Gabriele Venturi

Writing

Thoughts on startups, AI, and building things.

Product and engineering are worth almost nothing

Jul 2026

Building used to be the hard part. AI made it the easy part. What's left, and what actually decides who wins, is distribution.

There's a hidden game on this site

Jul 2026

I shipped a small Asteroids-style easter egg on gabrieleventuri.eu. Here's how to find it.

Introducing PandasAI

Jan 2024

An open-source library that lets you query pandas dataframes in plain English, built because I was tired of writing the same ten lines of code.

Introducing ChatPic

Feb 2023

A photo editor you talk to instead of fight with: describe the edit, ChatPic makes it.

Welcome to my blog

Feb 2023

Who I am, what I've actually built (and killed), and why I'm writing this.