Friday Wrap-Up: A President's View on Global Power and Learning from Big Tech

Hi everyone and welcome back to this week's episode of Friday wrap-up. I'm Still Marteskohr. Nikolai Tangen. Where are you this week, Nikolai? Well, I've been on the on the west coast of the US, Seattle, San Francisco, so I had a very interesting time here.

For sure. Okay, so we will come back to that in this episode and then we will talk about this week's podcast guest which was Alexander Stubb, president of Finland, and this is an extremely interesting episode. So first off, Stubb has become a really influential voice in geopolitics. And I would say he surely punches above his weight.

How has he achieved that? Well, it is uh first of all because he's a very uh you know smart, uh, educated, articulated, and uh clever person. Um in Finland they split the the jobs so that the president is looking after the foreign policy and the defence policy and the prime minister is taking all all internal kind of matters. So I guess as a president you have uh, you know, you've got quite a bit of time to spend on the, you know, with uh with the other foreign leaders.

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