by Andrea Zanon | Jul 7, 2026 | Andrea Zanon
Doing nothing, on purpose, is a skill the rest of us forgot Walk through an Italian town in the early afternoon and you might think something has gone wrong. The shops are shut. The streets are empty. In the one trattoria still open, a fork turns slowly against the...
by Andrea Zanon | Jun 6, 2026 | Andrea Zanon
Markets reward people who move first. This is well know in investment and entrepreneurship, particularly in tech. We know it in deal flow. We know it in the race to plant a flag before the crowd arrives. Yet there is one first mover advantage sitting out there that...
by Andrea Zanon | May 4, 2026 | Andrea Zanon
Every executive reading this has a communication stack: email, Slack, Teams, WhatsApp, LinkedIn messages, Zoom invites. What almost none of them have is a daily phone call. Americans send more than 2 trillion text messages annually. US smartphone users communicate via...
by Andrea Zanon | Mar 26, 2026 | Andrea Zanon
I have lived in forty countries. I have sat in boardrooms from Beirut to Boulder, coached executives on five continents, and watched deals close and collapse across cultures I spent years learning to read. And the single most useful thing I carry from my years growing...
by Andrea Zanon | Jan 22, 2026 | Andrea Zanon
Ten years ago, technology corporations spoke a common language: unicorns and billion-dollar valuations. Reaching a billion-dollar valuation was an impressive milestone. Entrepreneurs and VC alike talked about 10X growth and when you joined the Unicorn club, you were...
by Andrea Zanon | Nov 6, 2025 | Andrea Zanon
In the age of miniaturization and microchips, Italy has decided to go big, very big. The country’s aerospace industry is helping build what will soon become the largest aircraft ever constructed, a machine so vast it could carry entire wind turbine blades inside its...
