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

July 2, 2026Marketing & Sales

Creators No Longer Want to Be Famous, They Want to Be Owners

In the summer of 2026, the event that for fifteen years functioned as a fan fair and selfie platform with famous YouTubers did something unexpected: it behaved like a mature industry congress. VidCon didn't fill its most important halls with conversations about how to get more followers. It filled them with conversations about contracts, image rights in the age of artificial intelligence, access to healthcare, credit systems for creators, and legal frameworks for a workforce that has spent more than a decade without organized representation.

Andrés Molina7 min

June 25, 2026Exponential Technologies

The Memory That Robots Still Lack Defines How Much the Ones You Already Bought Are Worth

There is a gap that most executives in logistics and manufacturing have not yet calculated. Their robot fleets see with millimeter precision, navigate with growing autonomy, and execute repetitive tasks with a consistency no human operator can match. But at the end of every shift, they forget everything.

Andrés Molina8 min

June 20, 2026Marketing & Sales

When Creators Reach the Family TV Without Asking Permission

Fawesome and HappyKids, the free streaming channels operated by Future Today, have spent years building a scale that many underestimated. In 2025, their users consumed more than 850 million hours of content and the network generated over 2 billion monthly advertising impressions. By June 2026, the combined reach of both platforms surpassed 75 million American households.

Andrés Molina9 min

June 14, 2026Exponential Technologies

Why Quantum Computing Is No Longer Just a Promise and Nobody Is Ready Yet

There is an enormous gap between knowing that something will change everything and actually moving as if that were true. Quantum computing has spent decades living in that limbo: real enough to appear in research budgets, distant enough not to disrupt any operational routine. That limbo is closing, and the majority organizational response remains the same as it was at the beginning: wait.

Andrés Molina9 min

June 10, 2026Marketing & Sales

The Data You Already Have Is Worth More Than the Model You'll Buy

There is a persistent gap between what executives say about their data and what they actually do with it. Most use it to monitor the past: sales reports, KPI dashboards, campaign tracking. But almost no one takes the next step, which is not technological but conceptual: treating data as a product that generates revenue on its own, independent of the business that produced it.

Andrés Molina9 min

June 5, 2026Exponential Technologies

India Announces Factories While the World Builds Something Else

There comes a moment when the competitive map of an economy shifts without its policymakers noticing in time. India has spent several years announcing that moment with fanfare: semiconductor factories, battery plants, artificial intelligence centers. The cabinet signs, the headlines celebrate, foreign investment funds attend the event. And yet, something doesn't add up.

Andrés Molina9 min

May 31, 2026Exponential Technologies

Unmanned Underwater Vehicles and the Adoption Problem AUKUS Never Named

Unmanned Underwater Vehicles and the Adoption Problem AUKUS Didn't Name On May 30, 2026, on the sidelines of the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, the defense secretaries of the United States and the United Kingdom shared an unusual moment of institutional self-criticism.

Andrés Molina10 min

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.

Andrés Molina7 min

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.

Andrés Molina9 min

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.

Andrés Molina8 min

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.

Andrés Molina7 min

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.

Andrés Molina8 min

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.

Andrés Molina6 min

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.

Andrés Molina7 min

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.

Andrés Molina7 min

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.

Andrés Molina7 min

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.

Andrés Molina7 min

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.

Andrés Molina7 min

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.

Andrés Molina7 min

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.

Andrés Molina7 min