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Andrés Molina

Writes on consumer psychology, cognitive biases, and behavioral economics, covering the invisible forces behind every purchase decision and why humans are not rational when consuming.

Articles by Andrés Molina

When Companies Hire the Influencer Instead of Renting Them
May 27, 2026Marketing & Sales

When Companies Hire the Influencer Instead of Renting Them

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.

AI Agents Without Governance Are Operating Right Now Inside Your Company
May 22, 2026Artificial Intelligence

AI Agents Without Governance Are Operating Right Now Inside Your Company

The conversation about artificial intelligence in large enterprises follows a comfortable script: evaluating platforms, approving budgets, designing pilots. Meanwhile, inside CRM systems, customer service operations, and financial approval workflows, AI agents are making decisions without anyone knowing exactly how many there are, what data they touch, or what they do when no one is watching. That is the uncomfortable fact the industry has been elegantly avoiding for months.

Vaseline Turned Internet Hacks Into Products That Sold Out in Minutes
May 17, 2026Marketing & Sales

Vaseline Turned Internet Hacks Into Products That Sold Out in Minutes

Vaseline is 155 years old. It was born from a chemist who watched oil workers rub a jelly-like substance on their wounds. What is happening now inside Unilever, Vaseline's parent company, deserves attention precisely because it inverts that logic: it is letting the spontaneous behaviors of internet communities determine what product to manufacture next.

Why Corporate AI Agents Fail Before They Are Hacked
May 12, 2026Artificial Intelligence

Why Corporate AI Agents Fail Before They Are Hacked

The conversation around enterprise artificial intelligence security tends to converge on the same points: poorly trained models, hallucinations, algorithmic bias. While technical teams debate model architecture, sensitive data is already traveling to external servers, agents are operating with excessive privileges, and no one has updated identity management frameworks to include entities that make decisions without any human overseeing them in real time. The gap is not technical in origin. It is behavioral and organizational.

Made By Us Studios Bets on a Creator Economy That No Longer Needs Middlemen
May 8, 2026Marketing & Sales

Made By Us Studios Bets on a Creator Economy That No Longer Needs Middlemen

Made By All — a digital management firm with access to a creator network boasting over 1.5 billion combined followers — announced the launch of Made By Us Studios, a production studio designed to operate within the creator economy with Hollywood-level infrastructure. It named Tanya Cohen, former partner at Range Media Partners and former WME agent — the youngest partner in the agency's history — as co-CEO. The move is not merely a corporate rebrand: it is a bold statement about how the next ten years of entertainment will be organized.

Robots That Listen But Don't Understand Where They Are
May 3, 2026Exponential Technologies

Robots That Listen But Don't Understand Where They Are

The most honest challenge in robotics today is not technical. It is psychological, and not in the sense usually used to talk about humans who fear machines, but the other way around: the most sophisticated robotic systems on the planet keep failing at something a three-year-old child does effortlessly. They hear an instruction, they see the space, and yet they do not know how to connect both things to move with purpose.

One Hundred Billion Events and the Fear Nobody Wants to Name
April 23, 2026Innovation & Disruption

One Hundred Billion Events and the Fear Nobody Wants to Name

There is a number worth pausing to process: more than 100 billion data events per day. That is what Striim moves through its integration pipelines, connecting systems like Oracle, PostgreSQL, Salesforce or Kafka with cloud platforms like Google Cloud Spanner, with latency measured in fractions of a second. The technical announcement is solid. But what interests me is not in the press release.

The Robot That Runs Faster Than Kiplimo and What It Reveals About Human Fear
April 20, 2026Innovation & Disruption

The Robot That Runs Faster Than Kiplimo and What It Reveals About Human Fear

An Honor robot completed a half marathon in 50 minutes, beating the world human record. The question nobody is asking isn't whether robots can run faster, but why that fact paralyzes us more than it mobilizes us.

PayPal Transforms Creative Moments into Purchase Opportunities
April 15, 2026Marketing & Sales

PayPal Transforms Creative Moments into Purchase Opportunities

The integration of PayPal within Canva eliminates the gap between design and payment, revolutionizing the user experience and boosting sales.

Nuclear Energy Goes to Space While Fear Remains on Earth
April 15, 2026Exponential Technologies

Nuclear Energy Goes to Space While Fear Remains on Earth

NASA and the Department of Energy invest $3 billion in a lunar reactor. The real challenge is not engineering, but the psychology of those who must adopt it.

Golden Goose and the Art of Selling Fear on a Blank Canvas
April 14, 2026Marketing & Sales

Golden Goose and the Art of Selling Fear on a Blank Canvas

Golden Goose did not launch a sneaker customization program. They launched a psychological architecture to alleviate the biggest hurdle of participatory luxury: the customer's fear of creating something their own that may not turn out well.

Porsche's Self-Appearance Stripes Reveal What Engineers Overlook
April 13, 2026Exponential Technologies

Porsche's Self-Appearance Stripes Reveal What Engineers Overlook

Porsche patented racing stripes that emerge in Sport mode. The technology works, but there's a strategic error behind it.

The Return of the Model 2 Reveals What Tesla Doesn't Want to Admit About Its Customers
April 12, 2026Marketing & Sales

The Return of the Model 2 Reveals What Tesla Doesn't Want to Admit About Its Customers

Tesla canceled its $25,000 car due to margin threats. It's reviving it because the market is signaling that price isn't the only barrier, but it's the most honest one.

The Solar-Storing Molecule Faces Its Biggest Challenge: Consumer Mindset
April 11, 2026Exponential Technologies

The Solar-Storing Molecule Faces Its Biggest Challenge: Consumer Mindset

A California lab has surpassed lithium batteries in energy density using DNA-inspired chemistry. The challenge isn't physics; it's psychology.

Tesla Loses Chinese Buyers While Factories Keep Operating
April 10, 2026Marketing & Sales

Tesla Loses Chinese Buyers While Factories Keep Operating

Tesla’s wholesale figures in China looked promising until real consumer data revealed a troubling trend that no amount of exports can resolve.

The Smallest Chip in Space History Could Redefine Healthcare Sales
April 10, 2026Exponential Technologies

The Smallest Chip in Space History Could Redefine Healthcare Sales

NASA sends human cells to lunar orbit to study radiation effects. But what about the patient's mind when medicine becomes personalized?

Streamers Don’t Want Podcasts, They Want Buyers Who Stay
April 9, 2026Marketing & Sales

Streamers Don’t Want Podcasts, They Want Buyers Who Stay

Netflix's 2% churn rate highlights a need for engagement strategies that retain subscribers, urging platforms to explore podcasts’ emotional impact.

The Satellite That Thinks for Itself and What It Tells Its Sales Team
April 8, 2026Exponential Technologies

The Satellite That Thinks for Itself and What It Tells Its Sales Team

Planet Labs has processed intelligence images in orbit without transmitting raw data to the ground. The technical feat is impressive, but the behavioral insight is even more valuable.

SpaceX's IPO and the Psychology of Selling the Cosmos to Ordinary Citizens
April 7, 2026Marketing & Sales

SpaceX's IPO and the Psychology of Selling the Cosmos to Ordinary Citizens

SpaceX isn't just reshaping the mechanics of an IPO; it's changing the mental map of the retail investor. Understanding why that’s more challenging than building a reusable rocket is the analysis most media outlets are overlooking.

Jamie Dimon Identifies Three Fears No CEO Wants to Admit
April 6, 2026Business Transformation

Jamie Dimon Identifies Three Fears No CEO Wants to Admit

Dimon's annual letter is not merely a risk report; it's a map of psychological frictions paralyzing corporate leaders in a time of critical decision-making.