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Marten Mickos @martenmickos.bsky.social · 8h

So fast to 500 million in annually recurring revenues!

Marten Mickos @martenmickos.bsky.social · 16h

America should be adding about 80 gigawatts of new power generation capacity a year to keep pace with digital demands. It’s currently building less than 65 gigawatts.
Last year, China added 429 gigawatts and USA 50.
www.wsj.com/business/ene...

AI Data Centers, Desperate for Electricity, Are Building Their Own Power Plants

Utilities are pushing to increase supply, but meeting the surge in demand won’t be easy or fast. Tech companies aren’t waiting around.

www.wsj.com

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Marten Mickos @martenmickos.bsky.social · 23h

MUST READ: Language is the software that installs belief.

patternbreakers.substack.com/p/languaging...

Languaging: The Software of Belief

Pattern-breaking companies install radically different beliefs through language.

patternbreakers.substack.com

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Marten Mickos @martenmickos.bsky.social · 2d

High standards can lead to micromanagement, but mostly it is fear that leads to it. Fix your fear.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/fear-b...

The Fear Beneath Control: How Insecurity Masquerades as Strength (Part 1 of The Best Leaders Playbook — Inner Mastery Series)

You’ve Met This Leader — Maybe You’ve Been This Leader They’re in every company. The one who rewrites your email “just to tighten it up,” sits in on meetings they don’t need to, and then complains tha...

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Marten Mickos @martenmickos.bsky.social · 2d

Practical guide to performance management in a startup's various stages
taito.ai/articles/per...

How Performance Management Should Evolve as a Startup Grows | A Practical Guide for Founders

Discover how performance management evolves from pre-seed to Series C. This practical guide for founders and people leaders explains what to focus on at each stage, from defining values and feedback h...

taito.ai

Marten Mickos @martenmickos.bsky.social · 2d

Security Engineer, Systems Integrity to design and implement security architectures for bare-metal infrastructure.
Annual Salary: $300,000 - $405,000 USD.

job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jo...

Security Engineer, Systems Integrity

San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA

job-boards.greenhouse.io

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Marten Mickos @martenmickos.bsky.social · 3d

Bastion of freedom, arsenal of democracy.

www.wsj.com/opinion/inve...

Opinion | Jamie Dimon: Our Investments for National Security

JPMorganChase plans a 10-year, $1.5 trillion initiative to shore up America’s resiliency.

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Marten Mickos @martenmickos.bsky.social · 3d

Concrete and useful AI prompting advice in Finnish by an expert at the Bank of Finland

medium.com/spxfiva-data...

Opas: Tekoäly asiantuntijan työkaluna

Miksi jotkut promptit toimivat ja toiset eivät?

medium.com

Marten Mickos @martenmickos.bsky.social · 3d

No bugs. Seriously.

linear.app/now/zero-bug...

Why we committed to a zero-bugs policy - Linear Now

linear.app

Marten Mickos @martenmickos.bsky.social · 5d

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.
@virginiaminni.bsky.social
www.wsj.com/business/c-s...

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.

www.wsj.com

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Marten Mickos @martenmickos.bsky.social · 6d

The last mile of work is going away thanks to AI

www.n47.com/insights/las...

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.

www.n47.com

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Marten Mickos @martenmickos.bsky.social · 8d

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.
blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-2...

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...

blog.cloudflare.com

Marten Mickos @martenmickos.bsky.social · 8d

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 · 9d

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

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Marten Mickos @martenmickos.bsky.social · 10d

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

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Marten Mickos @martenmickos.bsky.social · 11d

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 · 11d

How should early-stage founders think about boards and advisors?
gigascale.com/insights/boa...

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.

gigascale.com

Marten Mickos @martenmickos.bsky.social · 12d

Graph database for AI: Aura Agent and MCP server for Neo4j.
neo4j.com/blog/genai/n...

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.

neo4j.com

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Marten Mickos @martenmickos.bsky.social · 12d

Circular Financing: Does Nvidia's $110B Bet Echo the Telecom Bubble?
tomtunguz.com/nvidia_norte...

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...

tomtunguz.com

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Senja Larsen @senja.bsky.social · 13d

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 · 13d

What VCs won't say to you but you need to know.
www.clarencebethea.com/whatvcswontsay

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.

www.clarencebethea.com

Marten Mickos @martenmickos.bsky.social · 15d

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

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Marten Mickos @martenmickos.bsky.social · 15d

Breakthrough startup founders see a future that clashes with the present so decisively that most people dismiss it as impossible, stupid, or even crazy.
patternbreakers.substack.com/p/the-heresy...

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.

patternbreakers.substack.com

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Marten Mickos @martenmickos.bsky.social · 15d

Among startups, ugly gross margin early on can lead to great business later
www.notablecap.com/blog/the-gro...

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.

www.notablecap.com

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Marten Mickos @martenmickos.bsky.social · 15d

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.