
The CEO of Exor at the Wave by Vento conference in Turin: "In ten years 220 companies supported and 3,000 jobs created"
John Elkann, CEO of Exor, announced the goal of supporting over a thousand new companies with Vento over the next ten years, during the Wave by Vento conference at Ogr in Turin.
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Vento is the activity supported by Exor for the development of new innovative businesses in Italy.
"We need to generate opportunities and accelerate. Over the next ten years we hope to have more than a thousand new companies supported by Vento." This was stated by John Elkann, CEO of Exor, in a meeting with the press on the opening day of Wave by Vento at the Ogr in Turin, the most important tech conference in Italy and one of the largest in Europe.
"In these ten years Vento has supported 220 companies, created 3,000 jobs and 3 billion in value, 5% of the value of the start-up market in Italy, equal to around 60 billion. We believe that in the next decade we will be able to have great satisfaction from what we have created", said Elkann. "The world that Vento cultivates is a very strong act of faith in the future that Italians and Italians are generating. I am convinced that here we are building an important part of the future."
200 speakers from all over the world will participate in the conference organized by Vento, the activity supported by Exor for the development of new innovative businesses. Among the protagonists of the three days Nik Storonsky, founder & CEO of Revolut; Jony Ive, founder of LoveFrom and former Chief Design Officer of Apple; Antonio Filosa, CEO of Stellantis; Joe Tsai, co-founder & chairman of Alibaba Group; Linda Rottenberg, co-founder & CEO of Endeavor
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