About the author
Vittorio
Viarengo.
Italian Silicon Valley executive. Author of Largo ai Giovani.
Italian Silicon Valley executive. Author of Largo ai Giovani.
Vittorio Viarengo is an Italian executive in Silicon Valley. He has held senior R&D and Marketing roles at BEA Systems, Oracle, VMware, MobileIron, Skyhigh and McAfee.
Vittorio Viarengo was born in Genoa and has lived in Silicon Valley since 1998. After a Computer Science degree, he spent over twenty years at the companies that defined the modern software era: BEA Systems, Oracle, VMware, MobileIron, Skyhigh, McAfee.
He held Vice President roles at five of them, leading hundred-million-dollar product lines and teams distributed across California, Bangalore and Bucharest. Four of the companies he worked at were acquired.
Today he is the founder of ViVi Software, a mentor to young Italian and European founders, and the author of Largo ai Giovani — his first book. He lives with his wife Paola in Los Altos.
Largo ai Giovani ("Make way for the young") is a memoir-manifesto. It argues that Italy doesn't have a talent deficit — it has an activation deficit. Drawing on thirty years of Silicon Valley experience and a childhood in a Genoese bakery, Vittorio makes the case for a country that stops asking its best twenty-somethings to wait their turn. The manuscript is complete and in conversations with Italian publishers; the English edition will follow.
For interviews, reviews, podcast appearances and everything else: vittorio@gmail.com.