Why the Valley activates talent — and most places don't.
A book by Vittorio Viarengo.
English edition forthcoming.
Italy doesn't have a talent problem. It has an activation problem.
It's not a memoir, it's not a manual. It's the story of someone who left the family bakery, spent thirty years inside the system that activates talent, and came back to tell Italy what it's missing — and what already belongs to it.
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I signed the offer on September 12, 2001. The day after September 11. The world had just collapsed and I was signing for a new job on the other side of America. But I had set a condition. Carl had done a phone interview with BEA and it had gone badly — the General Manager told me they wouldn't hire him. I replied: "If you don't take Carl, I'm not coming."
Italian Silicon Valley executive. Held senior roles in R&D and Marketing at VMware, Oracle, BEA Systems, MobileIron, Skyhigh and McAfee. Mentors young entrepreneurs. Lives in San Jose, California.