· Thoughts
Teachers call you “messy” as a kid; you still carry it as an adult. Why many limiting patterns can be interrupted—in business, sport, and growth—and the real work is uninstalling the wrong scripts.
- Values
- Entrepreneurship
- Family
- Strategy
Thoughts
Thoughts on entrepreneurship, product, and technology. Each post is available in Italian and English.
· Thoughts
You can’t truly split life and work: meaning, stress, people, body. Maybe the point isn’t whether we work to live or live to work—but whether the life we’re building still holds up while we’re on the job.
- Work
- Values
- Health
- Strategy
· Thoughts
Why being overly picky about connection requests can narrow your world—people at different stages, and a reel-sized reminder not to judge the person by the car they arrived in.
- Entrepreneurship
- Strategy
- Team
- Values
· Thoughts
Seeing the world as the client, the colleague, the person across the table: expectations, proportional value, and why—without confusing hours with impact—real outcomes are what matter.
- Entrepreneurship
- Team
- Values
- Strategy
· Thoughts
Why the books that last speak less about today’s world than about human nature—and why Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich (1937) is one I wish I’d read earlier: first in the mind, then in reality.
- Values
- Vision
- Entrepreneurship
- Strategy
· Thoughts
Years of building without this clarity: why even a healthy business stays risky, and how I chose to build income and assets beyond the operating business—without mixing company cash with personal strategy.
- Entrepreneurship
- Strategy
- Values
- Bootstrap
· Thoughts
Beyond aesthetics: sleep, food, recovery, and daily movement as a lever for clarity, balance, and decision quality — at 45, after more than twenty-five years of training.
- Health
- Performance
- Routine
- Values
· Thoughts
I don’t quite see myself as an Entrepreneur with a capital E — yet I’ve built two real companies. From scooters to eBay to Flash: what stays when you ask if you were born this way or became it.
- Entrepreneurship
- Family
- Values
- Bootstrap
· Thoughts
Nearly ten million people, GDP at the top of the EU table: Lombardy as an engine. Beyond pizza and mandolins—automotive, design, food, tech, and the will to build.
- Entrepreneurship
- Strategy
- Vision
- Italy
- Work
· Thoughts
Balance and autonomy: first the foundation that lets you choose, then the rest. On the paradox of builders who don’t stop—not because they must, but because they enjoy the game.
- Entrepreneurship
- Work
- Values
- Strategy
· Thoughts
Flying back to Cape Town from Mauritius, one in-flight film surfaced a familiar pattern—power, ego, family: why the real threat to a brand isn’t always the market, but what happens inside the company.
- Entrepreneurship
- Strategy
- Family
- Values
· Thoughts
After an exit, the hardest part isn’t closing the deal—it’s wondering if you’ll build another one. Bootstrap, mistakes, Syncrogest and Syncronika—and the 2014 brochure.
- Entrepreneurship
- Bootstrap
- SaaS
- Syncronika
- Syncrogest
- Exit
- Team
· Thoughts
Early hours are for clarity and deep work: no calls, fasted gym, sleep without compromise. And why the morning starts the night before.
- Work
- Performance
- Sleep
- Routine
- Productivity
· Thoughts
Remote by design: trust, autonomy, and a distributed team across Cape Town, Milan, Bologna, Valencia, and London — when remote work is culture, not just a lifestyle.
- Remote work
- Team
- Entrepreneurship
· Thoughts
Parents running a bakery, teenage jobs, what sacrifice taught me — and how those values carried into building companies, up to today.
- Entrepreneurship
- Family
- Work
- Values
· Thoughts
Sleep, clarity, and decisions: what changed when I stopped glorifying sleepless nights—reading, data, and a life without alcohol.
- Sleep
- Health
- Entrepreneurship
- Performance
· Thoughts
From moving to the UK to closing the Ferrara office: remote work before it was trendy, trade-offs, and how we meet in Milan today.
- Syncronika
- Remote work
- Team