Today for the first time I invested in a company as an investor. Not to buy shares of a public company but to participate in a series B. I didn’t put tons of money, it’s more as an experience. But I hope it will be fruitful down the line (I probably have to wait 5 years to see any returns) but even if it’s not, it will be a great experience.

It’s very important to be able to trust your colleagues. Trust comes in different forms and shapes. The simplest form would be to rely on them to show up to a meeting on-time or to trusting them with your life. Feeling that any moment they are going behind your back or having to check on them to get some work done. Or to be sure the quality of work they provide is subpar or on point it’s all of great value.

We see these days (past 2 years) that there are startups on every industry and field of business claiming to have AI based solutions. Of course I’m no expert on these fields and have not been exposed to the details of their solutions but I can already tell that very likely most of them don’t use any kind of AI. Funny thing I also work for one of those AI based companies but we never use any ML.

I bought a PS5 right when it was releases. Since then I have many friends that still have not managed to get their hands on one. The funny thing is that even though I got mine already I don’t really use it that much, but still I feel good that I have it! I know that sounds odd but trust me, I just have better things to do. Don’t get me wrong it’s an awesome console, I love the controller too.

I sometimes wonder why there are so few European unicorns. Unicorn is a startup that is valued at over 1 Billion dollars, in European context, maybe it should be considered 1 Billion Euros? but usually on those scales 50 million doesn’t really matter that much. In general there are very few European startups when you compare with the US or China. Not only that, there almost no European tech giants.