Design2Disrupt: Mark Plakias (Vice President of Knowledge Transfer, Orange Institute)

Dec 8, 2014

Sogeti Labs

Hunting for Billion dollar startups Mark Plakias from Orange Institute talked about their latest research into Unicorns, Startups and Giants. The report was triggered by observations of so called ‘unicorns’ such as Whatsapp, when it was bought by facebook for 19 billion dollars. How could such a small company of fifty people be worth that much money? What does this mean? Orange Institute looked at 60 technology unicorns and found that they represent a total valuation of over $230 billion. Is that a bubble?

Design2Disrupt: Mark Plakias (Vice President of Knowledge Transfer, Orange Institute) from VINTlabs – The Sogeti Trendlab on Vimeo.

This video is part of the Design2Disrupt serie, a collection of video interviews shot during the 2014 Sogeti Executive Summit in Munich. Watch the previous videos:

• Jochen Burckhardt (IBM Research)
• Jospeh Pine (Strategic Horizons)
• Didier Bonnet (Capgemini Consulting)
• John Hogan (IBM Watson)
• Tim O’Brien (Microsoft)
• Hannu Kauppinen (Nokia)
• Ted Schadler (Forrester)

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Sogeti Labs

SogetiLabs gathers distinguished technology leaders from around the Sogeti world. It is an initiative explaining not how IT works, but what IT means for business.

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