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  • Stefano Pistillo
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    #11602

    Hi everyone!

    My name is Stefano Pistillo and I work as a Solutions Engineer for an American marketing company.

    I work for them remotely from Torino, but I have lived in San Francisco for a few years..

    Interesting fact: that company, ClickMail, was introduced to me thanks to the Silicon Valley Study Tour in 2009!

    That year I had the privilege of being selected to participate to the Tour among other PoliTo students and that trip changed my life: I found out how the tech center of the world is and after that I started working for one of those companies – and still am!

    I’ll be happy to share more during one of the events but I’ll also follow the discussion here and I’ll read everything, but I apologize in advance if I won’t write daily as, in addition to working for ClickMail, I also founded a Startup (Viz and Chips) – and have two young daughters, which made me realize startups are just easy in comparison 🙂

    Thanks and Happy Conversation!

    Stefano Pistillo

     

     

    Stefano Pistillo
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    @pistillostefano
    #1050

    Hi guys,

    Thank you for participating to the conference yesterday!
    I wanted to give you a couple of links and comments.

    First of all, I wanted to stress out that you don’t necessarily have to change jobs every 4 years, of course. I’ve been with ClickMail for 7 years now and I’m happy to be here and most importantly I’m still learning new skills every day. I think that’s the point: having space for improvement and being happy. If you are not, why not trying? Why being content? Why is it so easy to be scared about new challenges? Is it because our parents have been telling us (with words or with their attitude) that working can never be fulfilling but just something you have to do 8 hours a day and after that, only after that, the “real” life begins?
    I thought that if I didn’t at least give it a try in my 20’s I would regret it and things are going well so far: I have a fulfilling job, I’m in love with my wife and my 2 daughters – and I even bought a house (talking about stability, right? 🙂 ) – and without having our families helping us out economically, by the way.

    These are the links I told you about new ways of getting a job:
    http://www.linkiesta.it/it/article/2017/03/17/le-aziende-non-cercano-piu-gli-esperti-vogliono-gli-appassionati/33582/
    https://justknock.it/it/index.html

    Finally, a quick note to the Snapchat IPO.
    It’s really difficult to comment, in my opinion: how many people were talking about how the Facebook IPO was a bubble and that it was crazy because it had not make any money, etc.? And now everyone uses it for advertisement.
    From my contacts and friends in the US, it seems to me that the younger generation is not on Facebook but Snapchat, so it may make sense to invest money there if you think that Facebook will be used by us “older” people and Snapchat by our children – especially if the company management seems smart: because as you know, most investors value the people behind an idea almost more than the idea itself, because they’ll be able to shift and pivot towards more successful paths.

    Ciao!
    Stefano

    Stefano Pistillo
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    @pistillostefano
    #875

    @foreversin That’s right, thanks!

    Stefano Pistillo
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    @pistillostefano
    #872

    Hi everyone,

    This is Stefano and I’m going to speak on Monday about my experience with the SVST to the US and back.

    I read your comments and I just wanted to give 3 links about Big Data to anyone who might be interested to delve a little bit more into the subject:

    This Is How Facebook Actually Won Trump the Presidency

    Trump’s Data Team Saw a Different America—and They Were Right

    This is a great Facebook group about people working with Data daily:

    Dataninja

    Enjoy!

    Stefano

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