Luca Ferrari

I was very grateful.

I still have a very fond memory of McKinsey.

For that reason, like a lot of gratitude and

Worked there for about a year, then we managed to raise initially half a million euros, then another half a million later from a VC, and I completed my project and I resigned.

There was no contract, nothing.

100% just trust.

I don't know.

I just think it's really a good way to live life.

Sometimes you get some sour moments because of it, but...

It makes 99% of it so much more enjoyable if you don't have to be too transactional.

So Evertail was your startup by the book, meaning this idea that probably won't work, but if it works, could be huge and very innovative.

Like nobody had attempted as far as we could tell anything like that before.

And so we worked super hard on that project for about three years.

And naturally, as you are a startup or when you do something, I think you tend to network with people in a similar situation.

for a bunch of reasons.

And so over time, we got to observe probably a couple dozen teams go through similar journeys as we did.

And through that observation, we saw that, of course, most failed, which you would expect, and maybe three or four had levels of success.

And we saw almost no correlation between the teams we considered more talented and more hardworking and those who came out on top.

And so we concluded it's not a huge sample, but probably to go from zero to one, luck

plays a huge role.