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▶ 73:20 · $REMINI · Remini AI photo app acquired pre-ChatGPT, now benefits from generative AI wave
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Invest Like The Best

The Playbook on Buying and Running Companies Forever

2025-11-04 · 6 company · 5 thematic
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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.

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“We talked about Remini earlier, which is a an app that you bought before ChatGPT or that I'm sure has benefited tremendously from from the advent of AI.”
—luca ferrari
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