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Aug 28, 2026 ∙ 4 min
Ray Zinn: The Anti-Blitzscaler — 37 Profitable Years and the Case for Discipline
What Is This About? After a run of profiles on Berlin's speed-obsessed company-builders, this is the deliberate counterpoint: Ray Zinn, the American semiconductor founder who ran Micrel for 37 years, took no venture capital, stayed profitable for 36 of those years, and turned discipline into a management philosophy. If Rocket Internet is the case for blitzscaling, Zinn is the case against it. Introduction Raymond "Ray" Zinn (born 1937) is an American semiconductor entrepreneur, inventor, and...
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Aug 27, 2026 ∙ 60 min
Europe's SME Credit Gap Is Not a Funding Gap. It's an Underwriting Problem.
Teylor founder Patrick Stäuble on why banks left small-ticket SME lending, what three acquisitions in eighteen months actually bought, and the EU AI Act deadline that just moved.
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Aug 25, 2026 ∙ 28 min
E770 HappyRobot: The $1.2 Billion Unicorn Munich Formed and San Francisco Owns
HappyRobot announced a $1.2B post-money valuation in August 2026. TUM calls it unicorn #23. It is a Delaware corporation headquartered in San Francisco. Inside the four-address gap between where a company is formed and who ends up owning it.
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