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All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg · Wednesday, September 23, 2026

Bending Spoons' First Acquisition: A $10,000 Keyboard Personalization App

The first acquisition made by Bending Spoons was a mobile app for iPhone that personalized keyboards, costing around $10,000. Luca Ferrari noted that the app had negligible revenue and was not heavily monetized, but it possessed a user base that Bending Spoons could improve.

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The tape

3 quotes
“What was the first acquisition? And how much did you pay and how did you get the deal done?”
“So the first acquisition, uh, we paid $10,000, give or take, and it was a, um, mobile app for iPhones specifically that you used to personalize your keyboard.”
“That one specifically, I think, had negligible revenue. It wasn't even really monetized.”
Heard on All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg — “Luca Ferrari, Bending Spoons CEO: The $40K Origin Story, Buying Product-Market Fit & Why Private Equity Can't Compete”, published Wednesday, September 23, 2026. Heardvine summarizes and quotes with attribution and timestamps, and links to the original everywhere.
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Bending Spoons' First Acquisition: A $10,000 Keyboard Personalization App — Heardvine