The reality behind the Silicon Valley dream | Unlocked

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Opublikowano: 2026-09-23

🚀 What does it really take to build a startup in Silicon Valley? Oliviero Pinotti went from studying hospitality at EHL to teaching himself how to code, becoming an early engineer at a Y Combinator-backed startup, and eventually making it into Y Combinator himself. Today, he is building Alfera, an AI startup developing AI workers for businesses. 🎙️ In this episode of UNLOCKED, Oliviero takes us behind the Silicon Valley dream: the relentless pace, the pivots, the fundraising rejections and the reality of building a company from the ground up. He also breaks down what Europe gets wrong about startups, why execution often ma...