“I like the idea of leaving a mark,” said Luca Ferrari in an interview in April with Corriere della Sera, an Italian daily. He is the boss and co-founder of Bending Spoons, an Italian tech firm which acquires and turns around struggling apps such as Evernote, a note-taking service, and Eventbrite, a ticket-buy site. Mr Ferrari’s ambitions go beyond reviving software firms. He said that he wants to “shake-up” Italy’s lacklustre business culture by building a company of “international calibre” there.