Silvio Scaglia Quotes

Silvio Scaglia — Italian Businessman

Silvio Scaglia is an Italian telecoms entrepreneur. He spent his childhood and youth in Novara, Italy. He and a group of other managers founded Italian telecommunications company Fastweb S.p.A and the web platform Babelgum. In 2007, Mr. Scaglia set up an investment firm, Pacific Capital, active both in public and private equity investment opportunities on a global scale. Scaglia was previously the majority shareholder of Fastweb S.p.A. until April 9, 2007 when he sold his 18.75% share in the company to Swisscom, which had launched a takeover bid of the company at 47 euros per share. The Swiss TLC company eventually bought 82.1% of Fastweb for a total of 3.1 billion euros... (wikipedia)

Babelgum has no ties to individual content owners and distributors, and as a result our editorial strategy is primarily 'user-centric.' That strategy ensures the platform satisfies the needs of a potentially infinite number of niche audiences around the world.

There are literally tens of thousands of very good content providers in the world that don't distribute their content through TV channels.

Technological transformations give you the chance to set up new and ambitious ventures. That's what I did with FastWeb and that is what we are doing with Babelgum. This is much more than TV because we are making the content available all across the world and you have an open platform with freedom of choice.

We will make La Perla a great international brand for beauty and feminine luxury.

I don't want to be known as a serial entrepreneur. I like doing one thing at a time and making sure that gets my full attention until it's well established. I enjoy the initial years of a company because they are the most dynamic, and that is when I can give the best of myself.

Silvio Scaglia Quotes

Silvio Scaglia Quotes

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