Sergio Alvarez-Teleña“Zoom-out, it all makes sense” Vol.3: time for underdogs to take overFor a long time, limited partners (LPs) have been pouring tones of money into VCs and these into startups that had a focus on advanced…Jun 6, 2022Jun 6, 2022
Sergio Alvarez-Teleña“Zoom-out, it all makes sense” Vol.2:There are a lot of misunderstandings when it comes to innovation through applied science. Let me try to be a bit polemic here yet as…May 30, 2022May 30, 2022
Sergio Alvarez-Teleña“Zoom-out, it all makes sense” Vol.I’ve been radio silent for a while. Utterly busy with the many things we are doing across ventures, pro-bono and academia. Doing so much at…May 23, 2022May 23, 2022
Sergio Alvarez-TeleñaValue-at-risk entrepreneurship: the secret sauce to stay coolValue-at-risk, or VaR, is a well known measure of extreme risk in finance. Basically, it says what you could lose if things go fairly…Jul 21, 2017Jul 21, 2017
Sergio Alvarez-TeleñaTrading your career as an asset: reinvestment or dividends?Just a concept that I typically use to explain how I manage my career.Jul 4, 2017Jul 4, 2017
Sergio Alvarez-TeleñaExploration/ExploitationA few days ago, I was humbled to join an offsite with Jack Dorsey (Twitter’s CEO and Co-Founder and Square’s CEO and Co-Founder). He is…Jul 4, 2017Jul 4, 2017
Sergio Alvarez-TeleñaData science? 90% can be systematized. Here the other 10%For some reason, I feel people didn’t quite get Data Science yet. To me, and I could clearly be wrong in spite of my experience, Data…Jul 4, 2017Jul 4, 2017
Sergio Alvarez-TeleñaQuitting is the new blackIf you don’t quit, you are a loser. You don’t have talent. From superstars like Andrew Ng (top, top pioneer in A.I. who left a great…Jun 15, 2017Jun 15, 2017
Sergio Alvarez-TeleñaBottom-up, the Wholy GrialTop-down transformation is fine. [The culture.] It is a neccesary condition but not sufficient. The typical deck of Power Point you could…May 30, 2017May 30, 2017
Sergio Alvarez-TeleñaDon’t expect digitization to be a tsunamiBasically because very few players would do their homework. If no incumbent does and disruptors do not have enough…May 29, 2017May 29, 2017
