Inside Bending Spoons: Buying Airtable, AOL, Vimeo & Now Miro

Bending Spoons buys companies and never sells them. Since listing in July it has spent roughly $2.6B across Airtable and Miro, and the pipeline has never been fuller.Bending Spoons (NASDAQ BSP) is a Milan-based technology company that acquires digital businesses, rebuilds them on its own platform, and holds them permanently. It owns AOL, Airtable, Vimeo, Eventbrite, Evernote, WeTransfer, Brightcove, Tractive, Remini, komoot, Harvest, StreamYard and Meetup, with more than 500 million monthly active users and over 9 million paying customers. It listed on the Nasdaq on July 1, 2026 at $29 a share. On September 10, 2026 it agreed to acquire Miro at a $1.355B enterprise value, 6 days after closing Airtable.Sourcery visited the Milan headquarters for a walkthrough with: › Luca Ferrari, Co-Founder & CEOFollowed by sit-downs with:› Francesco Patarnello, Co-Founder & Head of M&A› Matteo Danieli, Co-Founder & VP of Product› Valentina Jerusalmi, General Manager of AOLWe cover deal selection across 1,000 targets, how the debt and equity stack was built from a $2M bank loan to US term loans, the Grindr process that collapsed in 2020, the decision to drop vesting entirely, why Danieli stepped down as CPO, and the AOL carve-out from Yahoo.This is Part I of a II-Part Series, Full Sit-down Interview with CEO Luca Ferrari next..Luca Ferrari: https://x.com/luke10ferrariFrancesco Patarnello: https://x.com/frapatarnelloMatteo Danieli: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matteodanieliValentina Jerusalmi: https://www.linkedin.com/in/valentina-jerusalmiMolly O’Shea: https://x.com/MollySOShea Sourcery: ⁠https://x.com/sourceryy 𝐄𝐏𝐈𝐒𝐎𝐃𝐄 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊YouTube: https://youtu.be/3IUnY8btQQo𝐒𝐏𝐎𝐍𝐒𝐎𝐑𝐒• Brex—The modern finance platform, combining the world’s smartest corporate card with integrated expense management, banking, bill pay, & travel. https://brex.com/sourcery • Zone—develops next-generation data center campuses, partnering with AI companies, site developers and technology leaders to bring compute online faster and at scale. Visit: https://zonefrontier.com   • Turing—Turing delivers top-tier talent, data, and tools to help AI labs improve model performance—and enables enterprises to turn those models into powerful, production-ready systems. https://turing.com/sourcery • VCX—VCX is the public ticker for private tech, allowing investors of all sizes to invest in venture capital. View The Portfolio at http://GetVCX.com  • Deel—Deel is the global people platform that helps startups hire, manage, pay, and equip anyone, anywhere. Trusted by more than 35,000 fast-growing companies, Deel is the people platform that just works, so teams can scale without the chaos. Visit: https://www.deel.com/sourcery• Public–Investing platform Public just launched Generated Assets, which lets you turn any idea into an investable index with AI. With Generated Assets, you can build, backtest, refine, and invest in any thesis with AI. G