I build and fund companies. Since 2018 that has been Fabrica. Land still changes hands the way it did a century ago, on paper, through intermediaries, over weeks. Fabrica makes a parcel something you can buy, sell or borrow against online, in minutes. The technology is the easy half. The rest is property law, jurisdiction by jurisdiction.
Long before that, in the nineties, I was a teenager in Italy writing software for the Commodore Amiga. It sold on CD-ROM across Europe, and I wrote for the Amiga magazines on the side. Some of it is still online, which is the best and worst thing about the internet.
In 2000 I founded Milano Tonight, later tonight.eu, and ran it for about a decade without investors. It answered one question, where should we go tonight, with reviews written by people who had actually been there. By 2005 la Repubblica, one of Italy's major newspapers, wrote that many people treated it as a sacred text for planning a night out. It grew to sixteen cities across Europe, years before Yelp arrived in Italy. Its listings fed Google Maps through a partnership with Google, and in 2009 it came preinstalled on Samsung phones in Italy.
Then three years at Vodafone Italy, launching new products and starting a program that put Italian startups in front of Silicon Valley. Scouting for Vodafone Ventures brought me to California. I liked it here, left the corporate world, and went back to building companies. The first was phone.id, which let you sign in anywhere with just your phone number. It never found its market. The second is Fabrica.
I live in San Francisco with my family. Before kids there were small planes, motorcycles and scuba diving.