The ‘Echo Chamber’ Effect: How to Prevent Groupthink in Your Executive Team
To prevent groupthink in an executive team, you need repeatable decision habits that make dissent safe, data harder to filter, and assumptions easier to challenge
- Entrepreneur · Innovator · Investor
Alex Clug
From West Point to a US$1 billion NASDAQ listing… and a few adventures in between.
Founder & CEO · The Dolphin Group LLC
US$1B+
Nasdaq listing
valuation (SSII)
5
Industries spanned
25+
Years leading
companies
7
Podcast episodes &
counting
01 Ventures
Built across five industries
Medical robotics, mining, telecom, fintech and private equity — taking complex operations from founding to exit.
Mission first — then backward-plan every step. It works for an army engineering unit, a surgical robot, and a NASDAQ listing alike.
- Alex (Alexandre) Clug
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- Autonomous Frontiers
Innovation & leadership, in conversation
7 episodes on robotic surgery, startup growth, capital strategy and leadership under pressure — hosted by Alex Clug.
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- Giving back
Education and opportunity, funded every year
True success is measured by the opportunities we create for others — through the annual Alex Clug Scholarship and as Trustee of the Barry F. Cohen Foundation.
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- Writing
Latest thinking
Essays on strategy, medical robotics, mining and leadership.
The ‘Capital Efficiency’ Myth: Why Bootstrapping Isn’t Always the Right Answer for Deep Tech
Deep tech capital efficiency is often misunderstood because deep tech companies don’t fail the same way software startups fail: they usually need years of Research
Telepresence in Healthcare: Top 5 Robots for Remote Care
You enable faster, more consistent, and more scalable patient interaction when you integrate telepresence robots in healthcare. These systems extend your physical presence into patient
7 Robotics Platforms Accelerating Medical Innovation
Robotics platforms are accelerating medical innovation by delivering surgical precision, streamlining diagnostics, enabling personalized prosthetics, optimizing orthopedic procedures, and advancing clinical training and research. In
How to Choose the Right Surgical Robot for Your Hospital
You choose the right surgical robot by matching your hospital’s clinical priorities, surgeon expertise, and operational capacity with proven robotic systems built for your specific
Autonomous Medical Robotics 101 – Revolutionizing Surgery
Welcome to the launch of Autonomous Frontiers: Innovation & Leadership with Alex Clug. In this first episode, “Autonomous Medical Robotics 101 – Revolutionizing Surgery,” Alex