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August 2026

July 2026

I gave an AI agent a desk. It matches startups every Monday at 8am.
Why the tool everyone underrates (Notion) became the place I design how people and AI work together to drive Innovation.
 • Davide Ritorto
☕️ Innovation Espresso #79
AI eats content search, Coca-Cola refreshes its brand, mastering the serial builder edge, and the usual shots of corporate venturing news!
 • Davide Ritorto
What if you disappear tomorrow?
If your innovation unit vanished tomorrow, who would actually fight to keep it?
 • Davide Ritorto
☕️ Innovation Espresso #78
AI cleanups intensify, Apple battles OpenAI, Steve Blank talks strategy, and the usual shots of corporate venturing news!
 • Davide Ritorto
Everyone wants to be Batman. You need to be Robin.
Stop trying to be the hero of innovation. Equip the ones who already own the outcome.
 • Davide Ritorto
☕️ Innovation Espresso #77
Fighting the AI noise, Bending Spoons kills luck, Nolan hacks IMAX, and the usual shots of corporate venturing news!
 • Davide Ritorto
More startups won't make you more innovative. Notes from my Venture Clienting panel at GCV Symposium.
What I argued on stage, and the lines from the other panelists I keep coming back to.
 • Davide Ritorto
What I wrote down at VivaTech 2026
The numbers, the quotes, and the corporate venturing lessons I carried out of Paris.
 • Davide Ritorto

June 2026

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