Andrea Zanon’s

As AI’s energy demands skyrocket, data centers face growing environmental backlash on Earth. Jeff Bezos and leading innovators propose a radical alternative — orbital data centers powered by constant solar energy. Can space-based computing become the sustainable...

In an age of outrage, snark, and speed, kindness can feel like pointless, or worse, a liability. But in Italy and increasingly across the corporate world, it’s still seen as a form of strength. The ability to stay calm, warm, and courteous, especially under pressure,...

When an Italian responds to a setback with “Nessun problema” (No problem or all good), they’re showing a fundamental cultural philosophy about problem-solving that separates winners from everyone else. This attitude, in part rooted in Italian culture’s focus on...

After over twenty years advising founders and thirteen ministers of finance, I've witnessed a seismic shift in business. While AI dominates headlines and technology promises to solve everything, the most successful leaders are quietly mastering something irreplaceably...

Everyone's talking about when AI will become sentient, replace human jobs, or solve climate change. But there's a much more immediate problem that could derail the entire AI revolution before any of that happens: we might literally run out of power to run these...

Why thinking 100x bigger is the smartest move you can make There's a piece of business advice that gets repeated like gospel: "Under-promise and over-deliver." It sounds safe. Responsible. Professional. Mature. Is it? It's also a mental trap. If you're trying to be...

We are living through a shift in how companies compete, grow, and survive. Innovation alone no longer guarantees market access. Regulation, stakeholder influence, markets changes, public funding, and public trust play just as critical a role especially for technology...

We are living through the greatest revolution of our generation. Artificial intelligence is disrupting industries, changing the rules of creativity, and automating much of what we once thought required the human touch. AI can write, invest your money, paint, compose...

Scarcity Is an Advantage: Lessons from My Italian Recovery Plan We all go through it.You lose a client.A deal falls apart.A job slips away.A relationship ends. It happened to me last week. A client I’d worked hard to secure suddenly pulled the plug. And for a moment,...

I grew up in a traditional Catholic family, so I never wore shorts or flip flops to dinner, semi-formal gatherings, or God forbid to church. That kind of attire simply wasn’t part of my local culture in Veneto where I grew up in. Fast forward to 2025, and while...