The Gryphon interviews Tim Knickmann, cofounder of the business venture JetLink, a project aiming to make chartered air travel accessible. As Tim relaxes in to his seat with a coffee in one hand and a […]
A Week For, Hopefully, a Long Career in Finance
Photo from : Wikipedia Most people interested in Finance will have heard of the so-called “Spring weeks”; the mystical and elusive ‘internships’ for first years. I got accepted for three internships: Rothschild and HSBC, which […]
Another Fragment in the Rise of Modern Populism
On Wednesday (14.03.2017), the Dutch went to the polls. The options were varied, with 28 parties running for seats in parliament. And like so many political events since the summer of 2016, populism is overshadowing […]
Uber CEO calls out for Help after Latest Feud
Uber has not had a good start to its year. Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has been filmed swearing at one of the companies drivers who was expressing his grievances about falling incomes and the structure […]
Moving money in/to the 21st Century: the new Peer-to-Peer payment system
Do you know PayPal’s vision when it was created? Well it was one of smiling people that split the bill after having brunch together but don’t have to squander their time looking for correct change. […]
Peugeot Gearing up for Acquisition of GM European Unit
On Tuesday (February 14th) it was revealed that Peugeot (formally PSA Group) is in advanced talks to buy GM’s European Unit. For most of us that is Opel/Vauxhall. To give some context to the deal; […]
Putting the Chips down: Gambling in the Student Body
Reading the Statistics for Student budgeting is grizzly. Average spending is £745 a month, while receiving only £480 in maintenance loans. Although a fair proportion earn extra money through subsidisation from parents (71%), this still […]
Putting the fag out: the future of smoking
(Photo from: StopSmokingNews) Ask someone standing outside Terrace with a pint in one hand and a cigarette in the other about their smoking habit. The conversation will probably go along these lines: “Are you a […]
Snap.Send.View.Gone. Snapchat
(Photo from : Pageone.com) Snap. Send. View. Gone. This has been the model for Snapchat since its creation by Evan Spiegel and Robert Murphy in 2011. Its success so far is undeniable. More generally, in […]
Teaching Excellence Fiasco
In November of 2015, the government published a paper titled “Fulfilling our Potential: Teaching Excellence, Social Mobility and Student Choice”. This was followed up by a Green Paper (“The Teaching Excellence Framework: Assessing quality in […]
The modern day hotel
(Photo from : dwglogo.com) On the start-up scene, Airbnb is mentioned in the same breath as Uber. The start-ups which have revolutionized an industry and are on their way to be the next Google or Apple. […]
Interesting start ups
(Photo from : Forbes.com) In the UK, nearly 600,000 business were opened, amounting to roughly one every minute. To keep track of all of them is impossible, and even to pick out the best ones […]