20VC: Inside Bending Spoons Acquisition Machine: Evernote, Eventbrite, Vimeo | How Evernote Evaluates Acquisitions and New Product Ideas | How Evernote Mastered Product Launches, User Retention and Monetisation with Federico Simionato

This is 20 Product with me, Harry Stebbings. Now 20 Product is the monthly show where we sit down with the best product and design leaders of our time. Today is a very special show. Bending Spoons is on an absolute tear. Last month they acquired Vimeo for a billion dollars.

Just this week they acquired Eventbrite for $500 million. They are famed for buying the beloved Evernote previously, and today we're joined by one of their product leads, Federico Simeonato. It was such a joy to have him in the studio, and I think this is one of the best product episodes that we have ever done. But before we dive into the show today, on this show we care about velocity. Most teams lose it in code review, not in writing code.

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