{"id":142354,"date":"2024-09-11T10:15:30","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T08:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.startupbusiness.it\/bending-spoons-the-italian-scaleup-towards-downsizing\/142354\/"},"modified":"2024-09-11T11:40:21","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T09:40:21","slug":"bending-spoons-the-italian-scaleup-towards-downsizing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupbusiness.it\/en\/bending-spoons-the-italian-scaleup-towards-downsizing\/142354\/","title":{"rendered":"Bending Spoons, the Italian scaleup towards downsizing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In a statement released by the Italian tech-company, which develops mobile applications globally in the creator economy, it is announced that a staff reduction process has begun that <strong>will affect 75 per cent of the staff at <em>WeTransfer,<\/em><\/strong> a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.startupbusiness.it\/en\/bending-spoons-buys-wetransfer-and-issuu\/141812\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">company that was just acquired last month<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>By the end of 2022, the Italian scaleup had closed a <strong>EUR 340 million<\/strong> round, and in May it received a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.startupbusiness.it\/bending-spoons-70-milioni-di-euro-per-lespansione-internazionale\/32544\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>EUR 70 million loan<\/strong><\/a> for its internationalisation strategy, a loan supported by <em>Sace<\/em> and <em>Intesa Sanpaolo.<\/em><\/p>\n\n<p>Founded in Copenhagen in 2013, <strong><em>Bending Spoons<\/em><\/strong> moved its headquarters to Italy in 2014, the home country of four of its five founders; today, around <strong>350 highly qualified employees,<\/strong> with more than 70 per cent from a technical background, mainly engineers and scientists, work at its offices in Milan. The company has a portfolio of over 20 apps in the photovideo, e.g. <em>Remini<\/em> and <em>Splice<\/em>, and <em>healthfitness<\/em> categories. To date, the company has <strong>over 500 million downloads and 90 million monthly active users.<\/strong>  <\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bending Spoons strategy for WeTransfer<\/h2>\n\n<p>&#8220;In this specific case, the vision we have developed is that of a smaller and more <strong>focused WeTransfer structure, which we believe is better positioned to ensure the success of the company with a long-term vision<\/strong>,&#8221; says Bending Spoons CEO Luca Ferrari in the note. &#8220;This decision, although difficult, was made in line with that vision. I will not go into details at this stage, <strong>as the staff reduction has not yet been fully defined<\/strong>. <strong>We informed everyone as soon as possible,<\/strong> even though we were not able to provide all the details, because we felt it was the most transparent and respectful way to deal with a difficult situation&#8217;. <\/p>\n\n<p>This was revealed by <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2024\/07\/31\/bending-spoons-acquires-file-transfer-service-wetransfer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TechCrunch,<\/a> which had already written last month about how the Milan-based company <strong>would routinely lay off staff in companies it acquires<\/strong>. In February 2023, it had laid off <strong>129 staff members<\/strong> at <em>Evernote<\/em>, while in December 2023, it cut all employees at <em>Filmic<\/em>, which it acquired in 2022. <\/p>\n\n<p><em>Bending Spoons<\/em> is a feather in our government&#8217;s cap. In May, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.startupbusiness.it\/en\/artificial-intelligence-for-the-made-in-italy\/129679\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">MIMIT had presented <em>Accenture&#8217;s<\/em> report on the impacts of artificial intelligence<\/a> throughout the value chain, during the 20th <em>Leonardo Committee<\/em> Forum. And among the guests at the table was <strong>Matteo Danieli,<\/strong> co-founder and CPO of <em>Bending Spoons<\/em>.  <\/p>\n\n<p>With a <strong>valuation in excess of $2.5 billion <\/strong>and with a strategy of this kind, <em>Bending Spoons<\/em> raises <strong>important ethical questions<\/strong> about this type of operation: while it shows that innovation and growth often require deep restructuring, which can include significant staff reductions, from an ethical point of view, these actions can be perceived as an example of a <strong>strictly profit-oriented view<\/strong>, justified of course by the type of market in which they operate. But <strong>how sustainable is such a model <\/strong>in the long term with its impact? Such practices are not new in the tech world, <em>Microsoft,<\/em> in 2014, after the acquisition of <em>Nokia&#8217;s mobile division<\/em>, laid off thousands of employees, and more recently, <em>Meta<\/em> (<em>Facebook<\/em>), made numerous layoffs in 2022 and 2023, drastically reducing staff after acquiring several companies and facing an industry crisis.  <\/p>\n\n<p>What the staff of <em>Bending Spoons<\/em> will have to study is how it will do this in the different countries where <em>WeTransfer <\/em>is based, precisely because of the impact, also legislative, that this will have on <strong>employee welfare<\/strong>. And above all, should <em>Bending Spoons<\/em> meet the criteria of <strong><em>CSRD<\/em><\/strong> &#8211; the European <em>Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive<\/em> that requires transparent reporting of its environmental, social and governance (<strong>ESG<\/strong>) practices and impacts &#8211; redundancy decisions could be subject to increased scrutiny in the area of social sustainability, one of the core aspects of <em>CSRD<\/em>. And given recent successes and acquisitions, it could reach the requirements for applicability in the near future if not already included.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the rich campaign of international acquisitions in recent months comes the time for 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Co-fondatore di Designtech, l\u2019hub di innovazione che avvicina il mondo del design con quello della tecnologia. Advisor di Austrian Business Agency, Emil Banca, Fondazione Symbola, Fondazione Quadrans. Partecipa regolarmente a incontri, convegni, conferenze dedicate all\u2019ecosistema dell\u2019innovazione. E\u2019 stato co-organizzatore degli Italian Innovation Day and Series che si sono svolti dal dal 2016 al 2020 nelle citt\u00e0 di Tokyo in Giappone, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Canberra in Australia e Singapore e co-organizzatore dell\u2019Italy India Innovation Day di AIICP 2021 e 2022. Ha curato il volume \u2018L\u2019innovazione che non ti aspetti. Contesti e visioni per l\u2019impresa\u2019 , l\u2019edizione italiana di \u2018La startup digitale, guida pratica step by step\u2019 e ha scritto la prefazione all\u2019edizione italiana de \u2018La quarta era\u2019 di Byron Reese, ed \u00e8 co-autore di \u2018Cosa e Dove: strategie digitali di ricerca del lavoro\u2019, tutti editi da FrancoAngeli. In passato \u00e8 stato curatore di StartupDigest Italy, coordinatore scientifico del Forum per la Ricerca della Provincia Autonoma di Trento, board member di TechChill Milano advisor di di ScaleIT , ha collaborato con Il Sole 24 Ore \u00e8 stato direttore di Innov\u2019azione, bimestrale edito da Apsti, ha collaborato con Corriere Innovazione ed \u00e8 stato presidente del comitato di selezione del Premio Marzotto e advisor di Cetif-Universit\u00e0 Cattolica Milano.","sameAs":["https:\/\/www.abirascid.com\/","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/emilabirascid","https:\/\/x.com\/emilabirascid"],"url":"https:\/\/www.startupbusiness.it\/en\/author\/emil-abirascid\/"}]}},"author_name":"Emil Abirascid","categories_names":["Scaleup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupbusiness.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupbusiness.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupbusiness.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupbusiness.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupbusiness.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupbusiness.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142355,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupbusiness.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142354\/revisions\/142355"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupbusiness.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupbusiness.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupbusiness.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupbusiness.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142354"},{"taxonomy":"companies","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupbusiness.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/companies?post=142354"},{"taxonomy":"journalist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupbusiness.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/journalist?post=142354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}