by Andrea Zanon | Aug 12, 2026 | Andrea Zanon
How a Distressed Debt Firm Stole Inter Milan, Built an Empire, and Is Now Deciding Whether to Sell the Crown Jewel of Italian Football A Club on Its Knees May 2021. The San Siro sits half-empty, Europe is still locked down, and Inter Milan, freshly victorious of Serie...
by Andrea Zanon | Aug 5, 2026 | Andrea Zanon
The social code no app will teach you, and every local already knows I have watched it happen dozens of times in Venice, Roma and in Lake Garda. A line forms outside a busy trattoria, five or six tourists standing single file at the door, waiting for someone to talk...
by Andrea Zanon | Jul 7, 2026 | Andrea Zanon
Walk through an Italian town in the early afternoon and you might think something has gone wrong. The shops are shut. The streets are empty. In the one trattoria still open, a fork turns slowly against the side of a plate, in no hurry to get anywhere. Nothing is...
by Andrea Zanon | Jun 6, 2026 | Andrea Zanon
Markets reward people who move first. This is well know in investment and entrepreneurship, particularly in tech. We know it in deal flow. We know it in the race to plant a flag before the crowd arrives. Yet there is one first mover advantage sitting out there that...
by Andrea Zanon | May 4, 2026 | Andrea Zanon
Every executive reading this has a communication stack: email, Slack, Teams, WhatsApp, LinkedIn messages, Zoom invites. What almost none of them have is a daily phone call. Americans send more than 2 trillion text messages annually. US smartphone users communicate via...
