Inside Bending Spoons' AI-accelerated acquisition machine

Key points

Key takeaways from a Sourcery interview with Bending Spoons co-founder & CEO Luca Ferrari at the company's Milan headquarters (September 2026):

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Centralised platform. Bending Spoons runs its entire portfolio on a centralised technology platform of 50+ proprietary tools, with Luca claiming 95% of code is now written by AI and internal "Alt Spooner" agents and 2-3x higher productivity.

Extreme talent funnel. The company received 800,000 job applications in ư2025 yet hired fewer than ư300 people, filtering for extreme ownership, experimentation and truth-seeking.

Experimentation culture. Bending Spoons ran more than ư3,000 experiments last year, and Luca argues most people don't actually seek the truth — a view embedded in the company's operating style.

Acquisition machine. Hosis Molly O'Shea asked how the buy-and-hold model works after the Miro and Airtable deals, and the episode covers misconceptions around the business model.

AI hype and valuations. Luca pushes back on AI hype, arguing about what is real in AI-driven productivity gains and how it relates to software valuations.

Risks and limits. The interview also covers the risks of the model, including execution dependency on the central platform and concentration of talent.

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