Roblox move towards video

Reading some news about the evolution of Roblox, I discovered they has developed the ability to: Long story short: they are exploring how to monetize and incorporate videos into their platform. It would be interesting to understand how Google profits from this. When looking at the P&L of the company, there are two things that … Read more

Sovereign debt map

We did an event where we were discussing about sovereign debt. Very interesting conversation where we ended with this map. We discussed about many things, and for just 1 hour we did a lot. Is the map wrong? I’m sure it is, they all are wrong, some are useful.

Private Credits and debt dependencies

Listening the this episode of Kapital’s podcast titled “Too big to bail” (it’s in Spanish), I took my time to draw some of the dependencies commented there. It’s interesting to see how capital flows move from one place to other. After 2008, the commercial banks saw how the regulation limited their ability to get loans … Read more

Weight loss drugs, second session

10 months ago I organized a session to discuss about weight loss drugs. I have followed this sector and I found many advance in just 10 months, so that I felt interested to discuss again with others about it. This was the result map. But I would like to add some comments we reviewed. Notes: … Read more

Tesla Insurance

Coming from the idea that “Your new car is not 100% yours“ Tesla offers insurance based on telemetry data, enabling them to make discounts based on miles, driving patterns and other data extracted from the vehicle. Where? Some data they log Update 24/October/2025 I was wrong, Lemonade (Insurance company), is using the API to track … Read more

Bitcoin Treasuries

A Bitcoin treasury company is a firm that holds a significant portion of its corporate reserves or balance sheet assets in Bitcoin. More specifically, the term often refers to publicly traded companies that: Who are the main clients of these companies? Institutional Investors, specially Funds and Asset Managers, why? Many large institutions, such as retirement … Read more

 Circle Internet Group

This company became public in June, and I was curious about what they do and how they make profits. They do not attend final users, they reach them through exchange markets, payment processors or specific FinTech companies. I did a map to visualize what they do. Who are these clients? Category Examples of Clients / … Read more

Identifying patterns before investing

When operating in a competitive space without a clear business case, where should you invest? Rather than chasing specific opportunities, focus on identifying the patterns and characteristics that signal where investment makes sense. Once you recognize these patterns, seek out the providers that deliver those unusual characteristics—ones that may not yet be mainstream. If we … Read more

Space Research, some maps from the conversations

This September Simon Wardley organized a research around Space. I have participated in the Manufacturing subgroup. I’m documenting some of the things we have been discussing. The question to be answered, The question that serves as goal for the research is to identify the points where investment will go in the future of space industry, … Read more