Garrett Martin Johnston, the founder and CEO of Epiphany, was born
in Dublin, Ireland in 1968. Following university degrees in Economics and
International Commerce in Dublin, Garrett has built a successful career in strategic
marketing, sales, customer service, customer experience and commercial strategy,
working in 14 different countries around the world, covering both the advanced
markets of Europe and North America as well as frontier/emerging markets including
India, Caribbean/Central America, South Africa and Russia/ex-USSR countries.

Garrett has been responsible and accountable for annual revenues in the $US 10
billion range. He has held multi-year VP and C-level roles in companies such as
PwC, CenturyLink, Alcatel-Lucent, Cap Gemini, Ernst & Young, Telenor, Avaya,
MTS, X5 Retail Group, Digicel and Rosnano MedInvest.

Garrett has built up deep expertise and knowledge in the following industry sectors: Telecoms, IT/Software, Retail (online, offline, omnichannel), Automotive/Transport, Pharma/Biotech and Venture Capital/Private Equity.

Garrett has encyclopaedically knowledge in many areas and speaks fluently 10 languages.
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00:32 - Introduction
04:30 - About Irish culture and forgetting the native language
06:16 - Island compared to Ireland
07:55 - Smart strategy decision – Trans Atlantic fibre optics via Island
08:55 - Growing up in Ireland
09:50 - Which language is the best
10:42 - Who is going to make 21 century
11:20 - Value of the economy is in the depth of soul
14:37 - Stalin’s idea during the Second World War
17:19 - Energy is the best unit to assess civilization
17:39 - Kardashov 1
18:35 - Kardashov 2
18:40 - Kardashov 3
19:27 - Yuri Milner in search for extra terrestrial
20:21 - Communist experiments
21:20 - Fully automated luxury Communism
26:35 - Strategy must be an answer to the right questions
27:54 - Banks must make their customers wealthier
32:42 - The right Objectives, Mission vs Strategy
36:30 - Cost of Money and Planning horizon
39:50 - Rethinking business model
42:46 - Era of learning is just starting
46:40 - Covid 19 and new thinking
48:00 - Kondratieff ways
49:26 - Changes brought by Corona 19
50:20 - Need for changes
53:44 - The best days of humanity are ahead of us