Francesco Patarnello

Francesco Patarnello is an Italian tech entrepreneur and co-founder of Bending Spoons, a Milan-based mobile app company he established in 2013 alongside Luca Ferrari, Matteo Danieli, and Luca Querella. He previously co-founded Evertale ApS in 2010, a note-taking app startup that was unsuccessful but led to the creation of Bending Spoons. He studied at the Technical University of Denmark and the University of Padua, and Bending Spoons is known for its strategy of acquiring apps and companies with loyal audiences, including Evernote, Meetup, and WeTransfer.