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The inbox has long been the softest entry point in enterprise security. As phishing campaigns grow more convincing, more personalised, and increasingly powered by generative AI, the tools designed to stop them have been locked in a reactive cycle: wait for the attack, analyse it, respond. IRONSCALES, the Atlanta-based email security vendor, is betting that […]

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For most of the past decade, the received wisdom in European venture capital was simple enough: if you wanted a serious fund, you needed a partnership. The large teams, the committee structures, the distributed decision-making, these were treated not merely as operational choices but as a kind of institutional legitimacy. Nathan Benaich has spent the […]

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How does the ball know?

In tennis, golf or just about all ball sports, the follow-through determines the flight of the ball. Great players always have a complete and confident follow-through.

But the ball is long gone before that happens.

So, what’s the point?

It turns out that the ball can tell that you intend to have a serious follow-through. A weak or non-existent follow-through requires that you start slowing down before your racquet ever gets to the ball.

The metaphor should be pretty clear.

If you show up for the audition, your first TEDx talk, your early blog posts, the job interview or your start up hoping to see what happens (“I’ll commit if I get picked”) we can tell.

On the other hand, when it’s clear that you’re going to keep on showing up, it’s an invitation to get aboard now.

Follow-through doesn’t always work. But it always works better than the alternative.

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A quieter week by headline standards, but one that reveals a great deal about where European venture capital is quietly concentrating: AI agents for physical industries, agritech automation, and the growing operator-to-VC pipeline. What the week of 16-22 March delivered was something different in texture rather than volume: smaller rounds, more specific theses, and a […]

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This is the slogan of so many industrial behemoths and existing bureaucracies.

It’s in quotation marks for a reason: it’s not true. Not in the long run, not even in the medium run.

One way to highlight the hollowness of this edict is to say it out loud.

For a while, it might make the stock price go up. But it doesn’t last. It never does.

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You wear a hat, you’re not a hat.

State nouns are verbs that we talk about like they are nouns. Hurry, panic, frenzy, rage, funk, stupor, daze, fog, rut, bind, pickle, fix, slump, tailspin, tizzy. Notice that they’re almost all negative…

You’re in a hurry.

Really? I get that you’re hurrying. There might be good reasons for this. But the hurry hat isn’t what you are, it’s what you’re doing.

We can own our agency and our choices, not announce (to ourselves or the world) that we’re trapped in a container, unable to escape.

Until we start saying, “I’m in a joy” perhaps we should find the grace to choose what sort of verb we’d prefer.

The essential thing about a hat is that it’s easy to take off.

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The indictment of Super Micro’s co-founder exposes not just a $2.5 billion scheme, it exposes a system that was never built to stop one. Somewhere in a rented warehouse in Southeast Asia, a man was using a hair dryer on a server box. Not to dry it. To loosen the adhesive on a serial-number sticker, […]

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Automattic has added write capabilities to WordPress.com’s MCP integration, giving AI agents like Claude and ChatGPT the ability to create posts, build pages, manage comments, and restructure content, all through natural conversation, with human approval at every step. For most of the past six months, connecting an AI agent to your WordPress.com site has meant […]

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Fox News remained the most-watched cable news network.Read More