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Gabriel Paz

Writes on the future of work, the collaborative economy, and digital transformation, covering how exponential technology redefines the way we work and dismantles corporate dinosaurs.

Articles by Gabriel Paz

Repsol Turns Kitchen Waste into 200,000 Tons of Diesel Per Year
May 27, 2026Sustainability

Repsol Turns Kitchen Waste into 200,000 Tons of Diesel Per Year

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.

Gabriel PazGabriel Paz9 min
The United States Bets $2 Billion on Quantum Computing and Reveals What Kind of Industrial Policy It Is Building
May 22, 2026Exponential Technologies

The United States Bets $2 Billion on Quantum Computing and Reveals What Kind of Industrial Policy It Is Building

On May 21, 2026, the U.S. Department of Commerce formalized what had been hinted at for months in Washington's corridors: the federal government doesn't just want to fund quantum computing — it wants to be a shareholder in it. The decision to commit $2 billion to a group of quantum technology companies, taking equity stakes rather than simply issuing grants, marks a turning point in the logic behind America's long-term technology policy. This is not a check. It is a declaration of industrial architecture.

Gabriel PazGabriel Paz8 min
Millions of Abandoned Wells Could Be Worth More as Assets Than Liabilities
May 18, 2026Sustainability

Millions of Abandoned Wells Could Be Worth More as Assets Than Liabilities

For decades, the oil industry drilled into the American subsurface with a simple logic: extract, sell, abandon. What was left behind is a legacy that is difficult to quantify and nearly impossible to manage: millions of inactive wells scattered across the country, many without an official owner, leaking methane into the atmosphere and contaminants into groundwater. Oklahoma, to cite the most illustrative case, has more than 20,000 of these wells identified.

Gabriel PazGabriel Paz8 min
Quantum Computing Won't Break Tax Laws, It Will Break the Architecture That Supports Them
May 12, 2026Exponential Technologies

Quantum Computing Won't Break Tax Laws, It Will Break the Architecture That Supports Them

The global tax system does not operate on paper. For at least two decades it has run on digital signatures, device certificates, hash chains, and encrypted transmissions to tax authorities. That infrastructure, invisible to most retail executives, is what is technically exposed today to a pressure that comes neither from regulators nor competitors: it comes from a transformation in computing power that could render useless the cryptographic foundations on which the fiscal trust of the entire system rests.

Gabriel PazGabriel Paz9 min
The Iran War Accelerated What Decades of Climate Policy Could Not
May 9, 2026Sustainability

The Iran War Accelerated What Decades of Climate Policy Could Not

On February 28, 2026, the United States and Israel launched military strikes against Iran. In less than a week, oil prices surged 28%. The Strait of Hormuz — through which approximately 20% of the world's oil supply passes — was effectively paralyzed.

Gabriel PazGabriel Paz8 min
Africa Adopted the Addis Ababa Declaration and Exposed a Broken Financing System
May 4, 2026Business Transformation

Africa Adopted the Addis Ababa Declaration and Exposed a Broken Financing System

On May 1, 2026, more than 1,500 participants from 48 countries closed the Twelfth African Regional Forum on Sustainable Development with a document carrying more political than financial weight: the Addis Ababa Declaration on 'Turning the Tide'. Ministers, economists, civil society representatives, and officials from multilateral organizations signed a collective mandate to accelerate the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals and lay the groundwork for COP32, which Ethiopia will host in 2027.

Gabriel PazGabriel Paz9 min
The $250 Million Startup Holding Salesforce Accountable for Building on Sand
April 30, 2026Artificial Intelligence

The $250 Million Startup Holding Salesforce Accountable for Building on Sand

In 1999, Salesforce designed a data model for a world where every commercial move depended on a human opening a screen and typing something. It was a brilliant system for its time: centralizing the record of relationships, deals, and activities in an architecture that any sales force could operate. For more than two decades, that design was the backbone of business-to-business commerce. Today, that same architecture is becoming its greatest vulnerability.

Gabriel PazGabriel Paz8 min
The Silent Collapse of Butterflies and the Cost No One is Accounting For
April 15, 2026Sustainability

The Silent Collapse of Butterflies and the Cost No One is Accounting For

A 22% decrease in butterfly populations over two decades signals a financial alarm that agricultural balance sheets have yet to process.

Gabriel PazGabriel Paz7 min
A Shell Company Acquires an IoT Gem for $150 Million
April 14, 2026Finance

A Shell Company Acquires an IoT Gem for $150 Million

Anemoi, a London-based holding company with negligible income, has signed a deal to acquire Trasna for $150 million in shares. The market reacted by dropping Anemoi's shares by 5.2%.

Gabriel PazGabriel Paz7 min
The Man Who Transformed Water into Competitive Advantage
April 13, 2026Sustainability

The Man Who Transformed Water into Competitive Advantage

Adriano Goldschmied passed away on April 5, 2026. What he left behind was not just a collection or a brand, but a production model that the denim industry took twenty years to fully understand.

Gabriel PazGabriel Paz7 min
The Treasury Takes on $1.7 Trillion in Student Debt and Redefines the State Creditor Rules
April 12, 2026Finance

The Treasury Takes on $1.7 Trillion in Student Debt and Redefines the State Creditor Rules

The White House isn't just 'improving' student loan management; it recognizes that the Education Department should never have operated the fifth largest bank in the U.S.

Gabriel PazGabriel Paz7 min
Sustainability Strategies Fail Not for Lack of Ambition, But Due to Absence of Ownership
April 12, 2026Sustainability

Sustainability Strategies Fail Not for Lack of Ambition, But Due to Absence of Ownership

Nearly all major corporations have published climate goals. Few have someone to implement them on Tuesday morning. This gap will be tested by 2026.

Gabriel PazGabriel Paz7 min
Two Trillion Dollars Without a Safety Net: Private Credit Faces Its First Real Test
April 11, 2026Finance

Two Trillion Dollars Without a Safety Net: Private Credit Faces Its First Real Test

The private credit market grew to $2 trillion in 15 years of benign conditions. Howard Marks warns that underwriting standards have weakened under competitive pressure, and the correction has already begun.

Gabriel PazGabriel Paz7 min
Singapore Turns Up the Heat and Sends a Bill to the World
April 10, 2026Sustainability

Singapore Turns Up the Heat and Sends a Bill to the World

When a government mandates the thermostat to be set at 25°C, it admits its energy model was never sustainable. The Middle Eastern crisis has accelerated this reality.

Gabriel PazGabriel Paz7 min
Australia Buys Time with Public Funds as Strait of Hormuz Reshapes Global Energy Map
April 9, 2026Finance

Australia Buys Time with Public Funds as Strait of Hormuz Reshapes Global Energy Map

When a government relies on its export credit agency to secure fuel imports, it's acknowledging a critical failure in its energy architecture that no market can solve alone.

Gabriel PazGabriel Paz7 min
$200 Million Bet on Domestic Lithium Processing
April 8, 2026Sustainability

$200 Million Bet on Domestic Lithium Processing

As the world debates supply chain sovereignty, an alliance in Ontario shows private capital has made its choice. The question is not if Canada can process its lithium, but if it can do so before demand peaks.

Gabriel PazGabriel Paz7 min
Ackman Bets $64 Billion That Wall Street is Worth More Than Amsterdam
April 8, 2026Finance

Ackman Bets $64 Billion That Wall Street is Worth More Than Amsterdam

Ackman’s offer for Universal Music Group is a harsh diagnosis on listing geography devaluing assets, revealing who’s willing to remedy this issue.

Gabriel PazGabriel Paz7 min
Cutting Science Funding to Finance Military: A Losing Bet
April 7, 2026Sustainability

Cutting Science Funding to Finance Military: A Losing Bet

Washington proposes dismantling federal scientific institutions that support trillion-dollar industries. The risk is not ideological: it is arithmetic.

Gabriel PazGabriel Paz7 min
SpaceX's IPO and the Architecture of an Unprecedented Financial Empire
April 6, 2026Finance

SpaceX's IPO and the Architecture of an Unprecedented Financial Empire

Elon Musk is not selling shares of SpaceX; he is establishing a foundation of financial loyalty that renders the classic IPO model obsolete.

Gabriel PazGabriel Paz7 min
The Quantum Battery Breaks the Logic of Everything We Know About Energy
April 5, 2026Exponential Technologies

The Quantum Battery Breaks the Logic of Everything We Know About Energy

A prototype of a quantum battery has demonstrated that 20th-century physics no longer dictates the rules of energy storage. What comes next redefines entire industries' cost architecture.

Gabriel PazGabriel Paz7 min