Luca Ferrari, Bending Spoons CEO: The $40K Origin Story, Buying Product-Market Fit & Why Private Equity Can't Compete
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Luca Ferrari, Bending Spoons CEO: The $40K Origin Story, Buying Product-Market Fit & Why Private Equity Can't Compete

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 23, 202625 min
  • Interview
  • Business & money

(0:00) Luca Ferrari joins the Besties! (1:56) Crashing an AI startup, the $40,000 restart & buying product market fit (4:59) The in-house tech stack, shrinking the teams & the 10 out of 10 standard (9:55) Debt as an accelerant, what happens if rates rise & who else is bidding (14:58) Inside the deal desk: what gets acquired, why they don't build & the founder question (20:22) Building a tech giant out of Milan, Europe's talent pool & the outsider advantage Thanks to our partners for making this possible! IREN is a vertically integrated AI Cloud platform, delivering d...

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You are the reason that NASDAQ exists. They went from zero to one billion dollars in revenue in just ten years. Bending Spoons CEO Luca Ferrari. We have never lost a bid before.

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Well AOL has a new parent again. Milan-based tech company Bending Spoons announced it will buy ticketing platform Eventbrite. Bending Spoons is stirring up the market. They go from fixing one zombie app to reviving 20 of them.

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Half a billion people use our products. We're trying to build a generational company. Please welcome Luca Ferrari. Hey, here he is.

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