Carlo Alberto
Degli Atti

I’ve lived several professional lives — and every one of them started with a leap.

I founded my first company, Information Delivery Systems, while I was still at university. Then I grew Concept in Milan for over a decade, turning consulting into software products. Then I left the comfort zone of the place I was born and raised and moved to San Francisco, where I launched and led Opinionage and Thingle.me as CEO — raising capital, building teams and shipping products on both sides of the Atlantic.

Along the way I was featured in Starting-Up in America (2011), a documentary by Tarik Ansari and Basil Glew-Galloway on the challenges international entrepreneurs face with US immigration to build their companies in Silicon Valley.

In 2021 I made another leap — from entrepreneur to intrapreneur — joining PagoPA’s Strategic Innovation department. Today I’m Product Lead at PagoPA, the state-owned company behind Italy’s public digital payments and services platforms.

What ties it together: I’ve been building things since I wired a brake light onto my bicycle at ten, and every change of skin has made me a lifelong learner. I’m fascinated by cognitive science — Hofstadter and Dennett in particular — and I stay close to the code, because that’s where good product judgment comes from.