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TBPN

MetaCloud, Bending Spoons IPO with Founder Luca Ferrari, Fabel Freed, TML Cooking

2026-07-01 · 10 company · 9 thematic
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john coogan

Co-host of TBPN, a live technology and business show focused on startups, venture capital and Silicon Valley.

luca ferrari

Luca Ferrari is the CEO and co-founder of Bending Spoons, a Milan-based technology company that acquires and operates digital businesses forever. He previously co-founded Evertale (failed startup), worked at McKinsey to fund his co-founders, and has built Bending Spoons into a $1.3B revenue compounder with a unique buy-and-hold-forever model.

jordan

Co-host who shares Apple design reactions and WWDC observations from team members.

shub shinha
wayne tang
elliot pence
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Winner-take-most micromobility requires vertical integration and unit economics discipline
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Agentic platforms automating full patient journey seeing explosive pull from provider groups
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Self-hosted narrow models + orchestrator enable 90% AI code gen at near-zero marginal cost
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