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...

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...

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...

I have lived in forty countries. I have sat in boardrooms from Beirut to Boulder, coached executives on five continents, and watched deals close and collapse across cultures I spent years learning to read. And the single most useful thing I carry from my years growing...

In 1968, a barista at Bar Basso in Milan reached for the gin and grabbed Prosecco by error. He made the drink, served it, and called it sbagliato. Wrong. The client drank it. Came back for another asking un altro giro (another round). The mistake never left the menu,...

The Analog Is Coming Back in a Big Way — And Why Italy Saw It Coming First Let me tell you something Italy put in my bones long before I could understand it. The most powerful thing you can give to another person is your full attention. Not your calendar. Not your...

Every business event I’ve attended in the past two years follows the same tired script. Someone puts up a slide about AI. Someone else start talking about data pipelines. Everybody claps. Nobody says what they are really thinking: we’ve built powerful machines and...

Ten years ago, technology corporations spoke a common language: unicorns and billion-dollar valuations. Reaching a billion-dollar valuation was an impressive milestone. Entrepreneurs and VC alike talked about 10X growth and when you joined the Unicorn club, you were...

Since its launch, the Internet has been a place where people talked to people. Platforms like Reddit captured that early promise particularly well. Long before creator economies and algorithmic feeds dominated attention, Reddit worked because people shared unfiltered...

As the saying goes, “The best way to end something is to starve it,” a line shared by creators like Llewelyn Adams and Nutan Poonia. Most people do the opposite. They over react, argue, defend themselves, and pour more energy into the very thing that is draining them....