7 questions answered — by 7Voices 🦄
Groceries delivery, aliens, cryptocurrency, recruitment, LVMH, Human Care & the cloud.
Delivering your groceries in 10 minutes is rather an impossible dream. 🍽
What if aliens were human?
Cryptocurrency is the money of the future ⛓
How would you evaluate yourself to fit-in a job? 🌟
The fashion industry is experiencing a major turn-around. Why? ♻️
Human Care is solving the $175 billion question at the moment 🏥
Internet of things, secured ☁️
Delivering your groceries in 10 minutes is rather an impossible dream. 🍽
I don't know if it's an achievement or laziness, but ordering a Bueno at 3am is now officially possible.
I guess it's a cool app to have, but does it replace the habit of going into your Franprix ‘du quartier’?
Not yet.
What if we needed that f*** Bueno, like now??
Does a drone fill the shoes of Malik, 29 on his electronic customized 🚲 (that cost around €2000 by the way)
I read quite recently the new issue of Challenges that brings up that specific business model & its various advantages (& various disadvantages).
It all ends to the same question:
Does the Uber model work every time?
We saw that Lime stayed alive, eaten by Uber, only because of its popularity and its impeccable service.
A customer support that keeps users to come back and even miss the perks of going from A to B in 10 minutes.
That means that Gorillaz (or any other groceries’ delivery app out there, 15 to be exact) need to evangelize thousands of cities and people before being profitable,
at the sake of many Malik,
risking their lives
for YOUR Bueno,
that will be consumed in less than
One minute.
The worst is yet to come.
Competitions are yet to hit the market, especially that Dija has officially partnered with Deliveroo for its groceries shopping experience.
This is next level future acquirements I'm looking forward to.
What if app would differentiate themselves with microtargeting : deliver whatever you want to whomever you want in 1 click! 🎁
Rachid
What if aliens were human?
Aliens may exist,
but why does every Hollywood film represent them into sticky, weird creatures? 👽
Imagine if Earth was a big scale experiment to see if we end up, like any Hollywood end-of-the-world film, be killed by a deadly virus or its aliens.
What if we were killed by each other? Watch out for this prediction.
What if we survive this and find a cure?
Do you think that our creators, whoever they may be, will descent into earth and start preaching its parole, one day?
What if every storm, every economic crashes, every death was predefined.
What if we are not called Humans.
This challenge to conquer Mars for the wrong reasons is still a debate, but do you really think that colonizing another Planet is the solution to finding our reason-to-be?
I thoroughly understand why people need to reach the stars, but I always thought of that as an expression to expand further, rather than a life's mission.
How many astronauts are we sending out there, into the darkness?
As of January 2018, 553 people have reached Earth orbit, for 7,800,000,000 people.
Statistically, it represents 0.00007% of the world population.
If, and only if, we wanted to become the next Star Trek movie, we need to create schools for astronauts instead of pre-selecting applicants with 5 hard rounds.
The question remains unanswered.
Are we really alone?
Magalie
Cryptocurrency is the money of the future ⛓
No doubt in that.
The question is whether we are ready for it.
Banks have worked in a very traditional way, offering a rather secured place to stockpiles of physical money, that does not exist…
Only Revolut (& their thousands of Neobanks out there) is capable of breaching the social acceptance of money.
Everything we hoped for, 😈.
Crypto is, by definition, decentralized.
its autoproclamation makes it even harder to crack
Rules are to follow
'users' don't even agree on a common ideology to believe in.
The recent events Dodgecoin🐕 proved the power of voice, quite effective.
Go on, browse on your tweets (or your Reddits) and come back to me with a solution.
How anyone would bring such unstable currencies and tech advancements into the market if the market itself is unexpectedly breached every quarter.
People lost millions during the COVID-19,
do you really think it was a good time to tweet about it and reach millions?
People who made money does think it was a good investment.
People who lost money (1B estimated) disagree.
It's predicted to follow its growth and making rich people richer, poor people, out of the competition.
Once again, the rich will decide its sake and its stability/members.
I would see this kind of movie, like The Social Network, but even geekier with underground parties in Vegas. #SilliconValley
Bernard
How would you evaluate yourself to fit-in a job? 🌟
That's the question I was curious enough to ask HRs in my daily life.
you graduated from Harvard (the best of the best) and you are worth 100K,
you graduated from HEC (local great business school), you are worth 50K as a manager at a recently funded startup.
you graduated from US (Unknown School), you are worth… well, nothing, to be honest.
Oh no. You become eligible for a grant, NGO or even the UN to help you.
Strangely, these little profiles always stand out because
they are hungry for opportunity, instead, the top of the chain who is happy to fill its pocket (it’s an old money Chinese citation I like to use)
Obviously, I'm used to generalizing a metaphor, but
imagine if HR saw something else apart from one's person professional and education path? All they see with a CV, cover letter or video interview is its quick judging.
Judging a person's by its cover, the one thing we were told to not do.
Imagine if we ended up believing in dreams rather than realities?
Imagine an app where everybody you worked with were giving feedback about you and everything was centralized into one reference document.
LinkedIn tried representing this job applicant's review that was based on this theory. It's quite secret, but when you apply to a job through LinkedIn, these recommendations are considered worth your education and your network.
Lara
The fashion industry is experiencing a major turn-around. Why? ♻️
People predict its crash in 5 years, but I doubt that would happen, in that long.
The digitalization of shops and virtual try-ons introduced a new era in client experience, both online and offline.
Furthermore, LVMH proved its power by owning one of the biggest jewelry brand (Tiffany & Co), 75 houses, 15 startups, 1 incubator (at StationF), 7 malls, etc… LVMH proved its sufficient way of creating value in their product and expertise.
They commit.
They take risks.
LVMH was the one who first introduced luxury into gaming, sustainability, eCom or even was the first TikTok fan-of-the-concept.
Remember,
big fish eat smaller fishes that are, themselves, eaten by their owner (Tiffany & Co. + LVMH + Bernard Arnault)
So, I wish that the fashion industry is going to react positively to the tech changes, but I certainly hope they won't react as they did with sustainability.
Luxury is becoming a business model in my opinion, but what should I know?
Most leaders predicted its future projection to be 100% sustainable by X number of year, but didn't show real commitments.
Every press that keep coming at you with doubtful information is known as the Arabic telephone circulating around the startup industry.
One wrong move and the startup is 🛑 , for good.
FYI. Closed to the public since 2005, check out La Samaritaine, a new fancy mall in Paris, signed LVMH x France rumoured to have cost as much as $750 million.
Megan
Human Care is solving the $175 billion question at the moment.🏥
Whether Pfizer vaccine need a third dose to treat all variants, how to restructure hospitals and the urge need of telemedicine.
I recently watched the New Amsterdam series and I think, even if I love Grey's Anatomy & adventure, it is a smart series, looking at human care from a different perspective:
the eyes of the first frontline,
fighting against depression,
corrupt healthcare & insurances,
cancer or any other matters a major city can encounter.
This series made me think: How are profitable hospitals reorganizing its care to human?
What did we really improve in our constant fight against the living?
I truly believe we are meant to excel in experimenting, but thriving in succeeding.
Where did this hope vanish away? When?
Did we stop believing in ourselves or the opposite, did we believe too much in our strength and forgot our weaknesses?
I think we do have a chance to prove our creators wrong.
Let’s test more.
Sarah
Internet of things, secured ☁️
The cloud made Empires (these) rethink their structures, productivity 1.1.
The war between Google and Apple is still happening, but cloud raised its advantages.
I had the chance to try multiple password security apps, photo sharing apps & many businesses accounts on Google Drive, Notion, iCloud, etc…
I truly believe that, to build an efficient virtual vault that respects the Good Code of the Internet, security is key.
a personal account would need shopping ads privacy. Think Instagram V2, WeChat + Tencent.
an FFF account would need photos, movies, music and games shared by all members. Think Apple Arcade for games, Google Photos for photos & albums.
all business accounts, S/M/L would need secure access to files, passwords, Todoist & a stable database to store users’ data & beyond. Think GitHub + AWS.
Every startup has the perk to scale fast as their employee count grow, and their tech stack complicates itself.
(not necessarily, thanks to Notion + Airtable)
What if we were to build products that are flexible enough to grow at ease?
Shadi
These questions remain unanswered, but it’s our job to answer the unanswered and find a solution for every problem we can possibly encounter. All scenarios need to be studied and tested.
We are the future generation that must co-live and co-build to thrive for excellence.
The only way to answer the many questions of the universe is to question ourselves constantly, challenge yourselves to the urgent need of bringing viable solutions for everyone, not just Malik or Bernard 😉