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December 19, 2025

Why Founders Blow It When They Hire Fast

Rushed hires kill momentum faster than a dodgy funding round. Here’s why founders make bad calls under pressure – and how to avoid nuking your own team with the wrong hire when you’re scaling.

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December 15, 2025

Tesla’s Sales Surge: A Hiring Lesson

What do Tesla’s 8-year growth trends in Europe have in common with your struggles scaling a data team? Quite a lot, actually. Here’s what EV model sales data can teach us about momentum, hiring timing, and strategic recruitment.

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December 12, 2025

Why Auto AI Hype Is Running Out of Petrol

Gartner reckons the AI engine in automotive is set to stall by 2029. Here’s why the brakes are screeching—and what it reveals about hype, hiring, and hype-hiring cycles in any tech business.

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December 8, 2025

Why Automotive AI Is Hitting the Brakes

Gartner says AI investment in automotive will nosedive by 2029. What’s behind the skid — and what can tech leaders learn from it before their own AI hype train derails?

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December 5, 2025

Why DeepSeek’s AI Move Changes Everything

DeepSeek just gave away a GPT-5-level open source AI — and that’s not just a tech flex. This shift could upend how start-ups, scale-ups and technical teams build, hire and compete. Let’s talk about why this matters… a lot.

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December 1, 2025

When Influence Becomes a Business Plan

David Sacks could end up steering national AI and crypto policy—while holding stakes in both. Let’s not pretend this isn’t a tech recruiting lesson in disguise.

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November 28, 2025

Why Hiring’s Not Like Buying a TV

Snagging the perfect OLED on Cyber Monday is thrilling—but if only hiring a star engineer was that simple. Here's why recruitment isn't like snagging a telly deal, and what to do before your talent strategy ends in static.

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November 24, 2025

Why AI Hype Won’t Replace Great Hiring

Everyone’s banging on about AI like it’s the second coming—but when it comes to hiring? The robots aren’t your saviour. Here’s why the AI noise is a distraction for founders who actually want to build a brilliant team.

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November 15, 2025

AI’s Dirty Little Secret: It’s Out of Juice

AI may be eating the world, but it’s also blowing the fuse box while it’s at it. Power-hungry data centres are tripping over the one thing they can’t innovate away: electricity.

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November 14, 2025

Why Your AI Team Can’t Wait for RTX 5000

Sure, Nvidia’s RTX 5000 Super GPUs aren’t cancelled — just fashionably late. But if you're staking your data team's future on them, you're playing the wrong game. Here’s why smart tech leaders aren’t waiting on hardware to move fast.

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November 12, 2025

Google Gemini & the Danger of Half-Launches

Google’s messy rollout of Gemini Home isn’t just a Big Tech blunder — it’s a cautionary tale for scale-ups. Here’s what it teaches us about product maturity, hiring readiness, and why chaos loves a vague roadmap.

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November 9, 2025

Data Centres Are Power Hungry Beasts

AI’s appetite is fuelling huge expansions in data centres — but there's a glaring power problem. Here's what founders, CTOs, and data leaders need to know (and do) before the lights flicker.

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