Inside Bending Spoons: Finding Talent, Leveraging AI & Driving Operational Excellence | Luca Ferrari
David Senra talks with Luca Ferrari, CEO of Bending Spoons, about how the company acquires and transforms apps using a small team, unconventional hiring, and proprietary internal tools.
The gist
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Bending Spoons uses 100+ signals from CVs, emails, and how candidates treat support staff to evaluate talent without relying on long track records.
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A centralized 50-person task force runs the same internal tools across every acquisition, letting the company scale businesses from $100M to $400M+ revenue.
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Ferrari prefers hiring young graduates with high ability and extreme ownership over experienced executives who may have normalized low standards or learned to play politics.
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Bending Spoons deliberately removes entire features, job titles, and processes rather than optimizing them, placing the burden of proof on anyone who wants to add complexity.
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