Tech Tycoon Xavier Niel Hits $10 Billion Net Worth Amid Plans To Take Iliad Private

August 2, 2021
On Friday, Xavier Niel announced a “simplified public tender” offer for Iliad shares at an offer price of $216 per share. The proposal saw a 61% increase for the stock on the Euronext Paris, boosting Niel’s net worth by $3 billion up to an estimated net worth of $10.4 billion. Niel owns approximately 70% of […]
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OZEN RESERVE BOLIFUSHI - As Close to Paradise As You Can Get

July 30, 2021
With infinite stretches of white-sand beaches and a glistering azure lagoon, OZEN RESERVE BOLIFUSHI looks exactly like every image of the Maldives you’ve ever lusted over. We arrive at the island on a super luxurious catamaran and are greeted with cool towels, hand-crafted palm-leaf necklaces, kurumbas (or fresh coconuts), music, a traditional welcome feet scrub […]
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Robinhood’s Founders & How to Start a Revolution

July 30, 2021
On 29 July, after a bumpy few months and a fair share of troubled headlines, Robinhood founders Vlad Tenev, 34 and Baiju Bhatt, 36 each sold around $50 million worth of stock. The mobile-friendly discount brokerage, which pioneered commission-free stock trades, generated a profit of just under $2 billion in its public market debut. Following […]
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How to Make Hybrid Working Work for Your Business

July 30, 2021
The huge rise in hybrid working in the UK brought about by the impact of COVID-19 has seen individuals, teams and organisations work part of their time at their normal workplace and part of it remotely. For instance, NatWest Bank recently announced that nearly 90% of its workforce will take part in hybrid working, with […]
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Is it Time to Reset Management?

July 30, 2021
First, hierarchical bureaucracy is geared for predictability and risk avoidance. With digital ending up blurring industry boundaries unexpectedly, (de)globalisation and other social changes, turbulence becomes the norm. In a turbulent environment, practices are emergent; they escape replication. Cause and effect are often only discernible in retrospect. Risk management should give way to uncertainty management. Second, […]
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“Our Real-Time is Mostly Driven by Data”

July 30, 2021
Or Lenchner, CEO of Bright Data, tells us what this means…
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‘The Best Employer in the World’: What Went Wrong at Brewdog?

July 30, 2021
From then on, I have loved Brewdog’s many varied products, from Nanny State to Thunderbird. I was impressed with them when they brought out a beer in protest of the anti-LGBTQ+ legislation in Russia during the Sochi 2014 games. Beer for activism, who would have thought! And the idea of ‘pawternity’ leave (1 week’s paid […]
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Putting Data at the Heart of Innovation: The Role of the CEO

July 30, 2021
Data sits at the epicentre of innovation. With businesses accelerating their operations at pace, CEOs need to reassess their assumptions towards data and leverage its potential to remain competitive. After all, data isn’t there to justify decisions already made – it’s there to help us improve as we move forward.  Here, Zhiwei Jiang, CEO of […]
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How to Make Our Working Life More Eco-Friendly

July 30, 2021
Since the start of 2020, being able to work from home has led many to forgo their commute, reducing transport emissions. It’s just one of the many benefits that has revealed itself in working from home, and it’s fuelling the question: what further green initiatives can we find for our working lives?  Greener working from […]
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Are Successful People Just 'Luckier' Than Everyone Else?

July 30, 2021
It is undeniable that luck and chance play a role in shaping success in life. Everyone can name countless examples of chance occurrences and happy coincidences in their own lives. The question is, however, just how big a role does luck actually play. Whether chance presents someone with a good opportunity or not is not […]
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Jon Moeller To Succeed David Taylor As Procter & Gamble CEO

July 30, 2021
Moeller currently stands as vice chairman and chief operating officer of Procter & Gamble. As well as becoming CEO, Moeller will take over as the company’s president, a title which is currently held by Taylor. Moeller graduated from Cornell University in 1986 and later received an M.B.A from the same institution in 1988. Since then, […]
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Jeff Bezos Offers NASA $2 Billion Discount For Moon Mission Contract

July 29, 2021
In an open letter to NASA administrator Bill Nelson, Bezos said he would waive up to $2 billion in contract payments for the first two years if NASA agrees to add his space company, Blue Origin’s, lunar lander to a key phase of its Human Landing System programme. The programme will see humans landing on […]
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