sharp10 Global Trends by Andrea Anderheggen

Welcome to a new episode of the sharp 10 Global Trends Podcast. My name is Andrea, and today we are talking about the cost of wars, not just in lives, which we already know is unbearable, but in money, in opportunity costs, in the futures we are quietly choosing not to build. Here is the number that started this episode for me. Between the wars in Ukraine, Gaza, and Iran, and the planned military...

Welcome to a new episode of the sharp10 Global Trends podcast. My name is Andrea, and today we're diving into something that might sound a bit abstract at first, the values of the European Union. Now, you might be thinking, "Values? That sounds a little dry, maybe even boring." But stay with me, because by the end of this episode, I think you'll see this very differently. What struck me while prep...

Today we're diving into geopolitical tensions. It's a big topic and a hot one. It deserves more context than usual, especially for a podcast focused on business insights for executives and founders. Something has changed. The world feels different now. Think back 10, maybe 15 years. Yes, we had major crises between 2000 and 2016. The September 11th attacks, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the gl...

It's April 2026, and everyone is talking about AI, your colleagues, your LinkedIn feed, probably even your dentist. But very few are asking the question that actually matters: Where are the opportunities right now and in the next 10 years? Because this shift is not just about better technology, it is changing who wins, who falls behind, and where real value is created. For entrepreneurs and job se...

Imagine this: You’re sitting with friends and someone says, “You know what someone should build?” Ideas start flying. Everyone has one. Everyone feels like discovering the next big thing. And the next day, nothing happens. The idea that felt so obvious at midnight looks a lot less revolutionary over breakfast. Because having an idea is easy. It’s exciting. It’s safe. But building a company, that’s...

Will AI take your job? Or even more radical, will humans even matter economically anymore? It’s March twenty twenty-six, and the headlines are getting tough to ignore. UPS just laid off forty-eight thousand people blaming their new AI-driven network of the future. Amazon has already cut another sixteen thousand this year on top of fourteen thousand last year. Accenture, Citigroup, Goldman, Klarna,...

From Silicon Valley to Washington and even within Europe itself, the European Union has become a favourite target for criticism. Too regulated. Too slow. Too weak. But what happens when you test that narrative against the actual data? And what is the case for the European Union? In this episode, Andrea Anderheggen sits down with Claude, an AI developed by Anthropic, to examine the EU's achievement...