I’m going to go straight to the point: We live in the 21st century. In this stage of humanity’s evolution, it’s perfectly fine to have sex with someone just for the fan of it, just for the sake of pleasure. By the way, this statement has been standing true throughout…

May 19th marks the commemoration of the Pontic genocide, one of the darkest pages in recent European history. The Burning of Smyrna in 1922 signaled the — temporary, hopefully — termination of more than 30 centuries of Greek population presence in Asia Minor (with the exception of Constantinople, where the…

​Eleusis, probably the antiquity’s most sacred place in Greece, has been a cradle of culture and arts throughout the centuries. Since the middle of the 20th century, however, Eleusis and the surrounding area, most notably my hometown of Aspropyrgos, have turned to a — notoriously unplanned — industrial area with…

One of my colleagues recently shared the photo below from a hiring post by AirBnB, which I trust is legit: My colleague was asking the rest of the team about their pertinent thoughts. Instead of a lengthy answer, I replied by suggest a book: “Worthless, Impossible, and Stupid: How Contrarian…

I am really thrilled to share that yesterday, Thursday April 14th 2022, marks quite a historical day for the Hellenic Angels as we have completed our first financing, the one of Swaplanet.com I’d like to warmly thank All of the fellow angel investors who took part in this very interesting…

March 18th, 2022, is the official day of birth of the Movimento Insieme for the European Federal Union! We have completed its formalization as an Italian association. I’d like to thank each and everyone of the approximately 500 fellow European who have already been part of this endeavor. Movimento Insieme…

The world is watching the developments in Ukraine. I don’t mean to make any geopolitical analysis in this short message, as there are numerous resources already available. …

Almost twenty-two years ago, while being an undergrad student of Computer Science at the University of Crete (famously and rightfully known, back then, as the “Harvard of the Mediterranean”), I took the crazy decision to “start a company”, simply because it just was “the obvious thing to do”. Thankfully, I…

Back in 2015 I started asking myself why is it that so many companies fail, even if they’re very well funded, equipped with the world’s brightest brains and addressing large and fast growing markets? In the quest to respond to this question, I got astonished to discover that in most…