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Would it surprise you to know Sweden is almost totally ca...

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Would it surprise you to know Sweden is almost totally cashless? And the reason is related to ABBA? Björn Ulvaeus made his fortune as one of the four members of[...]

A story from Vic Gundotra about Steve Jobs’ legendary att...

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A story from Vic Gundotra about Steve Jobs’ legendary attention to detail: “One Sunday morning, January 6th, 2008 I was attending religious services when my cell phone vibrated. As discreetly[...]

Would you give all your money away? If so, where?

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Would you give all your money away? If so, where? This is the extraordinary story of Chuck Feeney, who finally achieves his 34 year mission of going from $8 billion[...]

How fast are you disrupting your own company?

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How fast are you disrupting your own company? This is the first picture of Uber’s self-driving car, taken today in Pittsburgh. It’s taken just six years since Travis Kalanick and[...]

Of all the many entrepreneur lessons I have learned, one ...

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Of all the many entrepreneur lessons I have learned, one of the very best lessons came by accident, on a river in Sri Lanka. When I visited Sri Lanka, I[...]

A story of what’s possible – In 1990 Jim Carrey, a broke,...

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A story of what’s possible – In 1990 Jim Carrey, a broke, unknown 28-year-old comic in LA, decided to write a check to himself: For $10 million. “I wrote myself[...]

The key to overcoming anything

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The key to overcoming anything: It is in our darkest times that we find our greatest strength. Yesterday, one year on from the worst day of her life, Sheryl Sandberg,[...]

This week Apple just invested a billion dollars in the yo...

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This week Apple just invested a billion dollars in the youngest billion-dollar CEO in China, 33 year old Cheng Wei. Cheng Wei started his car-riding company (now known as “Didi[...]

If your brain was a garden, would you take the time to pu...

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If your brain was a garden, would you take the time to pull out the weeds? Because scientists are now finding that’s exactly what your brain is. Knowing this can[...]

Can you see order in chaos? Can you hear the signal in th...

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Can you see order in chaos? Can you hear the signal in the noise? Today 15 year old Canadian student, William Gadoury, hit the news for discovering an entire ancient[...]