One of the most frequent questions I get from journalists during interviews is "how do you have time to do everything you do? You run Fon, you are an active angel investor in so many companies, you teach at IE, speak at conferences, run your foundation,...

A couple of years ago, I decided to move to Spain. It was here that I started Jazztel, now one of the country's largest telcos, Ya.com and most recently Fon, the world's largest WiFi community.

My motivation for moving to Spain was that this is a great...

Friends outside of Spain have been asking me about the ongoing movement that has become known as #spanishrevolution. Here's the summary of what this movement is about:

People have become increasingly frustrated by the many problems in Spain: Over 20% unemployment rate and over 30% youth unemployment rate, incompetent...

Fon's WiFi network is the largest in Japan. We have over a million hotspots of which over half are on at the moment. The Fon network is free to those who share WiFi (known as Foneros) and other users pay. Given the current emergency in Japan, and the failure...

It is becoming common for people to say they don't like WikiLeaks because they can't stand Assange. This is misleading. Few sympathize with Assange as a character. Most of us, myself included, have never met with him. But the issue here is not Assange, his hair or whether he does,...

Egyptians fought bravely, ousted Mubarak and gave power to the military. But it turns out that USA effectively controls the Egyptian Army. It financed it, trained it and should it go into conflict with it, it can easily defeat it. So Egyptian people, whether they are aware of this or...

While I am sorry for the repression and the people who have died in Tunisia, I am excited at the unexpected overthrow of Tunisian dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali by its own people.

I have visited the country a few times as well as many other Arab/Muslim...

I am not a friend of Mark Zuckerberg. Still, I spent enough time with him in private and public to say that in my opinion, The Social Network is an accurate, though not factual representation, of who Mark Zuckerberg is. Yes, the movie is a caricature, but sometimes caricatures do...

This morning I read that a great number of Muslims believe that 9/11 was a conspiracy created by the US government to justify the invasion of Iraq. This worried me. How could so many Muslims be so wrong?

But then I thought that the U.S. government and some EU...

This video, which I shot this morning in the outskirts of Gstaad, shows how well cows live in Switzerland. And it shouldn't surprise you, since in Switzerland, according to the Becker-Posner Blog, 68% of farmer's income comes in the form of a government subsidy. Is this a problem?

People frequently tell me that I should not disclose so much information about myself as it could potentially be used by criminals, kidnappers and the like to harm me or my family. Interestingly, it is mostly my German friends who tend to argue this point. Germans, as Americans, seem to...

Al Qaeda's actions on 9/11 2001 changed America's view of the world. After the terrorist attacks the Bush administration came to the conclusion that America as a whole was under attack from the Middle East and that the solution was to move that war away from home into the Muslim...

The Iraqi and Afghan military interventions have caused the death of over a million people, have cost trillions of dollars, have greatly weakened the US military, have increased the budget deficit, have hurt the dollar, have resulted in much greater terrorism in the Middle East (now expanding into Pakistan), and...

I am a pilot. Not a professional pilot, as in real life I am a CEO of Fon a tech company. But in my spare time I became a pilot and fly a small jet, a Citation Jet. During my training as a pilot I was shocked to find...

The news of Andrew McLaughlin's departure from Google to work as Deputy Chief Technology Officer of the Obama administration just came out in the New York Times. The article mentions that there are critics who believe that this move will benefit Google as a company. I have a response...

If you still think about Spain as a conservative, Catholic country you can change your mind. Spain is one of the most liberal and secular countries on the planet now, up there with The Netherlands. Gambling, prostitution, are either legal or losely regulated. Even downloading movies and music is legal...

So far I have had 3 Kindles. Two came as a gift (one from Jeff Bezos). They did not last much in my hands. Alexa my eldest daughter got the first one and Isabella, my second daughter, the second one. They read more books than I do, they deserved them....

What I like about Joshua Cooper Ramo's book, the Age of the Unthinkable, is that it it starts with the premise that complexity in world affairs is here to stay. Maybe it is Joshua's background in physics that has made him see foreign policy as an area where Heisenberg's

I live in Spain. I used to live in America, Manhattan to be precise. I moved to Spain because this country has an economy the size of California but interestingly people here both work less and worry less than in California, not a small achievement. While in Spain I built...