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.
Finland's most accomplished startup founder Miki Kuusi visited Aalto Founder School to share his thoughts and experiences in an awesome fireside chat with two students.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIFg...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIFg...
Founder Talks #3: Miki Kuusi, CEO of Deliveroo and Head of DoorDash International
YouTube video by Aalto University
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November 13, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Finland's most accomplished startup founder Miki Kuusi visited Aalto Founder School to share his thoughts and experiences in an awesome fireside chat with two students.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIFg...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIFg...
We humans cling to assumptions, instincts and habits.
November 12, 2025 at 8:43 PM
We humans cling to assumptions, instincts and habits.
How to be a Founder, by Alice Bentinck and Matt Clifford (2022).
"Success is not dependent on what you already know, but on what you learn through pursuing a particular solution to a particular problem."
"Success is not dependent on what you already know, but on what you learn through pursuing a particular solution to a particular problem."
November 12, 2025 at 6:37 AM
How to be a Founder, by Alice Bentinck and Matt Clifford (2022).
"Success is not dependent on what you already know, but on what you learn through pursuing a particular solution to a particular problem."
"Success is not dependent on what you already know, but on what you learn through pursuing a particular solution to a particular problem."
Kasvun kaava, Wolt-tarina, Startup-käsikirja. Voittamattoman kolmikon kirjailijat Akateemisessa huomenna 12.11.2025
akateeminen.com/tuoteryhma/1...
akateeminen.com/tuoteryhma/1...
Tapahtumat | 12.11. Katja Boxberg ja Juhani Mykkänen, Mårten
Tapahtumat | 12.11. Katja Boxberg ja Juhani Mykkänen, Mårten
akateeminen.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Kasvun kaava, Wolt-tarina, Startup-käsikirja. Voittamattoman kolmikon kirjailijat Akateemisessa huomenna 12.11.2025
akateeminen.com/tuoteryhma/1...
akateeminen.com/tuoteryhma/1...
OpenAI thinks it's now or never. Anthropic thinks it's a long obstacle course.
Within their respective beliefs, both are acting rationally.
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...
Within their respective beliefs, both are acting rationally.
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...
Anthropic Is on Track to Turn a Profit Much Faster Than OpenAI
Financial documents from both companies show the different approaches they are taking to the AI boom.
www.wsj.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:35 AM
OpenAI thinks it's now or never. Anthropic thinks it's a long obstacle course.
Within their respective beliefs, both are acting rationally.
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...
Within their respective beliefs, both are acting rationally.
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...
Mielenkiintoista keskustelua Isak Raution kanssa Futucastissa.
www.futucast.com/jaksot
www.futucast.com/jaksot
JAKSOT | FUTUCAST
Futucast on podcast, joka käsittelee tulevaisuutta yhdessä Suomen huippupäättäjien kanssa. Formaatti on rento, avoin keskustelu, jossa pohditaan isoja ja välillä vaikeitakin kysymyksiä. Tavoite on kok...
www.futucast.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Mielenkiintoista keskustelua Isak Raution kanssa Futucastissa.
www.futucast.com/jaksot
www.futucast.com/jaksot
Amazon, Walmart, and Uber collectively employ almost four million workers (if you count freelance drivers).
theallinpod.substack.com/p/the-terror...
theallinpod.substack.com/p/the-terror...
November 10, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Amazon, Walmart, and Uber collectively employ almost four million workers (if you count freelance drivers).
theallinpod.substack.com/p/the-terror...
theallinpod.substack.com/p/the-terror...
What is it like to work at one of the hottest AI startups in San Francisco?
joincolossus.com/article/insi...
joincolossus.com/article/insi...
Inside Cursor
Sixty days with the AI coding decacorn
joincolossus.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:48 PM
What is it like to work at one of the hottest AI startups in San Francisco?
joincolossus.com/article/insi...
joincolossus.com/article/insi...
Everything in America is bigger because things grow faster.
November 8, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Everything in America is bigger because things grow faster.
Should we worry about the hyperscalers' depreciation schedules for GPUs?
www.mbi-deepdives.com/why-i-dont-w...
www.mbi-deepdives.com/why-i-dont-w...
Why I don't worry (as much) about big tech's depreciation schedule
In early 2025, I wrote about big tech’s deteriorating earnings quality primarily because of their gradual extension of useful lives for their servers in the last five years. Over the course of this ye...
www.mbi-deepdives.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Should we worry about the hyperscalers' depreciation schedules for GPUs?
www.mbi-deepdives.com/why-i-dont-w...
www.mbi-deepdives.com/why-i-dont-w...
AI bubble: Speculation in equity is not the main problem. It is debt-financed speculation that leads to economic disaster when a bubble inevitably bursts.
www.project-syndicate.org/onpoint/will...
www.project-syndicate.org/onpoint/will...
In Search of the AI Bubble’s Economic Fundamentals
William H. Janeway explains why the sector might be better off if the reckoning comes sooner rather than after leverage piles up.
www.project-syndicate.org
November 7, 2025 at 5:53 PM
AI bubble: Speculation in equity is not the main problem. It is debt-financed speculation that leads to economic disaster when a bubble inevitably bursts.
www.project-syndicate.org/onpoint/will...
www.project-syndicate.org/onpoint/will...
Slingshots are no-strings-attached research collaborations and grants designed to help computer science researchers move their work forward. Every recipient pledges to ship their work into the world — through an open-source project, startup, or other artifact.
www.laude.org/updates/slin...
www.laude.org/updates/slin...
Slingshots // One: Our First Grant Cohort
Laude's inaugural grant cohort supporting eleven groundbreaking AI research projects across leading institutions. From interactive AGI benchmarks to biomedical AI platforms, this diverse cohort tackle...
www.laude.org
November 7, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Slingshots are no-strings-attached research collaborations and grants designed to help computer science researchers move their work forward. Every recipient pledges to ship their work into the world — through an open-source project, startup, or other artifact.
www.laude.org/updates/slin...
www.laude.org/updates/slin...
Think of AI as a tool, not as a worker.
www.oreilly.com/radar/jensen...
www.oreilly.com/radar/jensen...
Jensen Huang Gets It Wrong, Claude Gets It Right
Why It’s Better for Us to Think of AI as a Tool than as a Worker
www.oreilly.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Think of AI as a tool, not as a worker.
www.oreilly.com/radar/jensen...
www.oreilly.com/radar/jensen...
My book launch event on the Aalto University campus. Conversations about leadership and growth - in Finnish.
www.youtube.com/live/CGmMOEb...
www.youtube.com/live/CGmMOEb...
Mårten Mickos' book event
YouTube video by Aalto University
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November 5, 2025 at 1:20 PM
My book launch event on the Aalto University campus. Conversations about leadership and growth - in Finnish.
www.youtube.com/live/CGmMOEb...
www.youtube.com/live/CGmMOEb...
How much would market caps go down if circular AI deals were backed out? 10-15%, calculates Chris Tacy.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/privat...
www.linkedin.com/pulse/privat...
A Private Market Analysis of Circular Deals and Their Impact on AI Valuations
The AI sector's explosive growth has been fueled by an unprecedented network of circular financing arrangements; deals where infrastructure suppliers, cloud providers, and AI companies invest in each ...
www.linkedin.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:13 AM
How much would market caps go down if circular AI deals were backed out? 10-15%, calculates Chris Tacy.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/privat...
www.linkedin.com/pulse/privat...
Chief of Staff: Two-thirds were promoted after serving as chiefs of staff, while 18% used the role as a launching pad for lateral moves (some into a different industry or function).
www.mckinsey.com/capabilities...
www.mckinsey.com/capabilities...
www.mckinsey.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Chief of Staff: Two-thirds were promoted after serving as chiefs of staff, while 18% used the role as a launching pad for lateral moves (some into a different industry or function).
www.mckinsey.com/capabilities...
www.mckinsey.com/capabilities...
When fear runs the show, the goal subtly shifts from making the right decision to avoiding the wrong one.
Those two things are worlds apart.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/leadin...
Those two things are worlds apart.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/leadin...
Leading Without Fear: The Psychological Maturity Behind Sound Judgment
(Part 4 of The Best Leaders Playbook — Inner Mastery Series)
The Smart Leader’s Blind Spot It’s strange how often the smartest people make the worst decisions under pressure. They don’t lose IQ.
www.linkedin.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:29 PM
When fear runs the show, the goal subtly shifts from making the right decision to avoiding the wrong one.
Those two things are worlds apart.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/leadin...
Those two things are worlds apart.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/leadin...
To pay for their deals, OpenAI needs to get close to $1 Trillion in revenues in 2030
www.linkedin.com/pulse/openai...
www.linkedin.com/pulse/openai...
OpenAI's $1 Trillion Infrastructure Spend
OpenAI has committed to spending $1.15 trillion on hardware & cloud infrastructure between 2025 & 2035.
www.linkedin.com
November 4, 2025 at 2:40 AM
To pay for their deals, OpenAI needs to get close to $1 Trillion in revenues in 2030
www.linkedin.com/pulse/openai...
www.linkedin.com/pulse/openai...
People have spoken highly of the podcast I did with Mike Maples a few months ago, so here is the link again:
greatness.floodgate.com/episodes/mar...
greatness.floodgate.com/episodes/mar...
Mårten Mickos: Essential Lessons From A Legendary Tech CEO | Pattern Breakers
Mårten Mickos isn't the kind of CEO who tries to dream up world-changing ideas or invent brand new markets. Perhaps best known for leading MySQL to becoming a $1 billion success story that powered Fac...
greatness.floodgate.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:35 PM
People have spoken highly of the podcast I did with Mike Maples a few months ago, so here is the link again:
greatness.floodgate.com/episodes/mar...
greatness.floodgate.com/episodes/mar...
Kaikki raha on Amerikassa. Tämä tosiasia ei ole muuttunut, vaikka maa on kehittynyt poliittisesti pelottavaksi ja oudoksi. Ei ole muuta vaihtoehtoa. Jos pelottaa, niin jääkää sitten kotiin, Tero Kuittinen toteaa.
@teroterotero.bsky.social
@tmu.bsky.social
yle.fi/a/74-20190638
@teroterotero.bsky.social
@tmu.bsky.social
yle.fi/a/74-20190638
Nokian romahduksen läheltä nähnyt analyytikko Yhdysvalloista: Kukaan ei välitä Suomesta, mutta Ruotsi voi auttaa meitä
Amerikkalaisten mielissä Ruotsin ja Suomen ero on häilyvä. Ruotsista löytyy useita menestyviä tekoäly-yrityksiä, joiden vanavedessä suomalaisyritykset voisivat päästä maailmalle.
yle.fi
November 2, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Kaikki raha on Amerikassa. Tämä tosiasia ei ole muuttunut, vaikka maa on kehittynyt poliittisesti pelottavaksi ja oudoksi. Ei ole muuta vaihtoehtoa. Jos pelottaa, niin jääkää sitten kotiin, Tero Kuittinen toteaa.
@teroterotero.bsky.social
@tmu.bsky.social
yle.fi/a/74-20190638
@teroterotero.bsky.social
@tmu.bsky.social
yle.fi/a/74-20190638
Bubbles end not when there’s nothing underneath, but when we realize there’s nothing underneath. - Quentin Hardy
November 1, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Bubbles end not when there’s nothing underneath, but when we realize there’s nothing underneath. - Quentin Hardy