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5 unusual facts about Silvio Scaglia


Babelgum

The project was set up in 2005 by Italian media and telecommunications entrepreneur Silvio Scaglia (one of the founders of Italian TelCo FASTWEB) and scientist Erik Lumer, with the aim of developing interactive software for distributing TV shows and other forms of video over the Internet.

Babelgum is an independent, privately held company that is wholly owned and funded by Silvio Scaglia.

Mallku Caballero

In 2006, Caballero was recruited by Silvio Scaglia to work on the Babelgum project, a global Internet television start-up which had already carried out 12 months of research and prototyping.

Silvio Scaglia

There, he joined Gianfilippo Cuneo's team, and in 1989 he followed Cuneo to the McKinsey spin-off, Bain & Company (former Bain & Cuneo Associati), where he worked on the automotive sector, notably for Piaggio.

He and a group of other managers founded Italian telecommunications company Fastweb S.p.A and the web platform Babelgum.



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