Adriano Farano
Adriano Farano is CEO and founder at Pactio, a newly created crowdfunding platform for journalists. Prior to Pactio, Farano was Head of Content at Plex, a personal media service, which also provides a personalized video news offering thanks to the acquisition of Watchup, a startup that Farano had founded in 2012. Prior to Watchup, Adriano was an Entrepreneur in Residence at Stanford startup accelerator StartX and a 2011 Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford, where he researched innovative ways to augment the news experience on mobile and tablet. He started his career as a journalist, writing for Le Figaro and other outlets in Paris before cofounding CafeBabel.com, a pan-European online magazine. Adriano lives in Menlo Park, California.
Events IJF 2019
Starting a company is easier said than done. From product development to funding, the journey of the startup entrepreneur is filled with potential distractions and roadblocks. Our panelists have buil...
The media startup journey: how to build a multi-million dollar company from scratch
Adriano Farano founded Watchup in Silicon Valley in 2012 and sold it in a multi-million dollar deal to Plex in 2016. Mark Little founded Storyful in Dublin in 2009 and sold it in a multi-million euro ...
In February 2016, BuzzFeed claimed that its comScore metric of about 80 million UVs represented less than one-fifth of its actual global reach. This illustrates a reality that many news organisatio...
The question of the role of quality journalism in the digital age and winning strategies for the distribution of video content are the greatest challenges for media companies nowadays. With an over ...
