decade ago always carried wit and charisma through which she dispelled the condescending talk of business executives, explaining that speaking clearly is way better: pointing to contrarian nature of such behaviour, used often to rather hide malpractice…

What looks like an evolution of Apple’s relationship with Marcus — may be an evolution of Apple e-commerce payment / button game, allowing participating banks to connect their credit to payments made online. — Nominally, this looks like a push by GS’s Marcus to bolster the partnership that Apple has in the US, as the card function a) competes with other card offers people can link to Apple Pay b) has on-par loyalty / cash-back, that premium cards by leading providers like Chase provide…

The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner Shared via Kindle. Description: Shortlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction Finalist for The…read.amazon.com Where I read this book several years ago, it still resonates clearly — amid new instability between now Russia and the US, cancelling Open Skies Treaty, investing in orbital missile systems or supersonic delivery mechanisms of nuclear weapons. …

A well planned and meticulously researched book that provides a bout of fresh air, despite decades spent on the subject and countless stories told in writing as well as cinematic optics, Dobbs holds one attention to the last page. Especially poignant the story is in parallel to analysing recent Trump…