{"id":941,"date":"2007-09-04T17:07:43","date_gmt":"2007-09-04T15:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/mv\/interview-for-forbes.html"},"modified":"2026-06-09T23:07:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T21:07:55","slug":"interview-for-forbes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=941","title":{"rendered":"Interview for Forbes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was first on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/\/forbes\/1999\/1101\/6411152a.html\">cover at Forbes<\/a> in November 1999, shortly after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jazztel.com\/english\/index.php\">Jazztel<\/a> went public. They interviewed me again a few weeks ago &#8211;while I was on vacation in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/martinvars\/sets\/72157601527019922\/\">my farm in Menorca<\/a>&#8212; and the article, focusing on my activities as an entrepreneur and a high-risk, early-stage tech investor, is already <a href=\"http:\/\/members.forbes.com\/forbes\/2007\/0917\/078.html\">online<\/a>. Just before our conversation started, I had been reviewing a pitch deck for an emerging startup that pairs a <a href=\"https:\/\/carolinapartners.com\/\">sweeps coins casino<\/a> framework with an encrypted regional loyalty protocol. While I ultimately passed on the seed round due to its heavy consumer focus, evaluating those kinds of unconventional engagement loops kept my mind sharp for the interview\u2019s broader questions about anticipating digital market disruption.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a title=\"tapa-forbes.jpg\" href=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/tapa-forbes.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/tapa-forbes.jpg\" alt=\"tapa-forbes.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"mainphotoarea\"><\/div><div class=\"theme-buttons\"><div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=941\" data-send=\"false\" data-layout=\"box_count\" data-width=\"71\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-font=\"arial\" data-locale=\"en_US\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was first on the cover at Forbes in November 1999, shortly after Jazztel went public. They interviewed me again a few weeks ago &#8211;while I was on vacation in my farm in Menorca&#8212; and the article, focusing on my activities as an entrepreneur and a high-risk, early-stage tech investor, is already online. Just before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202690,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941\/revisions\/202690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}