{"locale":"en","total":322,"page":4,"pages":14,"previous":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/archivo/json?category=business-models&page=3","next":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/archivo/json?category=business-models&page=5","articles":[{"id":13366,"title":"VAST and the $200 Million Bet on Chinese Generative 3D AI","excerpt":"Simon Song was 29 years old when he closed a $200 million round and crossed the billion-dollar valuation threshold. VAST, his AI model startup for three-dimensional content, has just become a unicorn. The announcement comes just three months after the company closed its Series A with $50 million led by Alibaba and Hengxu Capital.","published_at":"2026-06-03T00:03:38.476","category":"startups","author":"Martín Soler","url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/vast-200-million-chinese-generative-3d-ai-unicorn-mpxd2fxj","json_url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/vast-200-million-chinese-generative-3d-ai-unicorn-mpxd2fxj/json"},{"id":13358,"title":"How a Nashville Bookstore Became the Model Nobody Expected","excerpt":"There are industries that don't die all at once. They erode. They cede ground little by little, first at the margins, then at the center, until one day the last player closes and everyone nods as if it had been inevitable. That is what happened to independent bookstores in the United States during the first decade of the century. And it was precisely at that moment, when the narrative of collapse seemed sealed, that Ann Patchett opened Parnassus Books in Nashville.","published_at":"2026-06-02T18:03:05.557","category":"pymes","author":"Camila Rojas","url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/nashville-bookstore-parnassus-books-unexpected-model-mpx07t4x","json_url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/nashville-bookstore-parnassus-books-unexpected-model-mpx07t4x/json"},{"id":13301,"title":"LKQ Corporation Trades as If the Business Is Broken, but Revenue Tells a Different Story","excerpt":"There is a type of stock market discount that deserves attention and another that deserves caution. The difference lies in the origin of the decline. When a stock loses a quarter of its value while revenues rise, the market is not reading the destruction of a business: it is punishing the loss of profitability on every dollar sold.","published_at":"2026-06-01T06:02:21.87","category":"finance","author":"Gabriel Paz","url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/lkq-corporation-trades-as-if-business-is-broken-but-revenue-tells-different-stor-mpuv1m39","json_url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/lkq-corporation-trades-as-if-business-is-broken-but-revenue-tells-different-stor-mpuv1m39/json"},{"id":13264,"title":"Asana Bought Time, Not a Solution","excerpt":"There is a moment when a company stops managing its transition and starts managing its fear. The acquisition of Stack AI for $75 million, announced on May 29, 2026, arrives right at that threshold. Asana has lost approximately half its market value since the AI boom began.","published_at":"2026-05-31T06:02:29.989","category":"business-models","author":"Javier Ocaña","url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/asana-bought-time-not-a-solution-stack-ai-acquisition-mptfllw3","json_url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/asana-bought-time-not-a-solution-stack-ai-acquisition-mptfllw3/json"},{"id":13246,"title":"Ola Electric Rises 93% from Lows, But the Real Question Is What's Sustaining the Recovery","excerpt":"The stock market forgave Ola Electric in a matter of weeks. From its all-time low of 22.25 rupees per share, recorded in March 2026, the Indian electric scooter manufacturer accumulated a 93% recovery in just two months, reaching 42.88 rupees on the National Stock Exchange of India by late May. But there is an inconvenient gap that no stock market rebound can hide: Ola Electric's all-time high was 157.40 rupees per share.","published_at":"2026-05-30T12:02:15.613","category":"strategy","author":"Francisco Torres","url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/ola-electric-rises-93-percent-from-lows-what-sustains-recovery-mpsd0zne","json_url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/ola-electric-rises-93-percent-from-lows-what-sustains-recovery-mpsd0zne/json"},{"id":13226,"title":"How a Fortnite Creator Built a 25-Person Studio Without Leaving the Game","excerpt":"There is a specific moment in Andre Rebelo's trajectory that deserves more attention than the launch of his Fortnite skin. It's not the day Epic Games added him to the Icon Series. It's the moment before, when Rebelo stopped asking himself what content he could produce and started asking what he could build.","published_at":"2026-05-30T00:03:05.032","category":"marketing","author":"Sofía Valenzuela","url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/how-fortnite-creator-built-25-person-studio-without-leaving-game-mprnb9da","json_url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/how-fortnite-creator-built-25-person-studio-without-leaving-game-mprnb9da/json"},{"id":13187,"title":"Spotify Bets on Charging More, Not Growing More","excerpt":"There comes a moment in the life of every digital platform when the game changes completely. You stop obsessing over how many users you have and start asking how much money you can extract from the ones already there. Spotify just announced it has reached that moment, and Bank of America is cheering from the front row.","published_at":"2026-05-29T00:03:02.308","category":"finance","author":"Clara Montes","url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/spotify-bets-on-charging-more-not-growing-more-mpq7v4bx","json_url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/spotify-bets-on-charging-more-not-growing-more-mpq7v4bx/json"},{"id":13170,"title":"Robot Legs for $2,500 and What That Tells the Humanoid Market","excerpt":"Hugging Face has just published the blueprints, wiring, and software to build a pair of humanoid legs for approximately $2,500 in parts. No arms, no torso, no head. Just bipedal 3D-printed legs assembled with off-the-shelf components. The question this opens is not technical. It is structural: when an AI platform decides to lower the entry cost of robotic hardware to the price of a mid-range laptop, it is moving a piece on the board that does not move out of mere generosity.","published_at":"2026-05-28T12:02:43.746","category":"exponential","author":"Martín Soler","url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/robot-legs-2500-dollars-humanoid-market-hugging-face-mppi53q2","json_url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/robot-legs-2500-dollars-humanoid-market-hugging-face-mppi53q2/json"},{"id":13151,"title":"Two Companies With No Employees, No Office, and Valued at Over Half a Million Euros Each","excerpt":"There is one figure that explains almost everything: €585,000 collected in the first business, valued at €900,000, without a single client meeting and without hiring anyone. The second business followed the same pattern. By 2022, its valuation reached €560,000 with €90,000 raised.","published_at":"2026-05-28T00:02:48.27","category":"business-models","author":"Diego Salazar","url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/two-companies-no-employees-no-office-valued-half-million-euros-mposf4b3","json_url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/two-companies-no-employees-no-office-valued-half-million-euros-mposf4b3/json"},{"id":13142,"title":"Repsol Turns Kitchen Waste into 200,000 Tons of Diesel Per Year","excerpt":"There is a logic that for decades seemed immovable in the oil industry: value lay in crude oil, in geology, in whoever controlled the subsoil. Repsol has just proven that this logic has visible cracks. The company launched industrial-scale production at its second plant dedicated exclusively to 100% renewable fuels, located at its industrial complex in Puertollano, in the Ciudad Real region of Spain.","published_at":"2026-05-27T18:02:07.084","category":"sustainability","author":"Gabriel Paz","url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/repsol-kitchen-waste-renewable-diesel-200000-tons-per-year-mpofk6bq","json_url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/repsol-kitchen-waste-renewable-diesel-200000-tons-per-year-mpofk6bq/json"},{"id":13132,"title":"Tata Sons Bets ₹29 Billion Without Proving Market Demand","excerpt":"On May 26, 2026, at Bombay House, the neoclassical building in Mumbai where the Tata Group has made its most important decisions for over a century, the six members of Tata Sons' board of directors met for approximately six hours. There were no public statements upon leaving. What is documented is this: the unlisted companies of the Tata Group accumulated losses of ₹10,905 crore in fiscal year 2025, and internal estimates suggest that figure could climb to ₹29,000 crore as investment accelerates in aviation, digital, and electronics.","published_at":"2026-05-27T12:03:49.946","category":"strategy","author":"Tomás Rivera","url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/tata-sons-bets-29-billion-rupees-without-proving-market-demand-mpo2pe6o","json_url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/tata-sons-bets-29-billion-rupees-without-proving-market-demand-mpo2pe6o/json"},{"id":13115,"title":"When Companies Hire the Influencer Instead of Renting Them","excerpt":"There is one number that changes everything: 919%. That is how large the growth in job postings in India requiring content creation skills was between 2020 and early 2026, according to data from the employment platform Indeed. This is not a marginal variation or an emerging trend. It is a structural reconfiguration of the hiring model in marketing.","published_at":"2026-05-27T00:03:01.007","category":"marketing","author":"Andrés Molina","url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/when-companies-hire-influencer-instead-of-renting-mpncz5cz","json_url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/when-companies-hire-influencer-instead-of-renting-mpncz5cz/json"},{"id":13106,"title":"DNA as Source Code and Why the Model Matters More Than the Model","excerpt":"There is a moment in the history of any scientific field when the language changes before reality does. First, we start talking about something as if it were already true; then, slowly, it is. With programmable biology, we are at that threshold. DNA, for decades an object of reading, is becoming an object of writing.","published_at":"2026-05-26T18:02:06.017","category":"startups","author":"Mateo Vargas","url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/dna-as-source-code-why-the-model-matters-more-than-the-model-mpn04e9a","json_url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/dna-as-source-code-why-the-model-matters-more-than-the-model-mpn04e9a/json"},{"id":13079,"title":"CDP Raises Its Stake in Nexi and Redefines Who Controls Italian Digital Payments","excerpt":"The Italian state did not privatize Nexi only to forget about it. What CDP Equity S.p.A., the investment arm of Cassa Depositi e Prestiti, has just done is a clear signal that Rome has a very defined stance on who controls the country's payments infrastructure — and it is prepared to defend that stance with capital. The board of CDP Equity approved in late May 2026 the possibility of increasing its stake in Nexi S.p.A. to a maximum of 29.9 percent.","published_at":"2026-05-26T00:02:52.785","category":"finance","author":"Francisco Torres","url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/cdp-raises-stake-nexi-redefines-italian-digital-payments-control-mplxjir3","json_url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/cdp-raises-stake-nexi-redefines-italian-digital-payments-control-mplxjir3/json"},{"id":13068,"title":"Codex Is OpenAI's Bet to Prove It Can Make Money","excerpt":"There is a pattern that repeats itself in the history of tech companies looking to open up to capital markets: the moment when the narrative of massive users is no longer enough and they need to show something more concrete. OpenAI is there. And the tool it chose to make that argument is not ChatGPT, but Codex, its software development assistance product, which in the last two months has received updates at a frequency no competitor has matched.","published_at":"2026-05-25T18:01:59.597","category":"innovation","author":"Elena Costa","url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/codex-openai-bet-prove-make-money-mplkogqc","json_url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/codex-openai-bet-prove-make-money-mplkogqc/json"},{"id":13059,"title":"China's Robot Butler Now Has an Address and a Price Tag","excerpt":"China isn't testing whether a robot can mop a factory floor. It's testing whether it can mop your living room floor, make your bed, and fry an egg while you shower. That's exactly what GigaAI, a startup founded in 2025 with backing from Huawei's investment arm, announced in May 2026: the SeeLight S1, a dual-arm wheeled humanoid robot designed specifically for the home environment.","published_at":"2026-05-25T12:02:42.782","category":"exponential","author":"Clara Montes","url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/china-robot-butler-gigaai-seelight-s1-home-humanoid-mpl7ts8c","json_url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/china-robot-butler-gigaai-seelight-s1-home-humanoid-mpl7ts8c/json"},{"id":13039,"title":"When Noise Is Worth Less Than Evidence: The New Game of Indian Founders","excerpt":"For nearly a decade, startup journalism in India operated like a well-oiled machine: a company raised capital, the media published the announcement, that announcement attracted more investors and talent, and the cycle kept spinning. The fuel was abundant and cheap. Between 2015 and 2021, global interest rates were at rock bottom, venture capital flowed into India at record speeds, and the newsrooms covering the ecosystem grew right along with it.","published_at":"2026-05-25T00:03:00.127","category":"business-models","author":"Camila Rojas","url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/when-noise-worth-less-than-evidence-new-game-indian-founders-mpki3gfu","json_url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/when-noise-worth-less-than-evidence-new-game-indian-founders-mpki3gfu/json"},{"id":13019,"title":"When European Factories Become China's Cheapest Asset","excerpt":"There is a pattern that repeats itself when an industry enters forced transition: the assets that once defined the strength of a sector end up being acquired by those who arrived later, with less history and structurally different costs. The European automotive industry is living through that sequence now, not as a metaphor, but as a concrete movement of capital and productive capacity. What The Telegraph headline captures — China taking control of Europe's decaying factories — does not describe just a one-off transaction.","published_at":"2026-05-24T12:02:24.195","category":"strategy","author":"Martín Soler","url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/when-european-factories-become-chinas-cheapest-asset-mpjsdgm8","json_url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/when-european-factories-become-chinas-cheapest-asset-mpjsdgm8/json"},{"id":13010,"title":"Why Tesla Grew from $2 Billion to $20 Billion and Talent Was the Architecture, Not the Fuel","excerpt":"Jon McNeill served as President of Tesla between 2015 and 2018. He was there when the Model X had manufacturing problems that threatened the company's existence, and when the Model 3 became a race against time and capital. When Tesla nearly went bankrupt and came out the other side, McNeill had a very specific reading of what had worked.","published_at":"2026-05-24T06:02:21.161","category":"leadership","author":"Ricardo Mendieta","url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/why-tesla-grew-2-billion-20-billion-talent-architecture-mpjfj2wm","json_url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/why-tesla-grew-2-billion-20-billion-talent-architecture-mpjfj2wm/json"},{"id":13001,"title":"The Creator Economy Doesn't Have a Scale Problem, It Has an Evidence Problem","excerpt":"The figure is tempting: $480 billion by 2027, according to Goldman Sachs. A market that would double in size within four years compared to 2023. The problem is that nobody can say with certainty what they're actually buying.","published_at":"2026-05-24T00:03:01.342","category":"marketing","author":"Diego Salazar","url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/creator-economy-evidence-problem-scale-mpj2nxhx","json_url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/creator-economy-evidence-problem-scale-mpj2nxhx/json"},{"id":12959,"title":"Lenovo's Nearly Doubled AI Revenue Reveals a Silent Redesign With Record-Breaking Figures","excerpt":"March quarter revenues reached $21.6 billion, a 27% year-on-year growth — the highest rate in five years — and net income jumped dramatically to $521 million. The company's Hong Kong shares surged nearly 20% in a single session, becoming the biggest percentage gainer on the Hang Seng index that day. But the number that best explains the market's reaction is not in the margins or PC volumes: it's the fact that AI-related revenues grew 84% in the quarter and accounted for 38% of the group's total revenues.","published_at":"2026-05-22T18:02:35.139","category":"innovation","author":"Ignacio Silva","url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/lenovo-ai-revenue-doubled-record-figures-quarterly-results-mphadaxw","json_url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/lenovo-ai-revenue-doubled-record-figures-quarterly-results-mphadaxw/json"},{"id":12931,"title":"Why Indian Discretionary Consumption Is Punishing Fast Food Chains and Rewarding Jewellery Retailers","excerpt":"India's most comfortable macroeconomic phase in years has just come to an end. Ambit Institutional Equities states it plainly in its latest sector report: FY27 arrives with two simultaneous pressures on discretionary consumption — slower demand and margin compression from crude-linked input inflation. What follows is not merely a portfolio rotation, but a diagnosis of which business models have the structural architecture to withstand that double blow.","published_at":"2026-05-22T00:03:56.633","category":"business-models","author":"Javier Ocaña","url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/indian-discretionary-consumption-fast-food-chains-vs-jewellery-retailers-mpg7sczc","json_url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/indian-discretionary-consumption-fast-food-chains-vs-jewellery-retailers-mpg7sczc/json"},{"id":12921,"title":"Nestlé recycles in Kedah, but what it's building is something else entirely","excerpt":"There's a number Nestlé Malaysia doesn't publicize in its official press release, but it says everything about its real strategy: 15,000 tonnes of solid waste diverted from landfills in a single year. That's not a public relations program. That's collection infrastructure operating at scale, covering 260,000 households across nine cities with a target of 300,000 before the end of 2026.","published_at":"2026-05-21T18:02:39.653","category":"sustainability","author":"Elena Costa","url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/nestle-recycles-kedah-malaysia-waste-collection-infrastructure-mpfuwwss","json_url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/nestle-recycles-kedah-malaysia-waste-collection-infrastructure-mpfuwwss/json"},{"id":12904,"title":"The Mother Who Wrote a Million Notes and What It Cost the Industry","excerpt":"The Mother Who Wrote a Million Notes and What It Cost the Industry There is a moment at which almost every mass-consumer brand makes the same decision: to systematize affection.","published_at":"2026-05-20T12:02:44.027","category":"marketing","author":"Camila Rojas","url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/mother-who-wrote-million-notes-cost-to-industry-mpejrtm4","json_url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/mother-who-wrote-million-notes-cost-to-industry-mpejrtm4/json"}]}