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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

20VC: Bending Spoons: The Most Untold Success Story in Startups: Lessons Scaling to 500M Downloads, $360M in Reported 2023 Sales and a $2.55BN Valuation... Bootstrapped with Luca Ferrari, Co-Founder and CEO @ Bending Spoons

Mar 15, 2024
Learn from Luca Ferrari about bootstrapping Bending Spoons to 100M monthly users, acquiring Evernote, pricing assets effectively, and optimizing talent for growth. Explore Luca's journey from McKinsey to $2BN founder, hiring strategies, and future aspirations in the untold startup success story.
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Quick takeaways

  • Humility is crucial in entrepreneurship to avoid arrogance and learn from past failures.
  • Shift in strategy from building new products to acquiring successful ventures is key to Bending Spoons' success evolution.

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Learning from Past Mistakes: Humility in Entrepreneurship

Recognizing the importance of humility in entrepreneurship is highlighted as the speaker emphasizes the need to avoid arrogance. Past failures due to overconfidence in predicting market needs led to a new approach focused on improving products already proving market fit.

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