Sergio Gago – CTO, Guitarist, and Reluctant Frontman There’s a reason great teams feel like great music bands, or viceversa. I’m not talking about the dysfunctional ones where the bassist walks out mid-tour because the drummer slept with his girlfriend. Or the dysfunctional teams where everybody is fingerpointing each other (note to read Lencioni’s “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team”).… Read more →
It is 6am, at least somewhere in the world. I am in a transatlantic flight on and I refuse to count the number of miles. I am a “road warrior” as they say. Spend two to three weeks per month traveling. And that affects my health specially with the food I eat. Like many people, I decided to start taking… Read more →
For raising future-ready, fully human kids in a machine-run world. 1. We Do Not Raise Workers. We Raise Creators. Jobs are automated. Originality isn’t.We raise kids to build, make, explore, and ship—starting now.If they can imagine it, they can prototype it. 2. We Teach Them to Think From Zero. No parroting. No copy-paste minds.We raise first-principles thinkers who can dismantle… Read more →
Why Now Is the Time to Raise Creators, Not Workers I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what kind of world my daughters will live in when they’re my age. The short version? It won’t be the world I grew up in. Not even close. But that is not a surprise for you innit? Information is instant. Answers are automatic.… Read more →
Agentic AI is now everywhere and virtually every company wants to implement and use them. The rise of the digital colleague is slowly becoming a reality. GenerativeAI told the world that for these systems to work they need access to good, curated, audited data with proper lineage. So the companies that dedicated the last decade to “Big Data” built data… Read more →
First and foremost: I’m not a professional investor. I’m what some call a “business angel” – I give some money to entrepreneurs, usually for them to burn quickly and get nothing in return 🙂 But in the meantime, I learn a lot from the founders and their businesses, sometimes I teach them a thing or two from my experience, and… Read more →
In September I had the pleasure to present in Berlin at the Quantum Summit a guide on how to build a Quantum Computing team in the financial industry.
I’ve been investing in startups for about eight years now, with mixed success. I’m not a professional investor or a venture capitalist; I’m just a CTO with a couple of exits and a few other failures in my background. I’ve seen (part of) the world, and I aim to scale up by supporting entrepreneurs. As such, some of my investments… Read more →
Ok, let’s try to demystify (and simplify) one of the key pillars of quantum computing. The Uncertainty principle (and we will talk about entanglement later). (Proper physicist out there: forgive the blatant simplifications!) Imagine you have a collection of hand gloves, and they have 2 specific properties that are binary and completely unrelated to each other. The gloves can be… Read more →
Do you want to get into Quantum Computing? This is the correct, perfect list of books you have to read, in order. Your mind will explode anyways, but at least it will be one neuron at a time. (This list can be complemented by online materials!). The reason to read them in this order is because you start with the… Read more →