Marten Mickos
@martenmickos.bsky.social
CEO in the service of AI startup CEOs.
Former CEO of HackerOne, Eucalyptus Systems, MySQL.
Former CEO of HackerOne, Eucalyptus Systems, MySQL.
The world’s first production-ready solid-state battery can be charged to full capacity in as little as five minutes.
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Donut Lab unveils world’s first production-ready solid-state battery at CES – thepack.news
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January 5, 2026 at 5:31 PM
The world’s first production-ready solid-state battery can be charged to full capacity in as little as five minutes.
thepack.news/donut-lab-un...
thepack.news/donut-lab-un...
AI Adventure for Kids.
Inspiring curiosity, critical thinking and problem solving - the skills that set human apart from machines.
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Inspiring curiosity, critical thinking and problem solving - the skills that set human apart from machines.
aiadventure.co
AI Adventure for Kids - Safe, Responsible, Future-ready | AI Adventure
AI Adventure empowers children to explore AI safely and responsibly - inspiring curiosity and critical thinking. Enabling kids to thrive in AI-enhanced world to work together with AI. In-person after-...
aiadventure.co
January 5, 2026 at 4:35 PM
AI Adventure for Kids.
Inspiring curiosity, critical thinking and problem solving - the skills that set human apart from machines.
aiadventure.co
Inspiring curiosity, critical thinking and problem solving - the skills that set human apart from machines.
aiadventure.co
With anything that runs on electricity, China is on the rise.
January 2, 2026 at 8:30 PM
With anything that runs on electricity, China is on the rise.
Life is finite, the different ways you could spend your time are infinite.
Book recommendations by Frans Saxén.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/my-202...
Book recommendations by Frans Saxén.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/my-202...
My 2025 Year in Books
The books Frans Saxen read in 2025. Four thousand weeks. Leadership. Productivity. Product Management. High performance psychology. Philosophy.
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January 2, 2026 at 7:36 PM
Life is finite, the different ways you could spend your time are infinite.
Book recommendations by Frans Saxén.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/my-202...
Book recommendations by Frans Saxén.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/my-202...
Best business books of 2025.
Marco Mäkinen read 307 books published in 2025 to find the best ones.
marcomakinen.medium.com/best-busines...
Marco Mäkinen read 307 books published in 2025 to find the best ones.
marcomakinen.medium.com/best-busines...
Best Business Books of 2025
We are living through dark, confusing times. That’s precisely why I wanted this year’s business book of the year to be credibly optimistic…
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December 29, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Best business books of 2025.
Marco Mäkinen read 307 books published in 2025 to find the best ones.
marcomakinen.medium.com/best-busines...
Marco Mäkinen read 307 books published in 2025 to find the best ones.
marcomakinen.medium.com/best-busines...
Talouselämän toimitus valitsi 15 nimeä, jotka omilla toimialoillaan tekivät vaikutuksen vuonna 2025.
www.talouselama.fi/uutiset/a/63...
www.talouselama.fi/uutiset/a/63...
Listalla upporikas perijä ja ennätysnainen: Talouselämä paljastaa vuoden vaikuttajat
He jättivät jäljen. Talouselämän toimitus valitsi 15 nimeä, jotka omilla toimialoillaan tekivät vaikutuksen vuonna 2025.
www.talouselama.fi
December 29, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Talouselämän toimitus valitsi 15 nimeä, jotka omilla toimialoillaan tekivät vaikutuksen vuonna 2025.
www.talouselama.fi/uutiset/a/63...
www.talouselama.fi/uutiset/a/63...
Thoughtful analysis of what AI means for business and society, by Notion founder Ivan Zhao
www.notion.com/blog/steam-s...
www.notion.com/blog/steam-s...
Steam, Steel, and Infinite Minds
Every era is shaped by its miracle material. Steel forged the Gilded Age. Semiconductors switched on the Digital Age. Now AI has arrived as infinite minds. If history teaches us anything, those who ma...
www.notion.com
December 29, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Thoughtful analysis of what AI means for business and society, by Notion founder Ivan Zhao
www.notion.com/blog/steam-s...
www.notion.com/blog/steam-s...
Data centers are the power plants of cognition.
In 2024, U.S. data centers consumed 183 TWh of electricity. That energy consumption is projected to climb to 426 TWh by 2030.
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In 2024, U.S. data centers consumed 183 TWh of electricity. That energy consumption is projected to climb to 426 TWh by 2030.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/were-e...
If we're in an energy war, we're losing.
We are in the opening chapters of a cognitive industrial revolution. And for the United States, two elements now sit at the center of whether we lead this revolution or watch it happen from a distance...
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December 28, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Data centers are the power plants of cognition.
In 2024, U.S. data centers consumed 183 TWh of electricity. That energy consumption is projected to climb to 426 TWh by 2030.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/were-e...
In 2024, U.S. data centers consumed 183 TWh of electricity. That energy consumption is projected to climb to 426 TWh by 2030.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/were-e...
Are you motivated by ensuring frontier AI systems are safe, reliable, and responsibly deployed?
OpenAI is hiring a Head of Preparedness in San Francisco. Salary $555K.
openai.com/careers/head...
OpenAI is hiring a Head of Preparedness in San Francisco. Salary $555K.
openai.com/careers/head...
Head of Preparedness
Safety Systems · San Francisco · FullTime
openai.com
December 27, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Are you motivated by ensuring frontier AI systems are safe, reliable, and responsibly deployed?
OpenAI is hiring a Head of Preparedness in San Francisco. Salary $555K.
openai.com/careers/head...
OpenAI is hiring a Head of Preparedness in San Francisco. Salary $555K.
openai.com/careers/head...
You get fast teams when you hire similar people and strong teams when you hire dissimilar people.
December 27, 2025 at 3:55 PM
You get fast teams when you hire similar people and strong teams when you hire dissimilar people.
Long Strange Trip is a great podcast about the new CEO playbook, by Hubspot co-founder and longtime CEO Brian Halligan.
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sequoiacap.com/series/long-...
Long Strange Trip Archives
The CEO rulebook is getting rewritten. Brian Halligan, Sequoia partner and co-founder and longtime CEO of HubSpot, talks to the CEOs defining the new playbook, from hypergrowth AI-native startups to 1...
sequoiacap.com
December 25, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Long Strange Trip is a great podcast about the new CEO playbook, by Hubspot co-founder and longtime CEO Brian Halligan.
sequoiacap.com/series/long-...
sequoiacap.com/series/long-...
Nvidia has built an empire on circular deals for chips. Can anything knock it down?
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Chipwrecked: Can Nvidia avoid the crash?
What happens if the GPU-backed loans go south?
www.theverge.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Nvidia has built an empire on circular deals for chips. Can anything knock it down?
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Oracle, Meta, xAI and CoreWeave have moved more than $120bn of data centre spending off their balance sheets using special purpose vehicles funded by Wall Street investors.
www.ft.com/content/0ae9...
www.ft.com/content/0ae9...
December 24, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Oracle, Meta, xAI and CoreWeave have moved more than $120bn of data centre spending off their balance sheets using special purpose vehicles funded by Wall Street investors.
www.ft.com/content/0ae9...
www.ft.com/content/0ae9...
Who was the best CEO of 2025?
Armin Papperger of Rheinmetall, says the Economist, with a 158% return for shareholders in the year of 2025.
Armin Papperger of Rheinmetall, says the Economist, with a 158% return for shareholders in the year of 2025.
December 23, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Who was the best CEO of 2025?
Armin Papperger of Rheinmetall, says the Economist, with a 158% return for shareholders in the year of 2025.
Armin Papperger of Rheinmetall, says the Economist, with a 158% return for shareholders in the year of 2025.
How to become more adaptable:
* Kill your darlings
* Surround yourself with people who challenge you
* Make data your north star
* Iterate relentlessly
www.hagbergconsulting.com/adaptability...
* Kill your darlings
* Surround yourself with people who challenge you
* Make data your north star
* Iterate relentlessly
www.hagbergconsulting.com/adaptability...
www.hagbergconsulting.com
December 21, 2025 at 3:16 PM
How to become more adaptable:
* Kill your darlings
* Surround yourself with people who challenge you
* Make data your north star
* Iterate relentlessly
www.hagbergconsulting.com/adaptability...
* Kill your darlings
* Surround yourself with people who challenge you
* Make data your north star
* Iterate relentlessly
www.hagbergconsulting.com/adaptability...
Databricks is at $4.8B revenue run-rate, with over 55% YoY growth. This company had zero revenues and no business model just ten years ago. They have a first-time & immigrant CEO who never worked for a company before Databricks.
Go Ali! You are changing what the world perceives as possible.
Go Ali! You are changing what the world perceives as possible.
December 17, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Databricks is at $4.8B revenue run-rate, with over 55% YoY growth. This company had zero revenues and no business model just ten years ago. They have a first-time & immigrant CEO who never worked for a company before Databricks.
Go Ali! You are changing what the world perceives as possible.
Go Ali! You are changing what the world perceives as possible.
Pääomasijoitteisuudella ja myös ulkomaalaisomisteisuudella
on massiivinen vaikutus Suomessa tapahtuvaan työllisyyden ja tuottavuuden kasvuun.
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on massiivinen vaikutus Suomessa tapahtuvaan työllisyyden ja tuottavuuden kasvuun.
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Millaiset yritykset Suomessa kasvavat?
Työllisyyden ja tuottavuuden kasvu keskittyy pääomasijoitteisiin ja hieman vähäisemmässä määrin ulkomaalaisomisteisiin konserneihin. Muilla kotimaisilla omistajilla ei havaita ole
www.etla.fi
December 16, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Pääomasijoitteisuudella ja myös ulkomaalaisomisteisuudella
on massiivinen vaikutus Suomessa tapahtuvaan työllisyyden ja tuottavuuden kasvuun.
www.etla.fi/julkaisut/ra...
on massiivinen vaikutus Suomessa tapahtuvaan työllisyyden ja tuottavuuden kasvuun.
www.etla.fi/julkaisut/ra...
Trump's regular intrusions into the boardroom are a sort of state capitalism. Once popular in Japan and Western Europe, state capitalism remains prominent in China, Russia and other countries to varying degrees.
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www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
CEOs Are Learning to Live With Trump’s Turn to State Capitalism
Some businesses have figured out how to take advantage of an expanded government presence in their boardrooms.
www.wsj.com
December 16, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Trump's regular intrusions into the boardroom are a sort of state capitalism. Once popular in Japan and Western Europe, state capitalism remains prominent in China, Russia and other countries to varying degrees.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Half a million Xiaomi EVs manufactured, less than two years after their first car was shipped. Take notice; this is how fast an existing industry can be disrupted.
www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202511/21/...
www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202511/21/...
Xiaomi hits 500,000 EV production milestone
Xiaomi Corp’s electric vehicle unit celebrated a significant milestone on Thursday, as its 500,000th car rolled off the production line at its super factory in Beijing.
www.chinadaily.com.cn
December 15, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Half a million Xiaomi EVs manufactured, less than two years after their first car was shipped. Take notice; this is how fast an existing industry can be disrupted.
www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202511/21/...
www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202511/21/...
Autonomous agents that think, adapt, and collaborate.
The Agentics Foundation by builders and for builders.
agentics.org
The Agentics Foundation by builders and for builders.
agentics.org
Agentics Foundation | Building the Future of Agentic AI
A global foundation dedicated to making AI innovation and education open to everyone through open-source agentic AI systems.
agentics.org
December 12, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Autonomous agents that think, adapt, and collaborate.
The Agentics Foundation by builders and for builders.
agentics.org
The Agentics Foundation by builders and for builders.
agentics.org
Live right now: Framery CEO and co-founder Samu Hällfors interviewed by students Lara Gloder and Eero Nikoskelainen.
December 11, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Live right now: Framery CEO and co-founder Samu Hällfors interviewed by students Lara Gloder and Eero Nikoskelainen.
Open-source AI is a national advantage.
The effect is akin to studying together to ace a test, rather than relying on individual intelligence.
www.ft.com/content/b1f9...
The effect is akin to studying together to ace a test, rather than relying on individual intelligence.
www.ft.com/content/b1f9...
China’s open-source AI is a national advantage
The models are akin to studying together to ace a test instead of relying on individual knowledge
www.ft.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Open-source AI is a national advantage.
The effect is akin to studying together to ace a test, rather than relying on individual intelligence.
www.ft.com/content/b1f9...
The effect is akin to studying together to ace a test, rather than relying on individual intelligence.
www.ft.com/content/b1f9...
Don't ask AI what AI thinks. Ask who is an expert on that topic and what would the expert say.
December 7, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Don't ask AI what AI thinks. Ask who is an expert on that topic and what would the expert say.