My conversation with Luca Ferrari, co-founder of Bending Spoons

My conversation with Luca Ferrari, co-founder of Bending Spoons.

0:00 Fanatical founders building enduring companies

1:23 Luca on building the best company there ever was

4:22 The origins of Bending Spoons

5:47 Talent and why experience is overrated

15:05 Turning hiring into a science

23:30 Why Bending Spoons doesn't use bonuses

29:26 Why everyone in the company has the same job

42:41 On finding great potential and saturating their capacity

49:50 Insisting on a culture of extreme ownership

59:28 Luca's principle of relentless simplification

1:05:15 Why Bending Spoons doesn't use job titles

1:10:27 The proprietary operating system behind Bending Spoons

1:17:07 Why Bending Spoons isn't private equity

1:19:32 How Bending Spoons acquired & transformed Evernote

1:28:01 How Bending Spoons uses AI

1:40:42 How Bending Spoons thinks about capital allocation

1:43:50 Why procrastination without laziness is good

1:46:46 Operational excellence is not optional

1:49:07 How Bending Spoons negotiates acquisitions

1:54:47 Logic over numbers

Includes paid partnerships.

Video source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCbHnlpwZf0