Background – Stefan Zanetti

17 Jun

Meet Pipo — The AI Strategy Companion Trained on 500+ Tech Startup Pivots

June 19, 2025
By Stefan Zanetti

Meet Pipo: the AI companion trained on 500+ successful tech venture pivots. Over the last two years, I’ve studied patterns across mo...

12 Jun

Background, Case Study, Knowledge

Why SaaS Is Breaking — And What Comes Next: The Rise of RaaS (Result-as-a-Service)

June 19, 2025
By Stefan Zanetti

I’m seeing it everywhere: the SaaS model is starting to crumble. Customers don’t want just another “software.” They want results. And t...

10 Jun

Background, Stefan Zanetti

From Pivot to Progress: Why I’m Launching Unionarity.com

June 24, 2025
By Stefan Zanetti

I’ve been in the lab again cooking up something these past few months, and today I’m launching it: Unionarity.com. When I launched P...

25 May

Background, Knowledge

When Founders Aren’t the Problem — The Real Cause Behind Startup Stalls

June 19, 2025
By Stefan Zanetti

“Founders are the problem” — I hear this often from VCs when a startup stalls and they're trying to make sense of it. It always stop...

20 May

Background, Stefan Zanetti

Why “AI Agents Running Businesses Alone” Is Clickbait – My Real Setup with Hybrid AI

June 19, 2025
By Stefan Zanetti

“I made $3M ARR in 6 months using AI agents.” – Seen these posts too? Let’s call them what they are: Clickbait. There's no denying t...

15 Mar

Background

Most startup board members don’t realize what they’re signing up for: → 3 risks no one warns you about (+ how to avoid them).

April 23, 2025
By Stefan Zanetti
26 comments

I’ve been a board member and president in multiple tech companies for over 20 years. This year, I decided to step back and do a tr...

10 Mar

Background, Case Study, Knowledge

Finding your pivot paths, fast: What the ACME1 team said about the workshop, in hindsight.

April 23, 2025
By Stefan Zanetti
29 comments

A week ago I posted how we identified 3 immediately relevant pivot paths within one 5 hours workshop for a real company, called “ACME 1...

22 Feb

Background, Knowledge

There is a question I get asked a lot in my 1-1 sessions: “When is a strategic change really a pivot?”

April 23, 2025
By Stefan Zanetti
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For example: "𝘐𝘧 𝘸𝘦 𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘢𝘬 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘺 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘱𝘪𝘷𝘰𝘵?" "𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘧 𝘸𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘱 𝘥𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘫𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘰𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳?" And here’s wh...

15 Nov

Background

Do You Know the Roots of the Word Pivotal?

December 5, 2024
By Stefan Zanetti
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Here comes the deeper meaning of the so beautiful adjective "pivotal" - and how this could help us to see things differently when it co...

24 Oct

Background, Knowledge

Focus, focus, focus… really?

October 24, 2024
By Stefan Zanetti
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The no. 1 advice for startup founders: focus, focus, focus… Really? A very common paradigm in the startup environment: focus, focus,...