Watchup
Founder
Adriano Farano
I’ve built a pizza oven, a family and a company. Not necessarily in that order.
I’ve built a pizza oven, a family and a company. Not necessarily in that order.
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At age 9, when I realized that nobody among my 4th grade classmates had heard of the fall of the Berlin Wall, I created a newspaper and sold it to my classmates. I paid writers with pizza, published several issues but later my teacher shut it down because I was “making money”. I continued through other channels, though.
At age 20, I created CafeBabel.com, the first pan-European magazine, one of the rare online-only news outlet in the world to be 12 year-old today with offices in 35 European cities.
I moved to the Bay Area two years ago for the Knight Fellowship at Stanford, a program that selects 20 journalists and entrepreneurs to do research on news ways to create and distribute news in the 21st century. After that I was fortunate enough to start mentoring StartX companies as an entrepreneur in residence. And it's here at StartX that we're building Watchup, which is like Flipboard for video.
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