Alain Guillot
Life, Leadership, and Money Matters
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Success and Luck: Why Both Matter
Discover how success and luck work together. Learn why persistence, hard work, and opportunity create lasting success. Read the full story.
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Debt Jubilee: How Ancient Mesopotamia Reset the Economy
Discover how the ancient debt jubilee canceled crushing loans and saved Mesopotamian economies.
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How Writing Was Invented for Business: The First Accountants
Discover how writing was invented for business, accounting, and trade in ancient Mesopotamia—and why it became one of history’s greatest entrepreneurial innovations.
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The Agricultural Revolution: How Farming Created the First Entrepreneurs
Discover how the Agricultural Revolution created surplus, specialization, and trade—laying the foundation for entrepreneurship and modern civilization.
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Stock Market Weekly Recap — July 20–24, 2026
in Stock MarketThe week began with optimism but ended with investors confronting three powerful realities: higher oil prices, rising geopolitical risk, and the staggering cost of the AI revolution. By Friday’s close, all three major U.S. indexes finished lower: While new tariffs from the Trump administration made headlines, they were overshadowed by…
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Middlemen: The Hidden Heroes of the Economy
in BusinessDiscover the history of middlemen, why they create value, why the internet didn’t eliminate them, and how AI will transform their future.