Will Europe ever join the $1 trillion club?

In December 2025 there are eleven companies with a market cap above $1 trillion. Nine of them are in the U.S., with Saudi Aramco and Taiwan's TSMC completing the list. Why do the U.S. firms dominate the club? And what would it take for a European company to join them?

The Influencers: Erin Meyer On Reading the Room, Anywhere in the World

Ranked among the world’s most influential thinkers by Thinkers50, Meyer has built a career out of decoding why people from different cultures hear the same words but interpret entirely different meanings, and why so many global teams fail not because of strategy or skill, but because of misread signals.

How Will Sam Altman Raise His Child? The Steve Jobs Paradox

Steve Jobs told a reporter, “We limit how much technology our kids use at home." It’s one of the great contradictions of modern tech: the people building the future often don’t want their children fully exposed to it. So what does OpenAI CEO Sam Altman actually wish for his child? Will he pull a Steve Jobs and quietly lock the AI toys in a metaphorical cupboard while the rest of us raise our kids with ChatGPT co-parenting from the cloud?

What A Simple Thank You Can Do

Can a simple exercise in gratitude at Thanksgiving teach us something about building stronger teams and healthier workplaces? The work of Wharton’s Adam M. Grant and former HBS professor Francesca Gino shows that expressions of gratitude aren’t just nice gestures. They can trigger a cascade of pro-social behaviour, improved collaboration, and better well-being.

The Influencers: Rory Sutherland on Marketing Magic and Career Mischief

Rory Sutherland, Vice Chairman of Ogilvy UK and author of Alchemy, argues that the world runs not on logic but on psychology, imagination, and delight. The BlueSky Thinking series, The Influencers captures irreverent marketing philosophy which celebrates irrational ideas, reframing, and experimentation over data-driven rigidity.