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Marten Mickos @martenmickos.bsky.social · 1d

The best managers stand out by figuring out people’s strengths and guiding them laterally and up to better career paths.

Asst Professor Virginia Minni studied 30,000 managers in 100 countries over 10 years.
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What Is the One Trait That Makes for a Great Manager? You Might Be Surprised

A 10-year study of a large multinational firm found that the best bosses steer their employees into just the right roles.

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Marten Mickos @martenmickos.bsky.social · 2d

The last mile of work is going away thanks to AI

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Last-mile work is going away — N47

Machine intelligence is eliminating last-mile work—tasks with low originality and high repetition. Learn where opportunity lies as AI reshapes human roles.

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Marten Mickos @martenmickos.bsky.social · 4d

Traffic is not the same as value, but ads are still a good way to keep the internet open. Now this world is changing from Search to Answers.
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Cloudflare’s 2025 Annual Founders’ Letter

Cloudflare launched 15 years ago this week. We like to celebrate our birthday by launching new products that give back to the Internet, which will do a lot of this week. But on this occasion we've als...

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Marten Mickos @martenmickos.bsky.social · 4d

Well said by Jorma Eloranta about what corporate boards in Finland will need.
Full column (behind paywall): www.hs.fi/mielipide/ar...

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Marten Mickos @martenmickos.bsky.social · 5d

300 Nordic startup founders listening to Ben Horowitz interviewed by Anders Mjåset during Mesh SF.

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Marten Mickos @martenmickos.bsky.social · 6d

Mesh SF event with Nordic startup builders.
Morning run for the fastest!

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Marten Mickos @martenmickos.bsky.social · 6d

From Aalto University student to self-made billionaire. Energy visionary. Candid insights on fossil fuels, the climate crisis, and the real opportunities in renewables.

No fluff. Just raw insights from one of Finland’s boldest founders. Be there. Aalto Founder Talks.

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Marten Mickos @martenmickos.bsky.social · 7d

How should early-stage founders think about boards and advisors?
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Boards and Advisors: Insights for Early-Stage Founders

Strong startup relationships form long before Series A. Learn how to engage advisors, build investor trust, and create an effective board.

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Marten Mickos @martenmickos.bsky.social · 8d

Graph database for AI: Aura Agent and MCP server for Neo4j.
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Neo4j Invests $100 Million in GenAI and Launches Key Agentic AI Innovations - Graph Database & Analytics

Neo4j announces a $100 million investment in GenAI to fuel product innovation and help customers scale reliable intelligent systems.

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Marten Mickos @martenmickos.bsky.social · 8d

Circular Financing: Does Nvidia's $110B Bet Echo the Telecom Bubble?
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Circular Financing: Does Nvidia's $110B Bet Echo the Telecom Bubble?

Nvidia's $110B vendor financing strategy mirrors Lucent's telecom bubble playbook. Analyzing customer concentration, GPU-backed debt, depreciation schedules & cash flow patterns to assess AI bubble ri...

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Senja Larsen @senja.bsky.social · 9d

Tulolla tuutin täydeltä sisäpiiritarinaa kasvuyrityksen rakentamisesta! Vähän kuin reseptikirja Suomelle. Kasvua pitäis saada ja tuolta sitä pesee! Onnea uunituore kirjailija @martenmickos.bsky.social www.sttinfo.fi/tiedote/7149...

Yritysjohtaja Mårten Mickos tarjoaa uutuuskirjassaan Kasvun kaava teesit kohti kukoistusta | Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava

Suomen menestyneimpiin yritysjohtajiin lukeutuva Mårten Mickos jakaa uutuuskirjassaan Kasvun kaava oppimaansa ja esittää kaavan, jolla Suomi voi olla maailman edistynein pieni maa. Pitää vain ottaa en...

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Marten Mickos @martenmickos.bsky.social · 8d

What VCs won't say to you but you need to know.
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What VC's Won't Say (The Course) | Clarence Bethea

Most founders never hear the truth from investors. What VCs Won’t Say gives you 80+ videos, templates, community, and live coaching with Clarence Bethea to master fundraising and secure capital.

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Marten Mickos @martenmickos.bsky.social · 11d

A 5k/10k run then networking.
Introducing Aalto Founder School as well.

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Marten Mickos @martenmickos.bsky.social · 11d

Breakthrough startup founders see a future that clashes with the present so decisively that most people dismiss it as impossible, stupid, or even crazy.
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The Heresy of Breakthrough Startups

Breakthrough startups happen when founders refuse a hidden assumption, replace it with a better explanation, and make it impossible for early believers to unsee.

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Marten Mickos @martenmickos.bsky.social · 11d

Among startups, ugly gross margin early on can lead to great business later
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The Margin Trap Myth: Why the Best Infrastructure Companies Often Start Ugly | Notable Capital

Distinguishing between temporary low gross margins and permanent traps. Why AI and serverless winners often start ugly.

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Marten Mickos @martenmickos.bsky.social · 11d

A wonderful, insightful, great new book. It lays out powerful mental models that focus our minds - and AI technologies - on what makes this world a better place.

The Transformation Principles by Hemant Taneja.

Marten Mickos @martenmickos.bsky.social · 11d

Seven types of COO
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When Should a Founder Bring in a COO? And why choosing the right type of COO could save or sink your company

One of the biggest dilemmas that founders face knowing when and why to bring in a Chief Operating Officer (COO). Too early, and you risk creating bureaucracy before the business finds its footing.

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Marten Mickos @martenmickos.bsky.social · 12d

OpenAI looking for world-class scientists who hold a current academic position in math/physics/TCS or related, regularly use frontier models in their own research, are great scientific communicators, and eager to dive in technically as well as academically.
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Research Scientist, Mathematical Sciences

Strategic Deployment · San Francisco · FullTime

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Marten Mickos @martenmickos.bsky.social · 17d

The US constitution is neither bone nor stone. It is an explosion of ideas. Parchment decays and ink fades, but ideas endure; they also change. - Jill Lepore
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We the People — Jill Lepore on why Americans have got their constitution all wrong

The Harvard historian tells the story of the US’s foundational document — and why it was always meant to be amended

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Marten Mickos @martenmickos.bsky.social · 19d

CloudFlare hiring 1,111 interns for 12-week stints in Austin, NYC, SF, Bengaluru, Lisbon and London.
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Help Build the Future: Announcing Cloudflare’s Goal to Hire 1,111 Interns in 2026

We are incredibly excited to announce our most ambitious intern program yet: Cloudflare aims to hire as many as 1,111 interns over the course of 2026.

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Marten Mickos @martenmickos.bsky.social · 20d

When innovation happens fast, it is thanks to earlier innovation that progressed slowly.

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Marten Mickos @martenmickos.bsky.social · 23d

Aalto Founder Talks series: Inaugural session with the profoundly inspirational startup entrepreneur Monika Liikamaa.

Recording freely available from the Finnish national broadcasting company for the next weeks.
areena.yle.fi/1-76081215