Inside Bending Spoons: Finding Talent, Leveraging AI & Driving Operational Excellence | Luca Ferrari
Sep 13, 2026 · 2:01:29
Luca Ferrari, co-founder of Bending Spoons, argues the company aspires to build "the best company there ever was" by favoring raw talent over experience. He explains how a centralized talent team screens candidates using over 100 signals, why hiring managers get trust instead of bonuses, and why the company abolished job titles. He describes extreme ownership and saturating capacity—giving people more work than they can complete—and a 50-plus tool operating system that lets him run Evernote, bought for about $200 million, with 20 people. The group reaches roughly $3 billion in run rate revenue; Ferrari says it buys to hold and transform, never to sell, and bids high and firm, trusting logic over blindly following data. He also explains why Bending Spoons is going public.
