Peter Fisk’s Blog
Small nations with big impact … How Estonia is rewriting the rules of global innovation, from Bolt’s mobility to Starship’s robots … inspired by small champions like Ireland and Iceland, Singapore to Switzerland
May 19, 2026
This week I’m working with a group of Estonian business leaders. Estonia, and the Baltics more generally, are a great source of entrepreneurial spirit, with small companies thinking well beyond their physical size or geographical domains. Some years ag …
HYBE … Reinventing music around fans … how a small Seoul music company built around BTS became a global entertainment ecosystem
May 18, 2026
The traditional music business has always revolved around the artist: Find talent. Make music. Promote it. Sell recordings. Organise concerts. Repeat. HYBE saw something bigger. What if the real opportunity wasn’t simply producing more successful artis …
Pop Mart … How a small Beijing lifestyle store became a global cultural phenomenon … and what its reinvention teaches us about future brands, market making and the value of what a business could become
May 18, 2026
Pop Mart is easy to misunderstand. At first glance, it is a toy company riding the extraordinary popularity of Labubu, the mischievous character with pointed ears and a toothy grin that has appeared on handbags, social feeds and celebrity collections a …
Trailblazer Leaders … why the future belongs to the people who continuously evolve faster than the world around them … driven by psychology not technology, stepping up to shape the future
May 15, 2026
There are moments in history when leadership itself changes shape. Not gradually, and not in ways that can be neatly captured by new tools or management fashions, but in a deeper shift in what organisations believe they exist to do. We are living throu …
Innovative London … Checkout to Deepmind, Notpla and Nscale, Nothing to Octopus, Olio and Revolut, Tala to Wayve … 10 London-based innovators quietly rebuilding the operating system of the modern economy
May 14, 2026
There are moments when a city stops behaving like a place and starts behaving like a platform. London is in one of those moments. For most of the past two centuries, its identity was relatively stable: global finance in the Square Mile, legal gravity a …
Javier Goyeneche, founder of ECOALF … “I want to be the Ralph Lauren of sustainable fashion” … made with fishing nets, plastic bottles and coffee grinds … the Spanish entrepreneur shares his passion
May 10, 2026
In many ways, Javier Goyeneche represents a new kind of entrepreneur for the 21st century: part fashion visionary, part systems thinker, part environmental activist, and part industrial innovator. While many sustainability pioneers focused on guilt, sa …
“Fall in love with the problem” … entrepreneurial lessons for business leaders from Uri Levine, the founder of Waze and other unicorns
May 10, 2026
There are entrepreneurs who create companies, and there are entrepreneurs who fundamentally change how people think about innovation. Uri Levine belongs firmly in the second category. Best known as the co-founder of Waze, the crowdsourced navigation pl …
The Thrive Manifesto … How future-ready leaders turn pressure into possibility, performance into flourishing … and change into a force for human and business growth
May 10, 2026
There is a moment in every great athlete’s journey when performance becomes something deeper than winning. After years of relentless training, sacrifice, setbacks and recovery, they arrive at a different understanding of excellence. Peak performance is …
Oura … “Give your body a voice” … How a tiny ring became a global health-intelligence platform
May 8, 2026
Most wearable technology started with a simple idea: measure what people do. Count their steps. Record their runs. Measure their heart rate. Track their calories. Oura started somewhere different. What if the more valuable information was what your bod …
Alma Carraovejas … inspired by great Spanish wines, and reflecting on the power of a family business … rediscover time, build with purpose, innovate from within, invest in people, make a difference
May 6, 2026
The road out of the beautiful, historic Spanish city of Segovia rises gently up to the Castilian plateau, a landscape shaped as much by time as by terrain. Vineyards stretch across the horizon, their geometry softened by wind and season, their roots di …