<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Privacy Cloud - Chapter III]]></title><description><![CDATA[Thoughts and solutions driving the next phase of our journey.]]></description><link>https://www.privacycloud.com</link><image><url>https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ha3r!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F39f33110-d797-4f5f-9a88-5bdc2d4acc85_1080x1080.png</url><title>Privacy Cloud - Chapter III</title><link>https://www.privacycloud.com</link></image><generator>Substack</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:07:59 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.privacycloud.com/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><copyright><![CDATA[Sergio Maldonado]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><webMaster><![CDATA[privacycloud@substack.com]]></webMaster><itunes:owner><itunes:email><![CDATA[privacycloud@substack.com]]></itunes:email><itunes:name><![CDATA[Sergio Maldonado]]></itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author><![CDATA[Sergio Maldonado]]></itunes:author><googleplay:owner><![CDATA[privacycloud@substack.com]]></googleplay:owner><googleplay:email><![CDATA[privacycloud@substack.com]]></googleplay:email><googleplay:author><![CDATA[Sergio Maldonado]]></googleplay:author><itunes:block><![CDATA[Yes]]></itunes:block><item><title><![CDATA[How we tried to fix advertising, ecommerce, and media by putting people in control of their data]]></title><description><![CDATA[A retrospective of Privacy Cloud's original adventure (Chapter I)]]></description><link>https://www.privacycloud.com/p/how-we-tried-to-fix-advertising-ecommerce</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.privacycloud.com/p/how-we-tried-to-fix-advertising-ecommerce</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sergio Maldonado]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2025 15:44:23 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7KRw!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F81392e11-c5ed-487b-89db-61ec097cee6f_1400x1050.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>(<em>Note: This was originally written at the end of 2022 and published on <a href="https://medium.com/privacycloud/how-we-tried-to-fix-advertising-ecommerce-and-media-by-putting-people-in-control-of-their-data-f05bbd10b4d8">Medium</a>.</em>)</p><p>Back in 2017 I started putting together a plan for what I believed would be the future of marketing, eCommerce and personal agency. In a way, it was just a natural conclusion to my own 10-year journey attempting to bring some science to marketing efforts and advertising spend; but I was also influenced by the arrival of the GDPR with the many debates that preceded its approval, in 2016, by 28 EU Member States.</p><p>Besides plenty of reading, I had been shaping my ideas through my own talks and articles, including this <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/cmos-case-against-marketing-attribution-sergio-maldonado/">chant against marketing attribution</a>, an analysis on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-true-customer-centricity-eventually-reshape-sergio-maldonado/">the impact of True Customer Centricity on the Marketing Technology stack</a>, and previous pieces on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/revenge-silos-how-privacy-compliance-cutting-customer-maldonado/">how privacy would disrupt &#8220;customer journeys&#8221;</a>, and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-digital-data-disrupts-business-intelligence-sergio-maldonado/">how &#8220;the what&#8221; would kill &#8220;the why&#8221;</a> as analytics professionals struggled with the flood of unstructured data.</p><p>A year later, while still closing the sale of our seven-year-old company (a Software as a Service provider in the Marketing Data Analytics space), a core group of long-time colleagues joined me in the new adventure. PrivacyCloud was born as an umbrella &#8220;Privacy-First Cloud&#8221; that would give shelter to various pieces of software in a new Customer-centric stack. BBVA (one of Europe&#8217;s largest banks) became a partner and <a href="https://www.crowdfundinsider.com/2019/10/152902-bbva-announces-investment-in-spanish-fintech-startup-privacycloud/">lead investor</a> a few months later*, with <strong>WeRule</strong>, our first <em>C2B</em> app, seeing the light right after<em>.</em> Prototypes for what we called a <em>Customer Data Hub</em>, a <em>Zero-Party Data Activation Studio</em>, and a <em>PCloudID</em> (connecting pieces on the advertiser/retailer and publisher sides) eventually followed.</p><p>Things couldn&#8217;t get more exciting.</p><p>Not only was individual empowerment a beautiful goal to pursue. It seemed like the three highly-disconnected chapters in my professional life (as an eCommerce and &#8220;Cyberspace&#8221; lawyer struggling to break through a still nascent discipline in the early 2000s, a marketing and data analytics entrepreneur a few years later, and a SaaS founder in the mid 2010s) were about to combine into the one business plan that brought them all together. PrivacyCloud was about law, marketing, data, and technology.</p><p>But, as our core value proposition, WeRule was much more than that: A proof that everybody would be better off with <strong>individuals in full control of their interests, preferences, and needs</strong> &#8212; as well as of the manner in which their chosen brands would be able to leverage user-controlled data (true <a href="https://medium.com/privacycloud/on-zero-party-data-and-the-dangers-of-consent-based-marketing-a05ffee030de">Zero-Party Data</a>) for the benefit of both parties.</p><p>Nearly five years later, and half way through what we initially defined as a 10-year journey, WeRule, NODO (its successor as a Private Shopping Cloud of sorts) and the B2B building blocks that plugged into them lie on the ground as brave heroes on a battlefield. Along the way came and went various pivots and exploratory features (a cross-brand loyalty card, a subscription bundle, a personal shopper&#8230; a web3 wallet!). Here&#8217;s a summary of our initial hypothesis and the learnings derived from what I still believe was worth the effort:</p><h2><strong>1. The hypothesis</strong></h2><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7KRw!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F81392e11-c5ed-487b-89db-61ec097cee6f_1400x1050.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7KRw!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F81392e11-c5ed-487b-89db-61ec097cee6f_1400x1050.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7KRw!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F81392e11-c5ed-487b-89db-61ec097cee6f_1400x1050.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7KRw!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F81392e11-c5ed-487b-89db-61ec097cee6f_1400x1050.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7KRw!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F81392e11-c5ed-487b-89db-61ec097cee6f_1400x1050.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7KRw!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F81392e11-c5ed-487b-89db-61ec097cee6f_1400x1050.jpeg" width="1400" height="1050" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/81392e11-c5ed-487b-89db-61ec097cee6f_1400x1050.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1050,&quot;width&quot;:1400,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7KRw!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F81392e11-c5ed-487b-89db-61ec097cee6f_1400x1050.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7KRw!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F81392e11-c5ed-487b-89db-61ec097cee6f_1400x1050.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7KRw!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F81392e11-c5ed-487b-89db-61ec097cee6f_1400x1050.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7KRw!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F81392e11-c5ed-487b-89db-61ec097cee6f_1400x1050.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>I will start by simply quoting four sets of bullet points in my original &#8220;Full Vision&#8221;. Feel free to jump to the next section if bored or eager to get to the thick of it.</p><h3><em><strong>A. THE CHALLENGE: A BRAND NEW MARKETING CHANNEL</strong></em></h3><p><em>We are placing a solid bet against the status quo. Primarily:</em></p><ul><li><p><em>The same accepted fact of customer centricity, and the march towards a demand-led world, have a maximum exponent in individuals being in full control over their personal information</em></p></li><li><p><em>Social alarm about creepy remarketing and Social Media advertising practices, and the need for enhanced privacy are growing at an unprecedented rate</em></p></li><li><p><em>Not even under pre-GDPR conditions had the promise of a &#8220;single view of the customer&#8221; as a precondition to attribution and marketing ROI ever been delivered, despite immense effort and multi-million dollar investments on performance marketing at the expense of brand safety and consumer trust</em></p></li><li><p><em>The scenario is now even worse. The GDPR has put into question the ability of media businesses and a myriad of data and ad inventory brokers to comply with stricter transparency and consent requirements, resulting in Google and Facebook (able to leverage a direct, consented relationship with end users) commanding an even greater grip on global advertising budgets &#8212; a grip that now extends to the metrics originally meant to audit such investments.</em></p></li></ul><p><em>In essence, we are facing a once-in-a-decade perfect storm, with stark regulatory changes coinciding in time with widespread banner blindness, 30% of Internet users relying on ad blockers, all major browsers blocking 3rd party cookies or fingerprinting techniques at various levels, and the absence of reliable cross-platform performance metrics. We believe it is time to move beyond digital marketing as we know it.</em></p><h3><em><strong>B. THE LOW HANGING FRUIT OF PRIVACY BY DESIGN</strong></em></h3><ul><li><p><em>People are taking control over &#8220;their&#8221; data. This opens entirely new avenues for the enjoyment of content, entertainment, shopping, or social experiences</em></p></li><li><p><em>Brands are presented with a unique opportunity to build deeper, trusted, permission-based, one-to-one relationships with their audiences and customers. These relationships are built on reliable metrics, as it is individuals who measure or expose themselves out of their own accord</em></p></li><li><p><em>Retail banking and payment service providers find themselves in an unprecedented position, as trusted intermediaries in a demand-led world, able to assist consumers in their attempt to better shape the value proposition presented by their suppliers</em></p></li><li><p><em>Media firms are back in the driving seat of information and entertainment experiences, as permission-based environments favor content bundles (a single entry/consent point) over ad inventory pools.</em></p></li></ul><h3><strong>C. THE PROMISE</strong></h3><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4gsI!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4748702d-6408-4511-84d6-0c2a4cfb3039_1400x1049.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4gsI!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4748702d-6408-4511-84d6-0c2a4cfb3039_1400x1049.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4gsI!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4748702d-6408-4511-84d6-0c2a4cfb3039_1400x1049.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4gsI!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4748702d-6408-4511-84d6-0c2a4cfb3039_1400x1049.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4gsI!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4748702d-6408-4511-84d6-0c2a4cfb3039_1400x1049.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4gsI!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4748702d-6408-4511-84d6-0c2a4cfb3039_1400x1049.jpeg" width="1400" height="1049" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/4748702d-6408-4511-84d6-0c2a4cfb3039_1400x1049.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1049,&quot;width&quot;:1400,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4gsI!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4748702d-6408-4511-84d6-0c2a4cfb3039_1400x1049.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4gsI!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4748702d-6408-4511-84d6-0c2a4cfb3039_1400x1049.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4gsI!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4748702d-6408-4511-84d6-0c2a4cfb3039_1400x1049.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4gsI!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4748702d-6408-4511-84d6-0c2a4cfb3039_1400x1049.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><ol><li><p><em>For <strong>individuals</strong>: Full agency. A personal data broker that becomes an identity, preferences, rewards, self-measurement, and discovery layer.</em></p></li><li><p><em>For <strong>marketers</strong>: A fully compliant demand generation/discovery channel, able to leverage people-driven, permission-based relationships while their existing or future SaaS stack falls in line with a similar level of compliance.</em></p></li><li><p><em>For <strong>publishers and creators</strong>: A new means of monetization, as an alternative to the inefficient and legally-challenged AdTech ecosystem or a saturated market for subscriptions.</em></p></li></ol><h3><em><strong>D. THE CONSEQUENCES</strong></em></h3><ul><li><p><em>Personalized experiences, where appreciated, are fully democratized across the wider spectrum of media, entertainment, financial, or shopping services.</em></p></li><li><p><em>Brands embrace an existing framework that conforms to Privacy by Design principles, thus doing away with painful adjustments to their current practices. Even more crucial: businesses are able to leverage a true people-driven marketing platform that feeds directly on richer, more trustworthy, consumer-controlled information.</em></p></li><li><p><em>Media find an unexpected lifeline, as their output ceases to compete for advertising dollars in a pool of commoditized content pieces (or subscription dollars in an ocean of alternatives, once deprived of control over distribution), differentiating themselves instead on the basis of their ability to attract individuals willing to trade &#8220;ads+tracking&#8221;-driven experiences for a clean one-to-one exchange with clearly exposed, sponsoring brands in a post-advertising world.</em></p></li><li><p><em>Individuals are able to know who gets to &#8220;read&#8221;or maintain a copy of specific pieces of their personal profile at any point in time, being able to exercise their newly granted rights. Furthermore, they enter a future in which demand for goods and services can be exposed to brands with which individuals have chosen to communicate, thus opening themselves to bids for their satisfaction.</em></p></li></ul><p><em>In other words, WeRule will ultimately become an awareness, discovery, intent, and experience platform. Full adoption will also leave the door open to becoming the entry point to every individual&#8217;s social graph.</em></p><p>I tried to illustrate all of the above through some basic storytelling in a 2018 blog post (<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/four-people-walk-bar-sergio-maldonado/">The Bar</a>).</p><h2><strong>2. The Flywheel</strong></h2><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!S2Dq!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7ae34fb3-1e3f-4e3f-8104-32b7e57c4aac_1400x788.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!S2Dq!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7ae34fb3-1e3f-4e3f-8104-32b7e57c4aac_1400x788.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!S2Dq!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7ae34fb3-1e3f-4e3f-8104-32b7e57c4aac_1400x788.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!S2Dq!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7ae34fb3-1e3f-4e3f-8104-32b7e57c4aac_1400x788.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!S2Dq!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7ae34fb3-1e3f-4e3f-8104-32b7e57c4aac_1400x788.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!S2Dq!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7ae34fb3-1e3f-4e3f-8104-32b7e57c4aac_1400x788.png" width="1400" height="788" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/7ae34fb3-1e3f-4e3f-8104-32b7e57c4aac_1400x788.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:788,&quot;width&quot;:1400,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!S2Dq!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7ae34fb3-1e3f-4e3f-8104-32b7e57c4aac_1400x788.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!S2Dq!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7ae34fb3-1e3f-4e3f-8104-32b7e57c4aac_1400x788.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!S2Dq!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7ae34fb3-1e3f-4e3f-8104-32b7e57c4aac_1400x788.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!S2Dq!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7ae34fb3-1e3f-4e3f-8104-32b7e57c4aac_1400x788.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h3><strong>A. Breaking the status quo</strong></h3><p>Our value-proposition rested on getting people to take control of &#8220;their&#8221; data in a way that brands or retailers would be able to leverage a common instance of an individual&#8217;s set of preferences and needs (a true single customer view which only happens once, on the customer&#8217;s side).</p><p>For this to happen, we looked at breaking the incentives, as well as the ethical and legal grounds, that brands currently have to do the opposite (as many &#8220;single customer views&#8221; as brands or retailers a consumer happens to bump into). If we reached a point, either as a result of consumer expectations, or as a consequence of the new regulatory framework, in which it became <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/death-customer-journey-hands-centricity-sergio-maldonado/">plain impossible</a> to have an actionable understanding of each current or potential customer, brands would be more focused on providing a sort of <em>read/write</em> version of their own offering, in a way that customers could plug their own interests and needs in order to obtain personalized content or relevant offers.</p><p>But people-based marketing was not driven by the data collected on each brand&#8217;s digital properties, but rather by online advertising. This meant two separate things: walled gardens creating their own version of each registered user; and the open ecosystem (digital media, publishers as a whole) sharing bits and pieces about their visitors. The first faced an unfair competition challenge. The latter faced a <a href="https://medium.com/privacycloud/the-future-of-consent-pop-ups-and-programmatic-advertising-in-a-privacy-first-world-bdb947989ab">privacy compliance</a> challenge.</p><p>In sort: advertisers were buying media <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/problem-ad-supported-internet-demand-led-world-sergio-maldonado/">insofar as such media provided relevant data</a>. Publishers were keen on collecting as much data as possible, for the open market granted a premium on cookie-powered inventory. All the while, people wanted free content and services.</p><p>Two shortcuts, particularly in legal and ethical terms, had already been explored:</p><ul><li><p>Replacing the content value proposition altogether (news, information, entertainment, or social media) by <strong>offering a direct swap of personal data for money</strong>.</p></li><li><p><strong>Keeping creators and journalists in the equation</strong> by expressly offering quality content at no cost in exchange for personal data and self-declared preferences (via surveys), with the understanding that such data would be passed along to advertisers and other brokers.</p></li></ul><p>Multiple versions of the former saw the light in 2018. It suddenly became fashionable to tell consumers that their data was worth millions, and that Google or Facebook had been ripping them off for years. The proponents of so-called <a href="https://medium.com/privacycloud/mydata-business-models-e3c26c14367f">Personal Data Marketplaces</a> would give people their data&#8217;s worth (in money or crypto) by selling it over themselves. Never mind that data, like the air we breath, cannot really be owned (even though a mere collection of non-personal records may enjoy copyright protection). Or that not only is data non-rival, but it could even prove anti-rival (gaining in value as more people make the most of it &#8212; just as it often affects many individuals outside the sphere of control of a particular person). Or that <strong><a href="https://medium.com/privacycloud/the-fight-for-privacy-transparency-and-control-vs-ownership-and-value-df9b6cdeb482">putting a price tag on a fundamental right</a> would defeat its purpose</strong>. Or that no contract could incorporate a waiver of rights of withdrawal (of consent) or erasure and expect to survive legal scrutiny. Or that individual data points (other than common personal traits or contact information) are <a href="https://medium.com/privacycloud/my-data-universe-agency-and-control-beyond-possession-and-comprehension-2dd3bd8a24c4">hardly ever predefined</a> or carried around by the individuals they pertain to, but rather <strong>created through every new digital interaction</strong> and mostly shaped by the artefacts or digital products that businesses choose to deploy in the marketplace.</p><p>The latter formula was not too different from the logic of digital advertising, particularly in the face of <em>cookie walls</em> (&#8220;consent or pay&#8221;) quickly spreading across France and Germany. Definitely not what we had in mind.</p><p>(I did my best to articulate the different incentives, grounds, and implications of all of these &#8220;<a href="https://medium.com/privacycloud/mydata-business-models-e3c26c14367f">MyData Business Models</a>&#8221; at some point in 2019.)</p><p>We chose instead to provide a means for people to &#8220;connect&#8221; with brands while exposing preferences or interests to such brands via their individual agent/assistant. These connections were initially direct, and eventually brokered and anonymized/aggregated by our own platform, forcing brands and retailers to rely on a very limited range of activation channels (thus sacrificing convenience and adoption on the B2B side to prevent privacy violations once data found its way into the internal systems of each independent controller).</p><p>To incentivize these connections, we granted free access to online content or subscriptions, eventually paid for by brands able to leverage the resulting data sets in order to fine-tune their specific offerings or services on the fly, in a privacy-preserving manner. Additionally, we integrated tools for each individual to better understand her &#8220;digital self&#8221; by learning from the currently available properties/traits in third-party apps installed on the same device, keeping certain items aside for quick access and convenience.</p><p>In other words, advertisers would save money by avoiding the <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-fraud-tech-taxes-brand-risk-useless-metrics-mark-end-maldonado">many inefficiencies in the Digital Marketing ecosystem</a> and divert such savings towards direct addressability of relevant potential customers enticed to accept relevant proposals in exchange for free access to a range of enjoyable ad-free, tracker-free, and cookie-banner-free quality media offerings.</p><p>The illustration below shows the initial user journey of the WeRule app:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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The Apple App Store roadblock</strong></h3><p>It did not take long for us to hit the most impenetrable wall when it comes to launching a consumer product in our day and age: Apple&#8217;s capricious dictatorship over the iOS App Store. The company&#8217;s <em>reviewers</em> determined that:</p><ul><li><p>WeRule was basically an advertising app with no intrinsic value. Never mind the system that allowed people to select brands of their choosing and &#8220;connect&#8221; with them. Or the manner in which it scanned for permissions and requests placed by social media or gaming apps, alongside other individual privacy control tools.</p></li><li><p>Most strikingly, WeRule was &#8220;not respecting&#8221; people&#8217;s privacy by allowing users to connect their accounts in third-party services or answer certain questions which were not related to the service being provided -these would unlock specific brand connections on the basis of available variables or levers within each brand profile. (All the while, Apple would collect unique identifiers for every one its users across multiple apps, without notice or consent, in order to sell its own targeted ads, eventually <a href="https://www.cnil.fr/en/advertising-id-apple-distribution-international-fined-8-million-euros">receiving a fine</a> at the hands of France&#8217;s CNIL.)</p></li></ul><p>In other words, the status quo (Facebook, Google, the programmatic advertising ecosystem, and the wildest data brokers) had in Apple their most fervent protector &#8212; or so they did until iOS 14.6 came along. And there was nothing we could do about it, other than speculate over the years it would take for competition authorities to intervene (they <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_21_2061">eventually</a> did, and followed it up with specific rules in the <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/25/22996248/apple-sideloading-apps-store-third-party-eu-dma-requirement">EU Digital Markets Act</a>).</p><p>After a few attempts at obtaining approval, we were back on the drawing board, eventually releasing a highly decaffeinated version that, despite gaining significant traction in our local Spanish market, resulted in widespread disappointment.</p><h3><strong>C. NODO</strong></h3><p>With <em>Decaf WeRule</em>&#8217;s expectations going sideways at all levels (not least on the part of individuals, as the wrong message kept spreading around, in the wake of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Analytica">Cambridge Analytica</a>, that people&#8217;s data was up for sale and worth serious money), we decided to replace it with a new solution that would integrate bundled subscriptions or sponsored media. NODO would also pack so many valuable features that, despite an absence of in-app purchases or other means for Apple to get its required 30% cut, app reviewers could not reject it. To cap it all, offers (&#8220;ads&#8221;) would happen outside of the app.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OFM4!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4ac076f1-f1e8-453f-8b44-d79b0f78cdd3_1400x733.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OFM4!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4ac076f1-f1e8-453f-8b44-d79b0f78cdd3_1400x733.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OFM4!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4ac076f1-f1e8-453f-8b44-d79b0f78cdd3_1400x733.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OFM4!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4ac076f1-f1e8-453f-8b44-d79b0f78cdd3_1400x733.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OFM4!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4ac076f1-f1e8-453f-8b44-d79b0f78cdd3_1400x733.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OFM4!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4ac076f1-f1e8-453f-8b44-d79b0f78cdd3_1400x733.png" width="1400" height="733" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/4ac076f1-f1e8-453f-8b44-d79b0f78cdd3_1400x733.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:733,&quot;width&quot;:1400,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OFM4!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4ac076f1-f1e8-453f-8b44-d79b0f78cdd3_1400x733.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OFM4!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4ac076f1-f1e8-453f-8b44-d79b0f78cdd3_1400x733.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OFM4!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4ac076f1-f1e8-453f-8b44-d79b0f78cdd3_1400x733.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OFM4!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4ac076f1-f1e8-453f-8b44-d79b0f78cdd3_1400x733.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Second time unlucky.</p><p>Alas, the product was again rejected. We did suspect by then, anyhow, that only through open standards and protocols (including, potentially, crypto) would we be able to cut through the system. While end users and advertisers, in search of volume and convenience respectively, were definitely biased towards walled gardens (Instagram, WhatsApp, YouTube, iOS&#8230;), we were forced to resort to the four standing guardians of today&#8217;s internet: web apps, email, RSS, and browser extensions.</p><p>We certainly explored all four in the course of the months and years that followed (including the release of supporting building blocks as <a href="https://medium.com/privacycloud/taking-the-fight-against-consent-banners-to-the-next-level-f9f26f254189">browser extensions</a> and two separate podcasting channels), but NODO would have to sit on top of good-old email protocols, primarily, and web apps, secondarily, if we assumed that there simply was too much friction in a &#8220;pull&#8221; environment far detached from its most tangible benefits.</p><h3><strong>D. Ok, Email</strong></h3><p>Along with the new changes, we had decided to test a new hypothesis for the attraction of early adopters, or true believers that would eventually pull from the rest of the market. Unlike WeRule, NODO would primarily rely on quality media to attract its members. Only those able to appreciate an ad-free, tracker-free news or entertainment experience would be allowed to connect with a limited range of advertisers or rely on our own curation for the selection of truly unique Direct To Consumer brands.</p><p>Furthermore, onboarding would happen directly on the publishers&#8217; end, guaranteeing &#8220;sponsored&#8221; subscriptions in exchanged for an individual&#8217;s <em>postponed attention</em> in the form of a weekly email containing a single value proposition. Furthermore, <strong>such email would be </strong><em><strong>conversational</strong></em><strong>, incorporating feedback options that allowed Activation Studio</strong> (our Zero-Party Data activation platform) <strong>to ascertain the most relevant offer for each individual as time went by</strong>.</p><p>In parallel, the NODO web app allowed individuals to review their history of <em>learnings</em>, declared interests and previously received offers.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9Itr!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fced2bef0-db82-484b-b909-6a3b828b077f_1200x628.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" 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PCloudID and the Trusted Media Program</strong></h3><p>In a way, publishers were the low-hanging fruit of the digital marketing ecosystem. While platforms thrived on the back of first-party data, great precision, and massive volumes, the open ad market relied on a messy web of interconnected players to emulate similar levels of precision in terms of audience targeting or performance measurement. Worst of all, ad inventory was expensive to produce for providers of quality journalism or creative value, and yet they were forced to compete against unlimited free (user-generated) inventory on walled gardens by the rules that only favored the latter (with better profiling commanding higher margins), eventually eroding the differential value of the former (brand safety, quality audiences, common brand experiences, etc.).</p><p>In other words, short-term revenue (eventually proven to be <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-google-monopolizing-digital-advertising-technologies">artificially inflated by Google in order to dominate the seller-side market</a>) was killing traditional publishers. Finding a viable formula for sponsored subscriptions could provide a much needed lifeline, perhaps even taking them off the hook of RTB (Real-Time Bidding) addiction.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!I1wD!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F64c43ce2-c19e-467f-bac3-aa80d8e36e37_1200x500.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!I1wD!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F64c43ce2-c19e-467f-bac3-aa80d8e36e37_1200x500.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!I1wD!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F64c43ce2-c19e-467f-bac3-aa80d8e36e37_1200x500.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!I1wD!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F64c43ce2-c19e-467f-bac3-aa80d8e36e37_1200x500.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!I1wD!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F64c43ce2-c19e-467f-bac3-aa80d8e36e37_1200x500.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!I1wD!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F64c43ce2-c19e-467f-bac3-aa80d8e36e37_1200x500.png" width="1200" height="500" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/64c43ce2-c19e-467f-bac3-aa80d8e36e37_1200x500.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:500,&quot;width&quot;:1200,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!I1wD!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F64c43ce2-c19e-467f-bac3-aa80d8e36e37_1200x500.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!I1wD!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F64c43ce2-c19e-467f-bac3-aa80d8e36e37_1200x500.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!I1wD!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F64c43ce2-c19e-467f-bac3-aa80d8e36e37_1200x500.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!I1wD!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F64c43ce2-c19e-467f-bac3-aa80d8e36e37_1200x500.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Alternative onboarding options, as initially conceived.</p><p>After much preaching and various failed pilots, eight of Spain&#8217;s top media titles had fully or partially deployed Login with NODO by the end of 2021. This resulted in a very different audience sample of early adopters, which would also condition the evolution of our relationship with a rapidly changing user base, as we steadily replaced large publishers with independent creators.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ap1F!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3ed7c8e6-357f-476c-ae05-7258dac0798d_1200x500.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ap1F!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3ed7c8e6-357f-476c-ae05-7258dac0798d_1200x500.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ap1F!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3ed7c8e6-357f-476c-ae05-7258dac0798d_1200x500.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ap1F!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3ed7c8e6-357f-476c-ae05-7258dac0798d_1200x500.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ap1F!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3ed7c8e6-357f-476c-ae05-7258dac0798d_1200x500.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ap1F!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3ed7c8e6-357f-476c-ae05-7258dac0798d_1200x500.png" width="1200" height="500" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/3ed7c8e6-357f-476c-ae05-7258dac0798d_1200x500.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:500,&quot;width&quot;:1200,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ap1F!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3ed7c8e6-357f-476c-ae05-7258dac0798d_1200x500.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ap1F!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3ed7c8e6-357f-476c-ae05-7258dac0798d_1200x500.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ap1F!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3ed7c8e6-357f-476c-ae05-7258dac0798d_1200x500.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ap1F!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3ed7c8e6-357f-476c-ae05-7258dac0798d_1200x500.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>The NODO Trusted Media Program in action.</p><h3><strong>F. Zero-Party Data, Activation Studio, demand generation vs. demand discovery</strong></h3><p><em>Conversational emails</em> had paved the ground for the core concept of a <strong>Private Shopping Cloud</strong> (coined by Celine Takatsuno). They would allow the platform to learn from the very specific input that members provided in their reactions to offers shared by either our Trusted Brands (large advertisers expecting a minimum reach, as well as the reputational benefits of their association to a non-intrusive, privacy-preserving channel that paid for quality media) or <a href="https://medium.com/privacycloud/direct-to-consumer-retail-goes-on-autopilot-d875fb9519e4">NODO Merchants</a> (niche Direct To Consumer players offering ad hoc discounts with short-term performance targets).</p><p>Most importantly, NODO members were in full control of their <em>learnings</em> and self-declared interests. Their personal information was never shared with advertisers, who only received aggregated campaign results and conversational feedback.</p><p>By ensuring that such data never became First-Party Data, we were delivering on the promise of what we considered true Zero-Party Data (essentially, <a href="https://medium.com/privacycloud/zero-party-data-vs-declared-data-3cd5b2913667">not its general association to Declared Data</a>).</p><p>Still, many more changes and tests would follow.</p><h3><strong>G. Going for a spin</strong></h3><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LcqE!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc1758fc9-9fc8-4c0c-a82d-01ef396ae30c_1200x628.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LcqE!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc1758fc9-9fc8-4c0c-a82d-01ef396ae30c_1200x628.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LcqE!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc1758fc9-9fc8-4c0c-a82d-01ef396ae30c_1200x628.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LcqE!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc1758fc9-9fc8-4c0c-a82d-01ef396ae30c_1200x628.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LcqE!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc1758fc9-9fc8-4c0c-a82d-01ef396ae30c_1200x628.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LcqE!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc1758fc9-9fc8-4c0c-a82d-01ef396ae30c_1200x628.png" width="1200" height="628" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c1758fc9-9fc8-4c0c-a82d-01ef396ae30c_1200x628.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:628,&quot;width&quot;:1200,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LcqE!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc1758fc9-9fc8-4c0c-a82d-01ef396ae30c_1200x628.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LcqE!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc1758fc9-9fc8-4c0c-a82d-01ef396ae30c_1200x628.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LcqE!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc1758fc9-9fc8-4c0c-a82d-01ef396ae30c_1200x628.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LcqE!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc1758fc9-9fc8-4c0c-a82d-01ef396ae30c_1200x628.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>At long last, we had fully-functioning flywheel, together with three different levers to push it forward. As our logic for it went:</p><ol><li><p><em>Larger brands start behaving as &#8220;<strong>Advertisers</strong>&#8221; insofar as they are looking for alternative channels to diversify their customer acquisition, customer loyalty, or branding investments. Early adopters are enticed by the many challenges piling up in existing advertising channels (cookieless browsers, legal compliance risks, brand risk, ad fraud, ad tech taxes, social rejection, etc.), often coming at such challenges from the edges, within the context of the larger corporation: Chief Data Officer, Data Protection Officer, Communications, etc.</em></p></li><li><p><em><strong>Publishers</strong> are caught in the midst of their own business transformation, adapting their systems and processes to subscription-based models. Such transition leaves an opening between older, ad-supported structures and the new paywall-monetized ventures. While the former lose value by the minute in a world of infinite ad inventory (facilitated by platforms), the latter face an uphill battle for subscribers. A hybrid approach in which it is brands who sponsor premium content (or subscriptions) is particularly well-suited to their new goals and constraints.</em></p></li><li><p><em><strong>Individuals</strong> have been slowly driven away from traditional media. A majority of those still relying on publishers for news or entertainment are unwilling or unable to add another subscription to their wallet, and most hate intrusive advertising, annoying consent requests, and prompts for payment. Also, finding stuff on the Internet has become harder by the day, as every potential channel for research or exploration is now ad-funded, affiliate-driven, and biased (Google, Amazon, influencers, comparison sites, etc.). Early adopters arrive from both sides: either they want quality content with no ads, trackers, or costs attached; or they want to explore a brand new way of buying the things they need or may like.</em></p></li><li><p><em><strong>Merchants </strong>(or smaller Retailers sitting on a long tail of ever more niche offerings) are stuck in the current customer acquisition bottleneck. They want to make their inventory discoverable, not being held ransom by walled gardens or e-commerce giants. Also, some of them are willing to invest on performance-based campaigns that allow them to: a) stay in control of their own direct relationships with their customers; and (perhaps, even) b) circumvent the massive individual profiling and black-box bidding system that power existing customer acquisition channels at very high cost. Early adopters are driven by a natural tendency to explore alternative channels in a highly competitive direct-to-consumer arena, well aware that first-movers enjoy cheaper customer acquisition costs.</em></p></li></ol><p><em>Thus:</em></p><p><em>Advertisers drive Publishers. Publishers drive NODO Audiences (able to access premium content through a Single Sign-On that is paid for by their chosen brands). NODO Audiences may become NODO Shoppers (as they start relying on NODO to declare their preferences and receive relevant offers), who in turn wake Merchants up, willing to make their inventory discoverable and, at some point, even turn into Advertisers. The more NODO Shoppers rely on the system to satisfy their needs, the less incentive businesses will have to pour money into individual profiling and intrusive advertising. The more this happens, the bigger the budget available to offer clean, tracker-free publishing experiences, which results in more NODO Shoppers enticing even more Retailers&#8230;</em></p><p>There surely was more daydreaming on our part (an internal currency for cross-brand loyalty, an email masking service to protect people from the avalanche of First-Party Data harvesters&#8230;), but it is probably time for me to wrap up with the key obstacles on our way.</p><h2><strong>3. Forces of resistance</strong></h2><p>By the end of 2021 we had onboarded four large advertisers and over forty Direct To Consumer retailers in our pilot market (Spain). A year later, having stretched the patience of NODO members in order to meet our commitments (through repetitive, poorly filtered offers), and unable to persuade a new wave of users to turn their backs on banner ads and cookies in exchange for a single weekly email, we decided it was time for NODO to concede defeat.</p><p>Along the way we had once again been forced to subsidize all parties involved: advertisers, publishers, and end users. There was no alignment of incentives between them and our primary hypothesis had proven incorrect.</p><p>What failed exactly? A much larger flywheel was at play, running in the exact opposite direction. It represents the status quo and contains everything that we believe is wrong with advertising, retail, media, and the internet as a whole.</p><p>A few pieces stand out in what I will refer to as the Monster Flywheel (Death Star? take your pick).</p><h3><strong>Media agencies</strong></h3><p>Large media agencies have enough incentives in place to resist all efforts not leading to more data, higher commissions, or a greater grip on the customer. On the bright side, we found brave, open-minded teams at smaller, independent groups.</p><h3><strong>Advertisers</strong></h3><p>Advertisers are still chasing an illusion (multi-channel attribution!, a 360-degree view of the customer!). Demand-generation teams were frustrating in their inconsistency: a complete disregard for individual choices, transparency, or data protection laws &#8212; together with public advocacy for <em>Customer Centricity</em>. Even more surprising, we found very few teams ready to explore alternatives to the many expenditures that, as of today, have been proven to be money-losing. Habits are hard to break, especially when they are shared across departments, industries, or markets.</p><h3><strong>Individuals</strong></h3><p>Control runs counter to convenience. We will answer in a survey that we value privacy, but we will trip over ourselves to install the most intrusive of apps if we find it entertaining or useful (remember Clubhouse?). Only through trust and consistency can brands gain a competitive advantage, but cut-throat competition results in a race to the bottom, and it may take a few tangible, real-world consequences for individuals to make the distinction. We are talking Cambridge Analytica x 20 (after all, a single instance of it did not stop anyone from using Instagram or WhatsApp).</p><p>I am ready to bet that, were we to forbid TikTok, we would allow our children to use VPNs to pretend they are Chinese citizens in order to enjoy the app (ok, I would not).</p><h3><strong>Publishers</strong></h3><p>Few publishers have a capacity for strategic planning. They live for the now. Their editorial teams are isolated from the underlying economics of the titles that feed them. Advertising and subscription teams work in isolation, unable to make the most of their most valuable assets and insights across both worlds.</p><h3><strong>Retailers</strong></h3><p>Retailers want to sell. They survive on tight margins and need better targeting. Insofar as they face the abyss, privacy is an afterthought.</p><p>(I expect to be able to elaborate further on these, with time.)</p><h2><strong>4. Here comes Chapter II</strong></h2><p>With every single software development project now ground to a halt, we chose to keep the one thing that was unique about our expertise, not commoditized, and useful to others.</p><p>Be it Data Clean Rooms (a certain type&#8230;). Or Zero-Party Data modules. Or personal data <em>pods</em>. Or identity solutions. We can still help others build the pieces that fit in our dream flywheel. We can also help DPOs navigate the stormy waters of privacy compliance in the AdTech and MarTech spaces.</p><p>There is room for plenty of experimentation. And there is time, especially given a services offering that does not need to scale, or aim for world domination, or please short-sighted VCs. We have found a tremendous opportunity in the gap between the policies, documentation and internal beliefs at a compliance or DPOs office, and the technical reality of a company&#8217;s data collection practices.</p><p>We are reaching the era of the Privacy Engineer. Privacy Tech will simplify our lives, but, as software development has become a commodity and a VC-powered run towards scalability and quick returns becomes the path of least resistance (with thousands of companies competing to automate Data Subject Requests, Data Flow Maps or other pieces), it is the people orchestrating this new stack that will really make a difference. We plan to nurture such people. And with them we see <strong><a href="https://privacycloud.com/">an exciting new beginning</a></strong>.</p><h2><strong>With love&#8230;</strong></h2><p>As always, projects come and go, and it is the magic of people working together towards a common goals that remains. I have lost track of a few highly esteemed team members, but I really hope this was an enriching experience and a solid stepping stone towards a fruitful, joyful career. I will spare us all a long list, but the names and faces are in my heart.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7Hnr!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb0118cb0-bddf-4c3e-8502-9897f3d379f1_1058x887.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7Hnr!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb0118cb0-bddf-4c3e-8502-9897f3d379f1_1058x887.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7Hnr!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb0118cb0-bddf-4c3e-8502-9897f3d379f1_1058x887.png 848w, 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x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>In the thick of it&#8230;</p><p>I must also, yet again, show my admiration and appreciation for the people that had the patience to listen to my early musings, providing valuable feedback and support throughout the years, starting with <strong>I&#241;igo Garel-Jones</strong> and <strong>Luis Hern&#225;ndez</strong> (highly-esteemed <em>Of Counsels</em>).</p><p>Needless to say, our latest turns would have fallen very far from Planet Earth if not for the valuable input of <strong>Celine Takatsuno</strong>.</p><p>Lastly, enriching exchanges with <strong>Gam Dias</strong>, <strong>Ricardo Mart&#237;n Manj&#243;n</strong>, <strong>Gabriel Gonz&#225;lez Gil</strong>, <strong>Juanjo Divass&#243;n</strong>, <strong>Sylvia D&#237;az-Montenegro</strong>, <strong>Bernardo Crespo</strong>, <strong>Javier Recuenco</strong>, <strong>Joan Sard&#224;</strong> and <strong>Alessandro De Zanche</strong> will remain in my memory for years to come (and yet I hope that upcoming collaborations will cast an even greater shadow!)</p><p>TO BE CONTINUED.</p><p>********************</p><h3><strong>FAQs:</strong></h3><ol><li><p><strong>Investment</strong>: We did not take any VC money. Instead: <strong>Self-funded</strong> + <strong>BBVA</strong> Data &amp; Analytics and <strong>La Sexta Opcion</strong> (syndicated family offices), with amounts kept confidential under common agreement. Still, far below the average threshold of a US-based Seed round.</p></li><li><p><strong>Dev stack</strong>: Admin (backend &amp; B2B): Typescript &#8212; NodeJS &#8212; <a href="http://hapi.dev/">Hapi.dev</a> &#8212; AppEngine (Google Cloud) &#8212; Auth0; WeRule, NODO App (frontend &amp; C2B): Typescript &#8212; ReactNative &#8212; Expo (WeRule, NODO I); Typescript &#8212; React &#8212; NextJS (NODO II).</p></li><li><p><strong>GDPR compliance</strong> strategy: <strong>Contractual legal basis</strong> on the C2B side (Privacy Shopping Cloud akin to a personal shopper that cannot find things on your behalf unless you share interests and preferences). No personal data being transferred to advertisers or accessed in Activation Studio (B2B side).</p></li></ol>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accountability and third-party vetting in the age of wild automation]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cutting through the noise of third-party vendor credentials]]></description><link>https://www.privacycloud.com/p/accountability-and-third-party-vetting</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.privacycloud.com/p/accountability-and-third-party-vetting</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sergio Maldonado]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 23:52:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wmV0!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff6f54289-cc34-4b57-b6f8-943905d2d887_960x540.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" 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The image above is AI-free as well, retrieved from Canva&#8217;s photo repository.)</em></p><p>I have already covered quite a lot of ground in the space of third-party audits, or the vetting of data processors.</p><p>Things have evolved fast. There was a time when most people conflated personal data protection (EU), or data privacy (US), with information security. Any SaaS founder would have quickly pointed towards their ISO27001 (EU) or SOC2 (US) when asked about their privacy compliance credentials. This made some sense, as cybersecurity teams have traditionally had much more of a say (and a much larger budget) than DPOs (EU) or Chief Privacy Officers (US). It was their thumbs-down that procurement teams saw as an intractable red flag.</p><p>The same legacy culture would drag conversations about &#8220;personal data&#8221; into the old &#8220;PII&#8221; (Personally Identifiable Information) debate where, once again, executives found certainty and comfort in clear-cut concepts that never had to contend with the possibilities of algorithms or data processing at scale.</p><p>Then came public enforcement of personal data or privacy laws, quite often on the back of data breaches. AI-specific laws, and a wider application of privacy laws to AI decision-making followed. Third parties have constantly proven to be the weakest link in this new reality.</p><p>Exhibiting a company&#8217;s security credentials and cookie-cutter paperwork was suddenly not enough for either data processors or data controllers engaging them. Putting the complexities of international data transfers aside, a new level of scrutiny became the new norm. Self-graded reports and paid-for seals of accreditation that once kept security teams happy would now have to face an additional degree of diligence.</p><p>Paradoxically, it is AI-driven automation, and the scale this has brought to the once thorough efforts stemming from the overarching principle of accountability, that has cast a new light on privacy or data protection credentials. At a point when anybody can produce an impressive amount of prose, the same can be stripped down to its real value (or boiled down to nothing) in a matter of seconds.</p><p>Companies used to hide behind their &#8220;literature&#8221;, be it in the form of third-party assessments or the DPIAs that followed their deployment. Those who mastered the structure of these documents, rather than the technical or organizational measures that truly addressed the risks involved, are suddenly left without anything to show for it. Their moat is now a commodity.</p><p>This can only be good news for businesses that have really understood Privacy by Design principles and implemented data minimization practices. At long last, their efforts can be rewarded by a more nuanced analysis of the competing alternatives in each category.</p><p>Our upcoming Vendor Watch service is a first attempt to both reflect this new reality and create meaningful value on top of it. Please feel free to reach out to us if you want to find out more about it.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tracción, visión y equilibrio: tres partidas con reglas diferentes]]></title><description><![CDATA[Canal CEO - Aclaraciones previas]]></description><link>https://www.privacycloud.com/p/traccion-vision-y-equilibrio-tres</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.privacycloud.com/p/traccion-vision-y-equilibrio-tres</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sergio Maldonado]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 21:53:06 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MV3T!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe2390ac4-38ff-4fb8-8f53-fe808ef83a0c_960x540.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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Arrastro algunos de ellos desde hace varios a&#241;os, con o sin modificaciones, por considerar que siguen siendo aplicables con independencia de proyecto empresarial.)</em></p><p>En mi experiencia, limitada a los pa&#237;ses donde me ha tocado pelear, abrir oficinas o levantar capital, la <em>startups</em> pueden, simplific&#225;ndolo mucho, jugar tres partidas (o verse abocadas a un h&#237;brido de dif&#237;cil gesti&#243;n). Me ha tocado vivir las tres, cada cual con sus penurias y alegr&#237;as, entre 2006 y 2022:</p><ul><li><p>Partida de &#8220;tracci&#243;n&#8221;, apoyada sobre un plan de crecimiento plausible y los esteroides de una inversi&#243;n externa. (Con Sweetspot nos subimos a este toro.)</p></li><li><p>Partida de &#8220;visi&#243;n&#8221;, apoyada sobre un importante acto de fe, a su vez secundado por inversiones externas de a&#250;n mayor calado. (Con WeRule-PrivacyCloud toreamos en este ruedo hasta la salida de BBVA.) </p></li><li><p>Partida de &#8220;equilibrio&#8221;, sin apoyo externo, con crecimiento limitado al facilitado por el flujo de ingresos. (Con DIVISADERO atravesamos este desierto.)</p></li></ul><p>&#8203;La partida de &#8220;visi&#243;n&#8221; es la m&#225;s satisfactoria a corto plazo. Permite acumular suficiente caja en las fases de mera concepci&#243;n del negocio como para no preocuparse por dirigirse al mercado, vender, competir por talento en el rango medio de salarios, o adaptar el producto a peticiones de los primeros clientes. Eso s&#237;, la inversi&#243;n externa es tan cuantiosa que cuando llega la hora de generar negocio las expectativas son elevadas. Funciona en mercados con mucha promesa, poco talento, y fundadores con mucho recorrido (vendiendo empresas) y f&#225;cil acceso a financiaci&#243;n.</p><p>&#8203;La partida de &#8220;tracci&#243;n&#8221; se produce en la mayor parte de las inversiones de capital riesgo en startups, pues tienen lugar una vez que hay un producto viable y listo para dirigirse al mercado. Los inversores aportan los &#8220;esteroides&#8221; sobre la promesa de que el crecimiento ser&#225; exponencial (frente al que pueda obtenerse de forma org&#225;nica) en el momento en que se multipliquen esfuerzos comerciales, de marketing, etc. Esta partida termina muy r&#225;pido: o se crece exponencialmente durante los primeros a&#241;os, o se cae con todas las armaduras, echando el cierre o malvendi&#233;ndose a un tercero. Eso s&#237;, mientras los ingresos aumenten un 100% anual importa poco seguir perdiendo todo el dinero del mundo, puesto que la inversi&#243;n seguir&#225; apostando por transferir un incremento de valor al siguiente entrante (caso de GitHub: p&#233;rdidas de 66 millones de d&#243;lares entre Q1 y Q3 de 2016, pero crecimiento en usuarios tan astron&#243;mico que Sequoia sigui&#243; volcando muchos millones hasta su adquisici&#243;n por Microsoft).</p><p>&#8203;La partida de &#8220;equilibrio&#8221; es la m&#225;s sufrida a corto plazo. Al no existir la apuesta externa, se puede vivir solo de los m&#225;rgenes que se generan, con lo que el producto crece &#250;nicamente cuando los clientes existentes lo permiten. El equipo se abastece con salarios condicionados por dicho margen, resultando muy dif&#237;cil competir por talento con partidas de &#8220;visi&#243;n&#8221; o &#8220;tracci&#243;n&#8221; (que pueden duplicar o quintuplicar dichos salarios). Eso s&#237;, un negocio de &#8220;equilibrio&#8221; es ya un negocio real desde su nacimiento, con lo que goza de mucha mayor estabilidad y longevidad en todos los sentidos. Como principal inconveniente, su ambici&#243;n puede quedar reducida a escombros por no encontrar nunca la forma de dar el salto a otros mercados e industrias. Dicho lo cual, nunca es tarde para una empresa &#8220;bootstrapped&#8221; (en equilibrio) a recibir una inyecci&#243;n orientada a tracci&#243;n. Fue el caso de Atlassian o Qualtrics, que a&#250;n creciendo org&#225;nicamente durante muchos a&#241;os dieron con productos muy virales.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Atracción continuada de nuevo talento]]></title><description><![CDATA[Canal CEO - Aclaraciones b&#225;sicas]]></description><link>https://www.privacycloud.com/p/atraccion-continuada-de-nuevo-talento</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.privacycloud.com/p/atraccion-continuada-de-nuevo-talento</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sergio Maldonado]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 21:41:28 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nzxU!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F831db8ad-3fa6-4887-973e-2ba62f7a5818_960x540.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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Arrastro algunos de ellos desde hace varios a&#241;os, con o sin modificaciones, por considerar que siguen siendo aplicables con independencia de proyecto empresarial.)</em></p><p>La atracci&#243;n de talento no es una tarea que pueda funcionar con &#233;xito de forma descontinuada, encendi&#233;ndose y apag&#225;ndose en funci&#243;n del ritmo de aparici&#243;n de necesidades o vacantes, sino que da &#250;nicamente resultados cuando forma parte de la rutina de la empresa a trav&#233;s de varios esfuerzos progresivos.</p><p>Algo similar al &#8220;always-on&#8221; marketing, pero aplicado al embudo interno.</p><p>Por eso hay diversos contenidos p&#250;blicos que se orientan realmente a la conformaci&#243;n de una marca atractiva para potenciales miembros del equipo, y no ya de cara a potenciales clientes.</p><p>Pero la misi&#243;n tiene que ir mucho m&#225;s all&#225;. Desde una cierta proyecci&#243;n (p&#250;blica o privada, oral o escrita, en funci&#243;n de personalidades!) del equipo actual como escaparate de la comunidad que dar&#237;a cobijo a quien busca espacio de desarrollo, hasta la esponsorizaci&#243;n de eventos relevantes, la apertura de puertas a j&#243;venes con curiosidad, la participaci&#243;n en el entorno acad&#233;mico, o el mantenimiento de ese TRM: &#8220;Talent Relationship Management&#8221; - para garantizar que no perdemos de vista a gente interesante con quienes hemos tenido contacto previo.</p><p>Con lo cual se cierra adem&#225;s el c&#237;rculo de la importancia de formarnos continuamente y cultivar m&#233;todos de excelencia en la ejecuci&#243;n (servicio, desarrollo, etc.), porque adem&#225;s de hacernos m&#225;s eficientes a todos los niveles son el abono necesario para que alguien con verdadera pasi&#243;n por lo que hace vea en nosotros un equipo atractivo para formarse.</p><p>Aqu&#237; el bloque de nuestro dashboard 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Arrastro algunos de ellos desde hace varios a&#241;os, con o sin modificaciones, por considerar que siguen siendo aplicables con independencia de proyecto empresarial.)</em></p><p>Muchos me hab&#233;is o&#237;do hablar bastante de &#8220;always-on marketing&#8221;. Viene a ser la respuesta al dr&#225;stico cambio sufrido por los procesos de ventas como consecuencia de la pr&#225;ctica desaparici&#243;n del tel&#233;fono (la llamada en fr&#237;o) como canal de adquisici&#243;n.</p><p>Aqu&#237; algo al respecto, por si hay curiosidad: https://constructionoptimize.com/cold-calling-is-outdated/ </p><p>Lo cierto es que no tiene mucho misterio y va muy alineado con la tendencia general de:</p><ul><li><p>Dictadura de la demanda</p></li><li><p>Saturaci&#243;n de la oferta: no hay cuellos de botella en el acceso a entornos de desarrollo y distribuci&#243;n en nube</p></li><li><p>Saturaci&#243;n del mensaje: no hay cuellos de botella en la comunicaci&#243;n al p&#250;blico (salvo la excepci&#243;n de la poca vida que resta a la prensa), y</p></li><li><p>Procesos de descubrimiento muy inmediatos: la saturaci&#243;n de informaci&#243;n lleva al potencial cliente a depositar confianza creciente en sistemas de filtrado (t&#233;cnicos-Google, recomendaciones-contactos, analistas de industria-Gartner&#8230;), y dedicar menos tiempo a la exploraci&#243;n.</p></li></ul><p>El marketing de continuidad evita el enfoque en campa&#241;as puntuales en favor de expandir al m&#225;ximo el alcance de la propuesta de valor. Por la atomizaci&#243;n de la audiencia en que desemboca una saturaci&#243;n del mensaje (algo as&#237; como el &#8220;filter bubble&#8221; que tiene lugar en Facebook con tendencias pol&#237;ticas o de otro orden), esta expansi&#243;n exige que la propuesta de valor pueda adoptar tantos mensajes posibles como nichos de audiencia sea posible cubrir.</p><p>Al final sucede que todo el mundo quiere el mensaje m&#225;s claro posible, pero al mismo tiempo poca gente comparte una misma base de conocimiento de partida. En un intercambio telef&#243;nico esto se resuelve reaccionando sobre la marcha al conocimiento del interlocutor, pero en un proceso puramente dirigido por el comprador queda solo aspirar a dar respuesta positiva al mayor n&#250;mero posible de inquietudes.</p><p>Como vestir una misma marca de m&#250;ltiples &#8220;chaquetas&#8221; dispara contra la propia marca por la forma en que funciona el entorno t&#233;cnico de descubrimiento (ChatGPT, Google, Crunchbase, etc.), la soluci&#243;n m&#225;s &#243;ptima suele ser la propagaci&#243;n de marcas alternativas respaldadas por ligeros cambios en la propuesta de valor subyacente.</p><p>De ah&#237; surge habitualmente la presentaci&#243;n del mismo offering desde prismas muy variopintos, en la esperanza de abarcar el m&#225;ximo tr&#225;fico entrante posible.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[La Escalera de Principios: escogiendo nuestras batallas]]></title><description><![CDATA[Canal CEO - Aclaraciones b&#225;sicas]]></description><link>https://www.privacycloud.com/p/la-escalera-de-principios-escogiendo</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.privacycloud.com/p/la-escalera-de-principios-escogiendo</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sergio Maldonado]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 21:34:30 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lSkw!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3def26d4-8f07-45a4-a2bb-3b3f488fc1c3_960x540.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lSkw!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3def26d4-8f07-45a4-a2bb-3b3f488fc1c3_960x540.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source 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Arrastro algunos de ellos desde hace varios a&#241;os, con o sin modificaciones, por considerar que siguen siendo aplicables con independencia de proyecto empresarial.)</em></p><p>Resulta conveniente tener clara la escala de valores de una empresa antes de encontrarse frente al barranco que obliga a escoger entre dos o m&#225;s principios hasta ese momento enarbolados como igualmente supremos.</p><p>Nuestra &#250;ltima aventura ha nacido con s&#243;lidos cimientos &#233;ticos en lo referente al <em>human-centricity</em> y las relaciones de transparencia y control individual entre personas y organizaciones. Esto resulta en un importante grado de fricci&#243;n con el status quo de las disciplinas de marketing relacional, marketing digital, ecommerce o analytics. En otras palabras, tenemos entre manos una batalla de tal calado que cualquier distracci&#243;n con frentes paralelos supondr&#225; una merma de nuestras posibilidades de &#233;xito en la misi&#243;n reina.</p><p>No significa esto que hagamos con ello ojos ciegos a m&#250;ltiples injusticias y desajustes sociales, contribuyendo con nuestra apat&#237;a o complicidad a su perpetuaci&#243;n, sino que sumamos nuestras fuerzas a dichos frentes en segundas o terceras l&#237;neas ofensivas (dejando el frente de vanguardia para quienes hacen de ellos su prop&#243;sito fundamental).</p><p>En otras palabras, al igual que ocurre con las curvas de adopci&#243;n paralelas en t&#233;rminos de sofisticaci&#243;n de un determinado segmento del mercado, buscamos &#8220;early adopters&#8221; de nuestra misi&#243;n reina (human centricity), pero no aspiramos a que estos sean a su vez igualmente visionarios en segundas o terceras misiones porque pasar&#237;amos de un 5% a un 0,02% de opciones de conversi&#243;n (en t&#233;rminos de fe, que no de <em>funnel</em>).</p><p>No hay aqu&#237; ejemplo m&#225;s ilustrativo que el del <strong>lenguaje inclusivo</strong>. As&#237; como coincido en que toca buscar un lenguaje neutral y evitar la inercia discriminatoria de los usos heredados, me queda claro que habremos cercenado nuestras capacidades de &#233;xito (y de subsistencia) cuando, adem&#225;s de dejar completamente descolocados a departamentos enteros de marketing con una propuesta radicalmente opuesta a las pr&#225;cticas que han conformado su know-how profesional de muchos a&#241;os - como hacemos ahora -, lo hacemos dirigi&#233;ndonos a &#8220;vosotres&#8221;. Queremos contribuir a esa batalla. Incluso me resultan m&#225;s que convincentes los argumentos en favor de dejar a un lado los criterios anquilosados de la RAE. Pero nuestras manos no pueden cargar con otro ariete.</p><p>Aqu&#237; va con ello un primer intento de dibujar nuestro propio <em>Principles Stack</em>, con la confianza de aclarar sin dilaci&#243;n qu&#233; alforjas (por evitar ser m&#225;s dr&#225;stico) tocar&#225; con gran dolor dejar caer por el precipicio cuando la supervivencia de la entidad completa dependa de una decisi&#243;n inmediata. Sin duda se podr&#237;a jerarquizar y agrupar mejor, pero prefiero ilustrarlo pobremente a dejarlo en un concepto abstracto hasta contar con el tiempo que exige su afinado.</p><ol><li><p>Human centricity</p></li><li><p>Data ethics (PbDD and beyond)</p></li><li><p>Sustainable development</p></li><li><p>Empathy</p></li><li><p>Innovation</p></li><li><p>Profitability</p></li><li><p>Inclusiveness</p></li><li><p>Psychological safety</p></li><li><p>Equality</p></li><li><p>Quality of life</p></li><li><p>Social impact</p></li><li><p>Spiritual balance</p></li></ol><p>(ej., creo que Inclusiveness y Psychological safety son consecuencias naturales de la Empat&#237;a real - aunque al armarlo en &#8220;Spanglish&#8221; ya estoy siendo poco &#8220;Inclusive&#8221; de quienes solo hablan castellano y tal vez requiera menci&#243;n especial al &#8220;respeto de las barreras de cada idioma&#8221;, igual que &#8220;lenguaje inclusivo&#8221; podr&#237;a exigir categor&#237;a propia).</p><p>Abierto a ideas como siempre y aqu&#237; una escucha interesante (Podcast) al respecto de c&#243;mo la ausencia de un &#8220;Principles Stack&#8221; ha puesto en apuros a empresas en el sector tecnol&#243;gico: <a href="https://exponent.fm/episode-177-principle-stacks/">https://exponent.fm/episode-177-principle-stacks/</a></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracia vs. niveles de información. Impacto en seguridad psicológica]]></title><description><![CDATA[Canal CEO - Aclaraciones b&#225;sicas]]></description><link>https://www.privacycloud.com/p/democracia-vs-niveles-de-informacion</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.privacycloud.com/p/democracia-vs-niveles-de-informacion</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sergio Maldonado]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 21:33:24 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UFRU!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffb3b4f46-8967-44c6-83a6-5649ffea132b_960x540.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UFRU!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffb3b4f46-8967-44c6-83a6-5649ffea132b_960x540.png" 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Arrastro algunos de ellos desde hace varios a&#241;os, con o sin modificaciones, por considerar que siguen siendo aplicables con independencia de proyecto empresarial.)</em></p><p>Imaginemos una cocina abarrotada en el seno de un restaurante de &#233;xito. Entran y salen camareros con diligencia militar, las aprendices pican vegetales, el repostero aplica el soplete a una capa de az&#250;car sobre la crema catalana, el segundo chef dora unos muslos de pato y el chef pregunta c&#243;mo va la mesa 17&#8230; Pocos ponen en duda que quien mejor conoce (por experiencia, instinto o preparaci&#243;n) la forma de preparar y servir un plato deber&#237;a contar con criterio preferente en la toma de decisiones a &#233;ste pertinentes. Y que la orquestaci&#243;n de tiempos es en s&#237; misma otra &#225;rea de conocimiento sujeta a la misma regla.</p><p>As&#237; como la informaci&#243;n t&#225;ctica, muy pr&#243;xima a un proceso concreto, facilita la toma de decisiones en esferas de corto alcance, el conocimiento m&#225;s operacional o estrat&#233;gico se impone en decisiones de mayor impacto. Ni el chef se acerca a decidir cu&#225;nto calor se aplica al requemado del postre (toda vez haya sido su encargado debidamente formado), ni los lavaplatos exigen igualdad de voto sobre qu&#233; plato sale primero del horno.</p><p>Con ello, el principio de transparencia sobre c&#243;mo funcionan las cosas no es paralelo a la democratizaci&#243;n de las decisiones (que llevar&#237;a a la par&#225;lisis y el fracaso del equipo completo). Pero tampoco deber&#237;amos confundir niveles de informaci&#243;n aparente (experiencia, instinto, preparaci&#243;n), o grados de autoridad -por rango en la toma de decisiones- con derechos de expresi&#243;n. La expresi&#243;n es democr&#225;tica y bienvenida: no es infrecuente que aquellas personas con menor informaci&#243;n o bagaje terminen aportando la soluci&#243;n a problem&#225;ticas complejas como consecuencia, precisamente, de su enfoque novedoso y di&#225;fano. Tal vez no sea muy apropiado que la aprendiz de cocina profiera opiniones constantes sobre la diligencia de los camareros, pero sin duda deber&#237;a contar con un espacio seguro para poner en valor su particular apreciaci&#243;n.</p><p>Cada cual decide sobre su vida, su formaci&#243;n, sus herramientas, sus picos de productividad, su encaje incluso en el seno de la organizaci&#243;n, con independencia de lo mucho que otras y otros puedan estar en posici&#243;n de juzgar. Somos una agrupaci&#243;n de personas libres e independientes que decidimos aunar muy diferentes &#8220;superpoderes&#8221; (skills) en torno a roles temporales. Cuenta lo que tengas en mente y haz lo que te resulte coherente con las expectativas compartidas. Ante la tentaci&#243;n de juzgar en base a tus creencias f&#233;rreas (pilares respetados de tu propia estabilidad), intenta contrastar criterios y fluir&#225;n aportaciones de valor en ambas direcciones. La verdadera empat&#237;a genera seguridad psicol&#243;gica de forma natural.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Áreas de trabajo, organigrama y equipos]]></title><description><![CDATA[Canal CEO - Aclaraciones b&#225;sicas]]></description><link>https://www.privacycloud.com/p/areas-de-trabajo-organigrama-y-equipos</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.privacycloud.com/p/areas-de-trabajo-organigrama-y-equipos</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sergio Maldonado]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 21:32:25 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VwnD!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2be3bcbc-1dce-4c5a-94c3-a52d1643b93b_960x540.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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Arrastro algunos de ellos desde hace varios a&#241;os, con o sin modificaciones, por considerar que siguen siendo aplicables con independencia de proyecto empresarial.)</em></p><p>Como bien identificado durante la reciente sesi&#243;n de Team Building, contamos con cinco &#225;reas de trabajo cotidiano, a las que sumo una de incorporaci&#243;n pr&#243;xima (&#8220;Customer Success&#8221;, en el momento en que haya que acompa&#241;ar a clientes en el seguimiento a sus inversiones): Finance/Ops, Product &amp; Engineering, Legal, Marketing, Sales.</p><p>No hay una correspondencia directa entre estas &#225;reas y los *Pilares B&#225;sicos de Actividad* (por definici&#243;n m&#225;s abstractos y a salvo de alteraciones en el organigrama, los roles o la distribuci&#243;n de aptitudes/skills), pero s&#237; est&#225;n asociadas a roles y equipos.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pilares básicos de actividad en la empresa]]></title><description><![CDATA[Canal CEO - Aclaraciones b&#225;sicas]]></description><link>https://www.privacycloud.com/p/pilares-basicos-de-actividad-en-la</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.privacycloud.com/p/pilares-basicos-de-actividad-en-la</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sergio Maldonado]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 21:30:56 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LPlj!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff71fc775-f9e9-41de-8454-a6bd8400cbbe_960x540.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LPlj!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff71fc775-f9e9-41de-8454-a6bd8400cbbe_960x540.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source 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Arrastro algunos de ellos desde hace varios a&#241;os, con o sin modificaciones, por considerar que siguen siendo aplicables con independencia de proyecto empresarial.)</em></p><ol><li><p><strong>Funding</strong>: relativo a la financiaci&#243;n que garantiza nuestra supervivencia durante un plazo determinado de tiempo. De este pilar cuelgan proyectos de cortejo de nuevas fuentes de capital (ej., capital riesgo) y tareas asociadas a la relaci&#243;n con inversores actuales.</p></li><li><p><strong>Single Brand View</strong>: relativo al cultivo cuidadoso y constante de una marca, o la representaci&#243;n &#250;nica y diferenciada de un conjunto de valores y postulados en el contexto de diversas conversaciones. De este pilar cuelgan proyectos de comunicaci&#243;n, la selecci&#243;n de nuestro tono de expresi&#243;n a trav&#233;s de todos y cada uno de nuestros poros, el dise&#241;o y mantenimiento de los activos que nos representan y un amplio abanico de actividades de marketing.</p></li><li><p><strong>Full Value Proposition</strong>: relativo al desarrollo de productos, definici&#243;n de ofertas/pricing (ej., Trusted Brands Program), estructuraci&#243;n de un programa de socios (ej., Trusted Media Program), revestimiento en t&#233;rminos de adecuaci&#243;n normativa y est&#225;ndares y marcos contractuales.</p></li><li><p><strong>Stellar Team</strong>: relativo a la cuidadosa conformaci&#243;n de unas &#8220;brasas&#8221; o poso s&#243;lido de buenas pr&#225;cticas y experiencias vitales de calado, bajo el convencimiento de que solo un equipo perfectamente alineado en t&#233;rminos de capacidades, actitud y visi&#243;n puede dar a luz productos excelentes dignos de impacto real. M&#225;s a&#250;n, es habitual que el poso de talento propio termine garantizando el &#8220;optionality&#8221; o la capacidad de pivotado de una empresa hacia cualquier rinc&#243;n alternativo de actividad productiva.</p></li></ol><p>Esto se viene a reflejar en los siguientes bloques de seguimiento peri&#243;dico (c&#237;rculos conc&#233;ntricos que hemos ido presentando al consejo de diferentes formas para dejar siempre claro el aspirado <em>Flywheel</em> en el centro):</p><h3>Full Value Proposition (Product Market Fit)</h3><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!o79Q!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd6535a14-96e6-4900-9915-359842cf765f_960x540.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h3>Full Value Proposition (Operational Excellence)</h3><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vG7A!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F253b49d9-a8d6-4c13-adde-2ba6018c3a02_960x540.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h3>Single Brand View </h3><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NMcW!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F068aef79-a311-4dce-8e60-7d7a6e093c26_960x540.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NMcW!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F068aef79-a311-4dce-8e60-7d7a6e093c26_960x540.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NMcW!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F068aef79-a311-4dce-8e60-7d7a6e093c26_960x540.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NMcW!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F068aef79-a311-4dce-8e60-7d7a6e093c26_960x540.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NMcW!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F068aef79-a311-4dce-8e60-7d7a6e093c26_960x540.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NMcW!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F068aef79-a311-4dce-8e60-7d7a6e093c26_960x540.png" width="960" height="540" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/068aef79-a311-4dce-8e60-7d7a6e093c26_960x540.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:540,&quot;width&quot;:960,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:89145,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.privacycloud.com/i/179397780?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F068aef79-a311-4dce-8e60-7d7a6e093c26_960x540.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NMcW!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F068aef79-a311-4dce-8e60-7d7a6e093c26_960x540.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NMcW!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F068aef79-a311-4dce-8e60-7d7a6e093c26_960x540.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NMcW!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F068aef79-a311-4dce-8e60-7d7a6e093c26_960x540.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NMcW!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F068aef79-a311-4dce-8e60-7d7a6e093c26_960x540.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h3>Stellar Team</h3><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CLlv!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F03667d55-ff90-481e-b0e2-1adb094be8ec_960x540.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CLlv!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F03667d55-ff90-481e-b0e2-1adb094be8ec_960x540.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CLlv!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F03667d55-ff90-481e-b0e2-1adb094be8ec_960x540.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CLlv!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F03667d55-ff90-481e-b0e2-1adb094be8ec_960x540.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CLlv!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F03667d55-ff90-481e-b0e2-1adb094be8ec_960x540.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CLlv!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F03667d55-ff90-481e-b0e2-1adb094be8ec_960x540.png" width="960" height="540" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/03667d55-ff90-481e-b0e2-1adb094be8ec_960x540.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:540,&quot;width&quot;:960,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:139746,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.privacycloud.com/i/179397780?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F03667d55-ff90-481e-b0e2-1adb094be8ec_960x540.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CLlv!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F03667d55-ff90-481e-b0e2-1adb094be8ec_960x540.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CLlv!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F03667d55-ff90-481e-b0e2-1adb094be8ec_960x540.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CLlv!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F03667d55-ff90-481e-b0e2-1adb094be8ec_960x540.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CLlv!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F03667d55-ff90-481e-b0e2-1adb094be8ec_960x540.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h3>Funding</h3><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WoNH!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8d349151-0ffa-4cad-ab3c-2c7aaa0c8a4b_960x540.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WoNH!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8d349151-0ffa-4cad-ab3c-2c7aaa0c8a4b_960x540.png" width="960" height="540" 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stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cómo dormir por las noches cuando la locomotora se acerca al barranco]]></title><description><![CDATA[Canal CEO - Mollera abierta]]></description><link>https://www.privacycloud.com/p/como-dormir-por-las-noches-cuando</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.privacycloud.com/p/como-dormir-por-las-noches-cuando</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sergio Maldonado]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 21:28:52 GMT</pubDate><enclosure 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rusa que es toda startup.</p><p>Suelo dar una respuesta r&#225;pida, que es &#8220;cojo olas, nado, corro y toco la guitarra&#8221;. La realidad es que he pasado la mayor parte de mi vida &#8220;escalando sin cuerda&#8221;, asumiendo que toda seguridad en el puesto de trabajo es una ilusi&#243;n &#243;ptica, y entendiendo que el &#250;nico arn&#233;s v&#225;lido es el de la acumulaci&#243;n de experiencias propias.</p><p>Como ya he contado a muchos, me han aportado mucho m&#225;s los trabajos malpagados de la juventud que cualquier carrera o posgrado. Y no fueron pocos: tres a&#241;os en Telepizza (repartidor + limpiando/cerrando el local los s&#225;bados); un a&#241;o sirviendo desayunos y catering por varios hoteles y restaurantes; otro a&#241;o de camarero; seis meses de recepcionista de hotel&#8230; Esa aportaci&#243;n no es la asunci&#243;n derrotista de la precariedad laboral, sino todo lo contrario: la confirmaci&#243;n de que nada se salva del ciclo de renovaci&#243;n constante.</p><p>Pero por supuesto una cosa es no temer por mi propio futuro (frase que en estos momentos suena obscena, pero tuvo mucho sentido) y otra tomarte a la ligera el de decenas de personas y sus familias. Esas familias son un acreedor a quien por supuesto importa poco que no se haya vendido nada en todo el mes, y ah&#237; donde no hay vasos comunicantes (cero traspaso del riesgo) se acumula una l&#243;gica presi&#243;n que comprendo que acabe con la salud de mucha gente.</p><p>Creo que la f&#243;rmula est&#225; en tener unos pilares b&#225;sicos de &#8220;fortaleza mental&#8221;, como estoy seguro de que cada uno tiene los suyos ya porque nadie ha llegado hasta aqu&#237; sin superar las batallas inherentes a la vida. Si bien un emprendedor tiene que llevarlos hasta cierto extremo para suplir la imposibilidad de desconectar, o el equilibrio emocional que aporta una rutina familiar m&#225;s ortodoxa.</p><p>En mi caso hace muchos a&#241;os que me agarro a los dos pilares m&#225;s previsibles: el deporte y las humanidades. El primero se materializa en la rutina de correr o nadar por las ma&#241;anas, y viene a ser la ra&#237;z sobre la que construyo la disciplina que muchas otras cosas exigen. El segundo (me imagino que supliendo mi falta de religiosidad) se ha ido concretando a trav&#233;s de los a&#241;os en una o varias formas de arte, m&#250;sica o literatura. Y no concibo actividad productiva sin la amplitud de miras que aporta este trasfondo de humanidades.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[El acuerdo tácito empleado-empresario]]></title><description><![CDATA[Canal CEO - Mollera abierta]]></description><link>https://www.privacycloud.com/p/el-acuerdo-tacito-empleado-empresario</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.privacycloud.com/p/el-acuerdo-tacito-empleado-empresario</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sergio Maldonado]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 21:26:25 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5oRw!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2fa211ae-7d84-4c81-a455-40591754899c_960x540.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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&#8220;desconexi&#243;n&#8221;) a cambio de libertad, remotas posibilidades de satisfacci&#243;n de una ambici&#243;n (con o sin codicia), y la persecuci&#243;n de un prop&#243;sito creativo</p></li><li><p>El empleado sacrifica en mayor o menor medida las aspiraciones iniciales del empresario a cambio de ingresos garantizados, vida m&#225;s all&#225; de la espec&#237;fica unidad productiva, y posiblemente salud f&#237;sica/mental.</p></li></ul><p>&#8203;Hasta hace algunos a&#241;os consider&#233; que esta situaci&#243;n era 100% intercambiable, con un futuro en que todos seamos a un tiempo ambas cosas por desaparecer la relaci&#243;n &#8220;laboral&#8221; e incluso la empresa como se ha heredado de la revoluci&#243;n industrial, en un mundo atomizado hasta el extremo en que se forman unidades productivas bajo demanda, ora lideradas por otros, ora por uno mismo.</p><p>Despu&#233;s vinieron las modas de montar &#8220;startups&#8221; y la obsesi&#243;n de todo pol&#237;tico por hacer de todo ciudadano un empresario, y un repaso a las estad&#237;sticas me llevaron en otra direcci&#243;n. Dado que la mayor parte de las empresas desaparece en su primer a&#241;o de vida, y que solo el 5% sobreviven a los primeros diez a&#241;os, podr&#237;a extraerse que quien emprenda lleva algo en los genes similar al instinto suicida-procreador del macho de una mantis religiosa. Y que por tanto yo he nacido para esto, funcione o no. Como sin duda aflorar&#225; en algunas o algunos de vosotros.</p><p>Sea de un modo u otro, seamos todos de la misma cepa o no, veo esta relaci&#243;n como algo que requiere mucho mayor acercamiento de lo que hemos heredado si es que queremos llevar a buen puerto esta particular aventura.&#8203;</p><p>En otras palabras, en una relaci&#243;n en que unos ponemos riesgo y capital (cuando llega) y otros ponemos tiempo y compromiso, el equilibrio se rompe cuando:</p><ul><li><p>El emprendedor se aprovecha del tiempo y esfuerzo de otros sin corresponder con riesgo y compromiso o la transmisi&#243;n de un prop&#243;sito claro</p></li><li><p>El empleado se impermeabiliza ante la apuesta personal y patrimonial del empresario para &#8220;cumplir&#8221; con un horario sin asumir compromiso alguno de cara al entregable o misi&#243;n final.</p></li></ul><p>&#8203;Por esto mismo repito mucho que no me interesa vuestro tiempo (esto afecta m&#225;s bien a vuestra propia relaci&#243;n vis-&#224;-vis el resto de compa&#241;eros, necesitados de un esfuerzo en equipo), sino m&#225;s bien vuestro compromiso con el resultado final. Un producto impecable, un cliente feliz, una marca aspiracional.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Propósito final de una empresa, a mi juicio]]></title><description><![CDATA[Canal CEO - Mollera abierta]]></description><link>https://www.privacycloud.com/p/proposito-final-de-una-empresa-a</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.privacycloud.com/p/proposito-final-de-una-empresa-a</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sergio Maldonado]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 21:25:01 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!pU0I!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6c8745c7-8abb-4745-947c-ae5ac6396791_960x540.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><em>(Esta secci&#243;n es una ventana a la forma en que me organizo y pienso destinada al equipo que me acompa&#241;a en un determinado momento, no porque me parezca singular o digno de atenci&#243;n alguna, sino porque resulta a veces m&#225;s sencillo tirar del hilo hacia la fuente para entender algunas pr&#225;cticas y decisiones.)</em></p><p>Tal vez esto ayude a entender algunas decisiones pasadas y futuras.</p><p>Creo que quien apuesta su vida o patrimonio personal en constituir una entidad econ&#243;mica independiente de cualquier tipo, desde puesto de churros en la calle a enlatadora de aceitunas, es quien tiene que decidir sus motivos. Bastante sacrificio supone cualquier &#8220;parto productivo&#8221; como para que le venga a uno impuesto su destino.</p><p>Dicho lo cual tienen que aceptarse los l&#237;mites legales y &#233;ticos del contexto social. Sobran ejemplos de atajos por encima de ambos, casi siempre originados en una banalizaci&#243;n del motivo final.</p><p>En mi caso ha habido siempre tres motivos detr&#225;s de la &#8220;emprendedur&#237;a&#8221;, el tercero de los cuales no he percibido adecuadamente hasta a&#241;os recientes, por haberse refugiado en el inconsciente:</p><ol><li><p><strong>Libertad</strong>, o necesidad de ser due&#241;o de mi destino. Haber trabajado para cinco o seis personas o entidades ajenas en mi vida solo me sirvi&#243; para descubrir que un esp&#237;ritu tremendamente inquieto (&#161;o disperso!) no puede nunca dar el 100% de s&#237; mismo a una sola causa, de no ser la propia.</p></li><li><p><strong>&#8203;Ambici&#243;n</strong>. Algo que suele asociarse a codicia o ansia de acumulaci&#243;n de riqueza (sobre todo en la juventud temprana), pero que termina estando muy por encima de ello. La perspectiva de dejar una impronta en el mundo va de la mano de la satisfacci&#243;n del ego y, con todo lo pernicioso que resultan, no puedo evitar recitar a Benjamin Franklin: &#191;cu&#225;nto menos habr&#237;a progresado la humanidad sin la desmesurada autoestima de innumerables inventores, creadores, estadistas o empresarios?</p></li><li><p>El acto de <strong>creaci&#243;n</strong> (desde la nada) como algo inherentemente valioso y tremendamente gratificante. El alumbramiento de una marca, una experiencia, un producto, una comunidad de personas... entiendo que vinculados a la b&#250;squeda de eternidad que supongo que viene preconfigurada en el ADN humano.</p><p></p></li></ol><p>Se me ocurre tambi&#233;n que falta aclarar la naturaleza de mi apuesta. En mis primeras aventuras m&#225;s recientes fue sin duda una apuesta de mi vida personal, tiempo libre y, cuando lleg&#243;, vida en familia. Pasar tres d&#237;as fuera de casa cada semana o trabajar domingos y tardes completas durante cinco a&#241;os, sin cobrar salario durante los dos primeros y pasando al m&#237;nimo posible los tres siguientes, no es algo que f&#225;cilmente encuentre compensaci&#243;n en t&#233;rminos materiales por bien que se resuelva la aventura.</p><p>Con el tiempo he aprendido a hacer una apuesta de muy diferente naturaleza sin disminuir un &#225;pice mi implicaci&#243;n. Sencillamente, &#233;sta no circula ya en sentido diametralmente opuesto a mi vida familiar - quiero creer que gracias a las eficiencias obtenidas con la experiencia, y no a un sacrificio de oportunidades.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[¿Por qué hago One2Ones con gente con quien no tengo reporte directo?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Canal CEO - Mollera abierta]]></description><link>https://www.privacycloud.com/p/por-que-hago-one2ones-con-gente-con</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.privacycloud.com/p/por-que-hago-one2ones-con-gente-con</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sergio Maldonado]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 21:23:31 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!pkrk!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2e50e185-a8ab-4f12-8376-1709738f7a20_960x540.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div 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Cuando se confunden ambos deja de fluir la informaci&#243;n de la forma m&#225;s eficiente posible, se forman cuellos de botella (en la gran empresa se llega incluso a &#8220;traficar&#8221; con la informaci&#243;n), y no somos capaces de reaccionar con agilidad en cada momento.</p><p>Hay innumerables casos de fracasos organizativos ocasionados por una confusi&#243;n de ambos conceptos. Aqu&#237; cualquiera tiene que poder disparar una pregunta a cualquier otro, est&#233; donde est&#233; ubicado en el organigrama.</p><p>Con lo cual me quedo realmente a medias respondiendo a la pregunta, pero sigo: a mi me aporta much&#237;simo valor entender las prioridades y recabar las ideas de todo el mundo. Concretamente:&#8203;</p><ul><li><p>En el flujo de ida (yo hablo) puedo comunicar mejor la visi&#243;n de la empresa o situaci&#243;n de lugar en funci&#243;n de la experiencia o punto de partida -informaci&#243;n previa- de cada interlocutor</p></li><li><p>En el flujo de vuelta (yo escucho), descubro cosas que a trav&#233;s del filtro de reporting se puedan haber quedado por el camino con relaci&#243;n a la motivaci&#243;n del equipo. Pero adem&#225;s se suma a ello un premio ocasional: a veces las ideas m&#225;s brillantes est&#225;n en los lugares m&#225;s rec&#243;nditos.</p></li></ul><p>&#191;Riesgos? Muchos. A botepronto:</p><ul><li><p>No es raro que adelante yo informaci&#243;n por un canal informal que podr&#237;a haber tenido un impacto m&#225;s beneficioso de haber fluido antes hacia abajo por su canal de reporting (para empezar, afianzando la credibilidad del gestor al cargo). Esto se soluciona con una alineaci&#243;n previa m&#237;a con dicho gestor, pero sigo pensando que lo perfecto en fr&#237;o es enemigo de lo bueno en caliente, y que vale m&#225;s seguir adelante con el intercambio en toda su torpe espontaneidad que retrasarlo una semana por miedo a mear fuera del tiesto.</p></li><li><p>Al no haber un orden claro en estas conversaciones porque no podr&#237;a hacer otra cosa si mi calendario cubriera a un grupo amplio de personas todos los meses, mis invitaciones siguen un orden igualmente ca&#243;tico, determinado por puro instinto. Esto podr&#237;a provocar la impresi&#243;n de que presto m&#225;s atenci&#243;n a ciertas competencias, aunque para nada es as&#237;.</p></li></ul>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA["Exclusivización" vs. democratización: capacidades vs. impacto productivo]]></title><description><![CDATA[Canal CEO - Mollera abierta]]></description><link>https://www.privacycloud.com/p/exclusivizacion-vs-democratizacion</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.privacycloud.com/p/exclusivizacion-vs-democratizacion</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sergio Maldonado]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 21:21:47 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zngI!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa06aca0d-01a8-4021-93cc-53144ed42406_960x540.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" 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stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><em>(Esta secci&#243;n es una ventana a la forma en que me organizo y pienso destinada al equipo que me acompa&#241;a en un determinado momento, no porque me parezca singular o digno de atenci&#243;n alguna, sino porque resulta a veces m&#225;s sencillo tirar del hilo hacia la fuente para entender algunas pr&#225;cticas y decisiones.)</em></p><p>He hablado ya sobre mis propias prioridades y el estar ON the business, pero toca tambi&#233;n hablar de las del resto del equipo a la luz de la misma idea de impacto productivo o &#8220;leverage&#8221;, que tant&#237;simas veces revisito (vid. Andy Grove, &#8220;High Output Management&#8221; o Peter Drucker, &#8220;The Effective Executive&#8221;).</p><p>Creo en retrospectiva que la clave viene a estar en entender que:</p><ul><li><p>Ninguna persona es mejor que otra, sencillamente se nos ha dotado de diferentes &#8220;superpoderes&#8221;. Algunos est&#225;n realmente ocultos y exigen situaciones extremas para salir a flote, como en los c&#243;mics. Un elenco de cualidades/aptitudes m&#225;s aparentes/vistosas no deber&#237;a conferir gal&#243;n alguno</p></li><li><p>El impacto productivo de cada miembro de un equipo ser&#225; casi siempre diferente al del resto, determinado es una realidad paralela a esta distribuci&#243;n de aptitudes. Es la posici&#243;n de cada uno sobre el &#8220;campo de f&#250;tbol&#8221; (y en el banquillo) la que lo determina en cada momento.</p></li></ul><p>Del primer axioma (si se puede elevar a tal) surge una democratizaci&#243;n general de las cosas (derechos, informaci&#243;n, espacios) y una ausencia general de egos desbocados. Del segundo surge una diferenciaci&#243;n necesaria en virtud del grado existente de impacto productivo. Esta diferenciaci&#243;n justifica decisiones importantes en dedicaci&#243;n de tiempo y asignaci&#243;n de recursos.&#8203;</p><ol><li><p>Dedicaci&#243;n de tiempo</p></li></ol><p>Obviamente todos podr&#237;amos pasar a barrer y fregar las oficinas por las tardes, pero el impacto productivo de una persona en cualquiera de nuestros equipos es (te&#243;ricamente) muy superior al dinero que podemos pagar a alguien m&#225;s especializado en limpiar oficinas y haci&#233;ndolo con mucha mayor destreza.</p><p>Del mismo modo es altamente ineficiente que quien tiene que liderar un proceso (fijando objetivos, estructurando la formaci&#243;n adecuada, etc.) dedique m&#225;s tiempo del imprescindible a su ejecuci&#243;n t&#225;ctica: una hora de su reloj puede formar eficazmente a cinco o diez personas en la articulaci&#243;n de una tarea.</p><p>Otra cosa por supuesto muy distinta es que diferentes niveles de ejecuci&#243;n exijan capacidades m&#225;s o menos avanzadas (el caso en desarrollo de producto), en cuyo caso el impacto productivo viene directamente embebido en la tarea.</p><p>Podemos buscar empat&#237;a entre nosotros de muchas formas, pero sacrificar &#8220;leverage&#8221; o impacto productivo en favor de un instinto primario de solidaridad es un tremendo error. En el que yo he incurrido much&#237;simo, por lo que tengo que recordarme esto a mi mismo constantemente. Cada cual tiene que hacer su trabajo y pedir ayuda con claridad si la necesita.</p><ol start="2"><li><p>Asignaci&#243;n de recursos</p></li></ol><p>Esto sucede igualmente con relaci&#243;n a la asignaci&#243;n de herramientas de trabajo o espacios para su desempe&#241;o. La obsesi&#243;n por democratizar ambos lleva en ocasiones a desequilibrar la balanza entre necesidades y recursos individuales. Los recursos asignados no determinan la importancia de nadie.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mi participación en tareas y procesos compartidos]]></title><description><![CDATA[Canal CEO - Mollera abierta]]></description><link>https://www.privacycloud.com/p/mi-participacion-en-tareas-y-procesos</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.privacycloud.com/p/mi-participacion-en-tareas-y-procesos</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sergio Maldonado]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 21:19:56 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eXks!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd4df6e32-37e1-4913-9c68-1da7129d816b_960x540.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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Y sin embargo sigo acumul&#225;ndolas.</p><p>Los principios de base van como siempre mucho m&#225;s lejos. Aunque muchas veces he hablado internamente de &#8220;impacto productivo&#8221; o &#8220;leverage&#8221;, este dilema se resume por el momento muy bien con una frase de Craig Miller (mi coach hace algunos a&#241;os): <em>If a CEO is IN the business, he is not ON the business.</em></p><p>La realidad es que todos tenemos un instinto b&#225;sico de &#8220;remar a una&#8221; y &#8220;arremangarnos&#8221;. Y que ponernos todos a limpiar los cristales de la oficina, codo con codo, tiene un impacto emocional innegable. Pero por aqu&#237; pierden la fuerza muchos equipos. Y yo he pecado personalmente mucho en este sentido.</p><p>Mi misi&#243;n en la empresa es definir una visi&#243;n final, comunicarla lo mejor posible, encontrar a gente que pueda ejecutarla, y dotar a esta gente instrumentos y recursos. En ocasiones me toca sin duda a&#250;n hacer el trabajo de campo (&#161;seguimos siendo muy pocos!), y es f&#225;cil dejarse llevar o incluso engancharse a ello (desaf&#237;os de r&#225;pida consecuci&#243;n, con sus respectivos &#8220;premios&#8221; emocionales...), pero tiene que ser la excepci&#243;n y nunca la norma. Y usarse de forma did&#225;ctica en la medida de lo posible, de modo que sea transferible y escalable.</p><p>En otras palabras, si me v&#233;is ejecutando en el plano t&#225;ctico pod&#233;is estar seguros de que la organizaci&#243;n no ha alcanzado su punto de m&#237;nima madurez. Es inevitable sin embargo hasta que cada funci&#243;n est&#233; eficazmente asignada a quien puede estructurarla y delegarla.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[¿Cómo organizo mi calendario?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Canal CEO - Mollera abierta]]></description><link>https://www.privacycloud.com/p/como-organizo-mi-calendario</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.privacycloud.com/p/como-organizo-mi-calendario</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sergio Maldonado]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 21:18:37 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ReqY!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffad39757-9760-40ac-af9e-886bd44d74c9_960x540.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><em>(Esta secci&#243;n es una ventana a la forma en que me organizo y pienso destinada al equipo que me acompa&#241;a en un determinado momento, no porque me parezca singular o digno de atenci&#243;n alguna, sino porque resulta a veces m&#225;s sencillo tirar del hilo hacia la fuente para entender algunas pr&#225;cticas y decisiones.)</em></p><p>Mi calendario consens&#250;a el acomodo de *Estados Mentales* (con espacios reservados en busca de la m&#225;xima capacidad de impacto individual) con las agendas de otros miembros del equipo (de cara a tareas de *Liderazgo*) y la demanda externa (inversores, clientes, comunicaci&#243;n, etc.). Esto incluye:</p><ol><li><p>Bloques dedicados a *<strong>Deep Work*</strong> (tareas vinculadas a estados mentales no susceptibles de interrupci&#243;n)</p></li><li><p>Franjas de <strong>asignaci&#243;n rutinaria</strong> (conversaciones internas, delegaci&#243;n)</p></li><li><p><strong>Espacio abierto</strong> a imprevistos sobre los que no tengo control alguno, principalmente consistiendo en echar un cable a quien lo necesite desde el punto de vista de mi aportaci&#243;n individual (en funci&#243;n de mis particulares y nada exclusivos Skills - planificaci&#243;n estrat&#233;gica, ventas, comunicaci&#243;n, legal, capital riesgo). En otras palabras, se trata de misiones puntuales de &#8220;rescate&#8221; y representan las tareas con menor &#8220;leverage&#8221; o eficiencia tiempo-impacto, si bien son inevitables. Este espacio acomoda adem&#225;s el *Task Work*, o tareas vinculadas a estados mentales susceptibles de interrupci&#243;n.</p></li><li><p><strong>Compromisos externos</strong> para el *Desarrollo de negocio*</p><p></p></li></ol><p>Entrando al detalle de cada semana, as&#237; suelen quedar mis d&#237;as por puro h&#225;bito de varios a&#241;os:</p><ul><li><p><strong>Martes y viernes</strong>: concentrando la mayor parte de hitos de *Liderazgo*</p></li><li><p><strong>Mi&#233;rcoles y jueves</strong>: predominio de citas externas en *Desarrollo de negocio*</p></li><li><p><strong>Lunes</strong>: tareas de mayor concentraci&#243;n individual (todas las de *Estrategia y visi&#243;n* y algunas de comunicaci&#243;n).</p></li><li><p><strong>Domingos</strong>: Intento desconectar con compromisos familiares despu&#233;s de comer y dedicar la tarde a enfocar la semana, digerir los hitos principales de la semana precedente y hacer una composici&#243;n general de lugar.</p></li></ul><p>En el particular de la distribuci&#243;n horaria, intento reservar la <strong>primera hora de la ma&#241;ana</strong> de martes a viernes para *Deep Work*, as&#237; como las <strong>primeras horas de la tarde</strong> para interrupciones internas, *Task Work* y compromisos externos, con una interesante batalla por los valiosos bloques (por capacidad de procesamiento y output mental) que van desde las <strong>10 am y la 1 pm</strong> los mi&#233;rcoles y jueves (estando asignados a conversaciones internas y delegaci&#243;n los martes y viernes).</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Estados mentales vs. tareas individuales]]></title><description><![CDATA[Canal CEO - Mollera abierta]]></description><link>https://www.privacycloud.com/p/estados-mentales-vs-tareas-individuales</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.privacycloud.com/p/estados-mentales-vs-tareas-individuales</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sergio Maldonado]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 21:16:02 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!PZyE!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9316d5c0-6d70-424a-9155-de1d2a4f3253_960x540.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!PZyE!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9316d5c0-6d70-424a-9155-de1d2a4f3253_960x540.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!PZyE!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9316d5c0-6d70-424a-9155-de1d2a4f3253_960x540.png 424w, 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de herramientas (Asana, Trello, experimentos varios). Esto requiere tratar por separado la categorizaci&#243;n de tareas y subtareas -con sus importantes marcos temporales- y los 8 *Estados Mentales* a que se asocian:</p><ol><li><p>inspired (creative output)</p></li><li><p>contractual (attention to detail)</p></li><li><p>logic-numbers</p></li><li><p>digest (input)</p></li><li><p>email-ping</p></li><li><p>call</p></li><li><p>brainless</p></li><li><p>errands</p><p></p></li></ol><p>Es por esto que no suele haber tareas de *Estrategia y visi&#243;n* o articulaci&#243;n de ideas en horas posteriores a la comida (malas para ello en mi caso), o que intento evitar responder correos de poco calado en picos de buena capacidad mental.</p><p>Dicho esto, me considero suficientemente humano como para resultarme imposible predecir mis propios estados de concentraci&#243;n/inspiraci&#243;n con la antelaci&#243;n exigida para encajar cada tarea en sus propios plazos de consecuci&#243;n. Y es aqu&#237; donde entran las &#8220;agrupaciones de estados&#8221;, d&#225;ndome la flexibilidad necesaria para pasar de uno a otro seg&#250;n sea necesario. Las m&#225;s gen&#233;ricas y por tanto confusas podr&#237;an ser estas dos que ver&#233;is en mi calendario, adaptando t&#233;rminos muy manidos a mis particularidades individuales:</p><ul><li><p><strong>*Deep Work*</strong> (inspired, digest, contractual)</p></li><li><p><strong>*Task Work*</strong> (logic-numbers, email-ping, brainless)</p></li></ul><p>&#8203;</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[¿Cómo distribuyo mi tiempo?]]></title><description><![CDATA[(Canal CEO - Mollera abierta)]]></description><link>https://www.privacycloud.com/p/como-distribuyo-mi-tiempo</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.privacycloud.com/p/como-distribuyo-mi-tiempo</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sergio Maldonado]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 21:12:35 GMT</pubDate><enclosure 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stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><em>(Esta secci&#243;n es una ventana a la forma en que me organizo y pienso destinada al equipo que me acompa&#241;a en un determinado momento, no porque me parezca singular o digno de atenci&#243;n alguna, sino porque resulta a veces m&#225;s sencillo tirar del hilo hacia la fuente para entender algunas pr&#225;cticas y decisiones.)</em></p><p>Mi tiempo &#8220;extra-familiar&#8221; est&#225; proyectado de la siguiente manera ahora mismo:</p><ul><li><p>80% La Gran Aventura (ahora, y hasta 20XX, nuestro proyecto en ciernes)</p></li><li><p>10%: Gesti&#243;n patrimonial, legal, financiera (inversiones externas, lastre asociado a la acumulaci&#243;n de compromisos inherente a una cierta edad)</p></li><li><p>10%: Desarrollo personal</p></li></ul><p>A su vez, el tiempo dedicado a la empresa se divide mayoritariamente en tres bloques, con independencia de su estructuraci&#243;n en proyectos, tareas o asignaciones rutinarias:&#8203;</p><ul><li><p>*Liderazgo* (conversaciones internas, delegaci&#243;n, acompa&#241;amiento y escucha)</p></li><li><p>*Estrategia y visi&#243;n* (decisiones clave, digesti&#243;n de informaci&#243;n imprescindible, exploraci&#243;n e intercambio de ideas)</p></li><li><p>*Desarrollo de negocio* (ventas, marketing, legal, comunicaci&#243;n, articulaci&#243;n de ideas).</p></li></ul><p>El primer bloque suele a continuaci&#243;n desembocar en asignaciones rutinarias (espacios de tiempo predefinidos y constantes), al tiempo que los otros dos se reparten el resto del calendario en base a proyectos y tareas.</p><p>De puertas afuera, y desde el punto de vista del impacto de cada minuto dedicado sobre el negocio, toda dedicaci&#243;n se vincula de forma aislada o conjunta a uno o varios *Pilares B&#225;sicos de Actividad* (<em>Funding</em>, <em>Full Value Prop</em>, <em>Single Brand View</em>, <em>Stellar Team</em>).</p><p>Resulta en cualquier caso natural que con el progreso de la empresa y una mayor capacidad de delegaci&#243;n los dos primeros bloques avancen paulatinamente en detrimento del tercero.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mi puesto físico de trabajo]]></title><description><![CDATA[Canal CEO - Mollera abierta]]></description><link>https://www.privacycloud.com/p/mi-puesto-fisico-de-trabajo</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.privacycloud.com/p/mi-puesto-fisico-de-trabajo</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sergio Maldonado]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2025 21:27:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure 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En uno de ellos un CEO racionalizaba su &#8220;retorno al despacho&#8221; con argumentos brillantes. En otro se desmitificaba el valor del &#8220;open floor&#8221; toda vez que cada empleado hab&#237;a reemplazado el cub&#237;culo de anta&#241;o por unos auriculares de cancelaci&#243;n de sonido.</p><p>Como le ocurr&#237;a al citado autor, durante a&#241;os he renunciado a contar con un despacho propio en favor de interacciones &#8220;espont&#225;neas&#8221; y una sensaci&#243;n de &#8220;remar juntos&#8221;.</p><p>La realidad es que, con la mayor parte de mi tiempo volcado en tutelaje o reuniones internas, llamadas, y tareas de alta concentraci&#243;n (naturaleza propia de estar &#8220;ON the business&#8221;), termino acampando en una sala de reuniones durante horas o d&#237;as enteros. Mi alternativa, a falta de m&#225;s espacios compartimentados, es el uso de espacios en remoto convenientemente ubicados y preparados para recibir a otros miembros del equipo o colaboradores externos.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[How about law firms becoming software providers (instead of being replaced by them)? (Part III)]]></title><description><![CDATA[How Agentic AI brokers peace. A new service is born.]]></description><link>https://www.privacycloud.com/p/how-about-law-firms-becoming-software-6a7</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.privacycloud.com/p/how-about-law-firms-becoming-software-6a7</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sergio Maldonado]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2025 17:09:17 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2Ok1!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F01b12c52-d553-41d1-9125-07d83fc727b8_1440x810.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2Ok1!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F01b12c52-d553-41d1-9125-07d83fc727b8_1440x810.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div 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The image above is AI-free as well, retrieved from Canva&#8217;s photo repository.)</em></p><h2>How Agentic AI brokers peace</h2><p>How does this dance between probabilistic and deterministic worlds work?</p><p>Firms need market-proven processes specific to each use case. At data collection or governance level they will rely on taxonomies and schemas. At storage and access level they are likely to sit on top of databases and similar scaffolding.</p><p>Information retrieval, classification, association, or research tasks will benefit from the use of LLMs, but they cannot discard specific references to real-world facts, and context.</p><p>Much of a law firm&#8217;s output boils down to document generation in the form of policies, claims, motions, memos, etc. This seems to be the perfect element in which generative AI thrives, but it still requires controls or expert reviews. After all, wild creativity is the very nature of language models, and &#8220;hallucinations&#8221; are an essential part of them (i.e., a feature, not a bug).</p><p>If there is one thing that we have seen proliferate successfully in professional circles, it is short-leashed versions of LLM chatbots in which experts in a particular field limit the scope of the conversation to a treasured collection of proprietary documentation. This has come in the form of &#8220;custom GPTs&#8221; projects hoping to prevent OpenAI or Google from dumping what remains of their human spark -or hard-earned command of the discipline- into the wider knowledge graph. Both the limits of reasoning models and the inconvenience of adequate prompting would otherwise become the last standing moat for such experts.</p><p>Curation and fencing has in this case acted as the skeleton that gives sense and balance to the magic muscle that quickly powers it all.</p><p>Agentic AI is a much more versatile and flexible version of the same balance, providing wider spaces for words (and the thoughts, concepts, or associations that they convey) to play with themselves freely while keeping the necessary structure in the form of a deterministic workflow.</p><p>An entire task (or &#8220;job to be done&#8221;) can now be broken down into an interplay between distracted exploration and progress towards a goal. We keep the partiture and respect the basic chords, but allow the jamming along the way. But what does this turn the practice of law into?</p><h2>A new service is born</h2><p>And so we arrive at two possible versions of the law firm of the future, most likely coexisting.</p><p>Let&#8217;s imagine that five years have gone by (a timeframe that humans or teams are actually able to digest, regardless of the pace of development of available models, infrastructure, and energy supply).</p><p>We will have the traditional law firm that would have managed to escape the large AI labs and all of their &#8220;wrappers&#8221; -i.e., commoditization. They would have put together their own solutions on top of open models which they themselves host (perhaps those publicly offered by various governments like Switzerland or Singapore). They would have turned their processes into software and workflows through existing tools and by leveraging internal IT teams, thus becoming a software-development company. But automation is only partial, with tools primarily tasked with saving time and the human pyramid of well-paid professionals mostly intact.</p><p>To this we will add a new type of law firm which could very well replace what recently has proliferated as &#8220;Alternative Legal Service Providers&#8221; or &#8220;NewLaw&#8221;. It will serve more agile, cost-conscious customers (themselves very well positioned to replace the larger brands on the back of the same disruptive wave). This new breed will have rejected the billable hours and moved on to a subscription service, eventually turning into a hybrid software-services firm. It will have the same capabilities of any SaaS when it comes to orchestrating agentic workflows on the back of reusable components, but most of those components will remain proprietary, bearing the signature and relevance that only lawyers (backed by professional bodies, monopolizing access to the courts) can provide.</p><p>Imagine a privacy-focused law firm that is able to instantly assess risk in the current deployment of hundreds of AI-powered data processors or independent controllers across a company&#8217;s large collection of digital properties, services, and business units. Give it a few minutes, and that assessment can be translated into specific policy changes, vendor reviews or technical change requests. Give it a slightly different context and it could answer a potential claim and quickly decide whether settling is an option and at which price range.</p><p>The pieces are easy to understand for the best lawyers in the field. Real-world input enters the workflow at different stages, subject to certain conditions, programmatically. Most crucially, it is the things that make each customer unique that can be dealt with by the most creative building blocks: those that anyone else could have put together, but that only these experts can set in the right direction.</p><p>Exciting times.</p>]]></content:encoded></item></channel></rss>