Confidence vs Arrogance

You know this person: smart, focused, competent, but so modest about their activities and achievements that they just become too invisible get stuff done. Humility is a virtue, but too much of it gets in the way of effective delivery of even great work.

Very important observation by Martin: hiring from a global pool increases access to top talent and changes sharply the chances in the lottery of "who is great AND happens to be available in the small country right now". But it is not only about tech talent shortage in local market - the more nuanced point is that building a global product with only…

On startups in Europe: Remarks to European Parliaments.

A speech delivered to Chairpersons of EU…

One Week in a Startup Founder's Life

The past five days where such a whirlwhind of an example what startup life can be that I decided to just capture the memory of the moment for myself. And as sometimes has happened before, I find that some notes are not confidential enough to stay in the confinement…