A very special interview in Juego Consentido with Iván Carrillo and Roberto Canales.
Last August 14, 2024, I had the opportunity to participate in a conversation that impacted me. I was invited to "Juego Consentido", a space created by: Roberto Canales, an entrepreneur I have long admired, and Iván Carrillo, a brilliant student of mine. Over the course of two hours, we explored topics that rarely...
The art of facing opportunities: Jensen Huang's (Nvidia) speech at Caltech
Be sure to watch Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's speech at the Caltech 2024 graduation ceremony. It had the same impact on me as Steve Jobs' speech at Stanford and I want to read it here. Humanity in technology The first thing I want to highlight is the authenticity and humanity that Jensen...
One year working in what I love
Choose a job you like and you won't have to work a single day of your life Confucius I had decided to change jobs long before. Besides the fact that a person whose name I don't want to remember had been harassing me in my job for a year and a half, specifically since an undisputed professional success that...
My interview for Logic Crushing
A few days ago Isabel Ginés interviewed me for her Lógica aplastante. It was a real pleasure and this is what was published. Isabel Ginés Once a project and an entrepreneur's intention to obtain financing have been presented, what percentage of the decision to invest or not in it would you assign to the idea and what...
Hacking education III: collaboration by default
It so happens that not even the biggest company there has ever been, such as Apple, can launch anything alone. It happens that Apple collaborates with designers, manufacturers and hardware assemblers; it happens that Apple reaches the point of having an application supermarket where a fifteen year old kid can upload a small program and sell it. And mind you...
Initiative is neither created nor destroyed, it is only transformed. Initiative is the key to being competitive in the 21st century because it is no longer enough to comply at work, you have to be committed, because it is no longer enough to do things well, you have to go a step further...
Ferran Adriá's Bullipedia and content-based business models
Yesterday I was lucky enough to see Ferrán Adriá live. As nobody is a prophet in his own land, Adriá is reviled by the Cainite half of Spain. The fact is that there is consensus to consider him the best chef in the world and one of the ten most innovative people on the planet. If we start looking for...
StartupSpain VI. A spark in the ecosystem
In this post I want to show, in broad strokes, what is our drawing of StartupSpain. A project with the body of a startup to help startups and that we hope to begin to materialize throughout the fall. The era of big public spending is over. Institutions and governments have to be cut back in order to reduce the...
Lemonade. Lots of lemonade. By Jaime Bravo
Startup Spain has to focus on the education of the youngest. Between the ages of 4 and 16 is defined if someone will want to have an entrepreneurial attitude towards life, or opt for a stable job that no longer exists, but the child could see in their parents and teachers. I open a parenthesis...
StartupSpain V. The first conclusions
In early spring 2011, the first conclusions about what the Spanish startup ecosystem was and what it needed came to light. After evaluating the existing actions, it became clear that not only were they not lacking, but that there was a surplus of actions by public institutions for entrepreneurs. The Ministry of Industry has identified, between public and private institutions,...