07/05/2026
Five years ago.
It all started as a game, honestly. A drone bought by mistake, a fire inside that never stopped burning, and a hell of a lot of fear of failing.
I traded sleep for craft, fueled by a kind of passion that’s hard to explain until you’re in it.
But then, things get real.
The scariest part of this game it’s the moment the passion starts feeling like a "business." It’s the moment you realize the invoices are starting to crowd out the art.
I think back to 18-years-old me. Standing in the middle of Africa with a 50-euro digital camera, looking at the world and wondering if I could ever turn that little piece of plastic into a life. If I let the "businessman" kill the "creator" inside me, that kid would never forgive me. And honestly? He’d be right.
That’s the fight every creative faces when the dream becomes the job. Day by day you have to balance the ambition to grow with the soul of why you started.
So I made a choice. I decided to team up with trusted people I’ve crossed paths with along this journey to launch my new company, VENI VIDI LEAD. Running a company in Italy... it’s a weight. It’s heavy responsibility. But it’s not going to be an excuse to give up on who I am. I'm starting walking on a different path but i stay creative, and I’ll die a creative. Period.
And beside that If there’s one kind of feeling I’ve realized I need, it’s the rollercoaster. That constant "up and down" that every entrepreneur, no matter the scale, has to face every single day of their life.
One day you win, one day the chips are down: struggle, struggle, struggle every day to succes against all odds.
VENI VIDI LEAD is my next steep climb. I’m hitting it with the same cockiness and the same raw attitude I had on that spring morning five years ago.
Now I could let these dream-killers kill my self-esteem, or use my arrogance as the steam to power my dreams.
Ad maiora. 🥂