Rebels from the garage BrewDog began as a small Scottish brewery founded by two friends, James Watt and Martin Dickie, who in 2007 brewed beer in a rented garage and sold it out of a van. Their ambition wasn’t to become just another “craft beer”, but to disrupt the entire beer industry. From the start,…
In the final scene of my favorite movie The Last Boy Scout, Joe Hallenbeck (Bruce Willis) explains to his partner Jimmy Dix (Damon Wayans) how disputes are settled. Joe Hallenbeck: We’re living in the nineties. You can’t just walk up to a guy and punch him in the face. You have to say some cool line first.Jimmy…
The Battle of Waterloo was significant not only because it marked Napoleon’s defeat, but also because it showed for the first time that in the world of finance, victory doesn’t belong to the one with the biggest army, but to the one with the fastest information. Thanks to his own network of couriers, Nathan Rothschild…
The closure of the Strait of Hormuz is crushing the global economy. But at the same time, it’s exactly the slap-in-the-face wake‑up call the world needed. Every country is now showing whether it’s capable of strategic thinking, or whether it’s just waiting for someone else to solve its problems. Slovakia and Hungary did practically nothing…
