Carlo Edoardo Ferraris

Italian. Based in Chiasso, Switzerland.

A few facts:

14-16: bought, fixed, and resold motorbikes.
17: built a micro-social product on Kik. It passed 1B+ visits.
18: launched inCharge, my first hardware product. The first campaign brought 25,000+ backers in under two months. [inCharge] [Rolling Square]
19-28: built Rolling Square into an 8-figure hardware business around small everyday products. [Rolling Square] [Forbes]
28: started Natura Umana. The current bet is voice-first AI: HumanPods, NatureOS, and agents that sit closer to the ear than to the screen. [Natura] [HumanPods] [designboom] [Indian Express]
29: started AI and Governance Observatory, which looks at AI less as an app category and more as part of the operating layer of government. [AGO] [Paper 01]
Bocconi, business and management, 2015-2018. [Bocconi]

Interested in:

Very small hardware products that earn a permanent place in a pocket, wallet, or desk. [Rolling Square] [Forbes]
Voice interfaces that reduce screen time instead of creating another screen. [Mission] [HumanPods]
AI systems that behave more like infrastructure than entertainment. [Mission] [AGO]
Smaller states or institutions that can move quickly when a general-purpose technology arrives. [Paper 01]
The overlap between hardware, software, and institutions. That seems to be the line through my work so far. [Rolling Square] [Natura] [AGO]

I believe:

Technology should adapt to human habits, not the other way around. [Mission]
Attention extraction is a bad product model. [Mission] [Cybernews]
AI in government will matter more at the level of implementation than rhetoric. [Paper 01]
Useful products should remove steps rather than ask for more interaction. [Rolling Square] [Mission]

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