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50+ acquisitions. $1.3B in revenue. 0 companies sold. Bending Spoons CEO Luca Ferrari reveals the 3 main ways they differ from private equity: 1. They have never sold a material business. “We intend to own & operate these businesses forever. PE, generally these are funds. They raise money from 3rd parties, from limited partners & then they hold the companies for on average 5 years, & then sell them.”
BREAKING: Bending Spoons 🥄 is Eating Silicon Valley FULL INTERVIEW CEO Luca Ferrari (@luke10ferrari) $BSP is quickly becoming tech’s buyer of choice. They look at 100s of companies a year & buy 5-10. Airtable, AOL, Vimeo, Eventbrite, Evernote, WeTransfer, Tractive, & now Miro under agreement. Why? @bendingspoons spent a decade building 50+ proprietary tools in-house. Every company they acquire gets rebuilt on top of them.. & it's working. Spoon Stats: › 500M+ monthly active users › 9M+ paying customers › ~$100M/year in est. savings from internal technology › 800K job applications (~286 hires in 2025) › 50+ acquisitions › 50+ proprietary internal tools › 3,000+ experiments last year › 95% of code written by AI › 2–3X more productive, according to Luca Part II of our Bending Spoons series, from Milan HQ Check out Part I: HQ Tour with Luca + Sit down interviews w/ Co-Founders Francesco & Matteo, + GM of AOL Valentina 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒 (00:00) Luca Ferrari, Co-Founder & CEO, Bending Spoons (00:45) The deal that broke the Internet (03:41) Why Silicon Valley overspends on Hype (07:35) Half a billion monthly active users (16:17) What makes a company worth buying (20:07) Inside the platform powering every product (32:16) Debunking the Private Equity comparison (38:23) $4 Million in revenue, per employee (43:44) The secret to zero churn (47:40) The one value that defines Bending Spoons (51:52) The AI tool every Spooner uses (57:58) Going Independent from the AI labs (59:02) Have we actually reached AGI? (1:08:05) The AI question nobody's asking (1:12:54) Luca's next big bet