All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg · Wednesday, September 23, 2026
Luca Ferrari explained Bending Spoons' approach to team management, which prioritizes very small teams with a high bar for talent to achieve optimal performance. This philosophy was developed through experimentation and learning from past acquisitions.
“And so we couldn't explain why you necessarily need more people. Partially, yes, through experimentation. We have found, uh, call it the sweet spot, obviously it's never perfect, but we, we, we, overall, I'd say the key thing for us is we want our businesses to be, you know, run at a 10 out of 10 level, and we find generally your more likely to get that, uh, that level of performance if you have very, very small teams, super high bar for talent, and sensible on our end.”
“I think it's, it's something we learned, uh, partially because early, early days, when we were acquiring businesses, typically these people would sell us the asset, say the product, but not the team.”