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Great to Good?

A few weeks ago I was at a meeting of the Advisory Council of Prosperar, the National Investment Agency of Argentina. There, Alec Oxenford mentioned something that truly concerns me: He said that in a speech a few days ago he asked the audience who was their most admired businessperson. And everyone in the audience looked at him as if he was crazy. And that, after thinking for while, the only answer they could think of was Marcelo Tinelli.

You may like better Bill Gates or Steve Jobs. Larry Ellison or Jack Welch. Sergey Brin and Larry Page or Jerry Yang and David Filo. But what there is no doubt about is that in cultures such as the U.S., among the most admired people there are many entrepreneurs. In Argentina being a businessman is a stigma.

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Football, the true Digital Game!

Those who know me well, know that one of my biggest passions is Football… Yes, that is not a typo for Futbol (Soccer). I mean American Football. This blog would not be a true reflection of who I am without some space devoted to that.

All of you reading this outside of the USA must be thinking: “Ugh! That boring game that lasts three hours and stops for commercials all the time?!”. Well, I want to make a bet here: Without knowing anything about you, if you like business, economics or finance, the day you give Football a chance you will never leave it.

And, believe it or not, the reason why it is so captivating is precisely because it stops so much. Let’s see…

Futbol (Soccer) is an Analog game. It is continuous. Even when the ball goes out the field, the clock does not stop and what players are doing is not significantly affected. The game flows…

Football is Digital! It is a long succession of confrontations, with a begging and an end, as if they were zeros and ones.