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John Elkann

Chief Executive Officer, Exor N.V.

Search every verified John Elkann interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. John Elkann, CEO of Exor and chairman of Ferrari, Stellantis, and Vento, appeared on the Vento Meets podcast on August 10, 2026, in a conversation with Augusto Marietti and Fernanda Ferreira. During the episode, Elkann discussed the challenges of building a company, comparing the early stages to "driving a car in the fog" with limited visibility, and emphasized the importance of strong belief in one's work and collaborators. He also remarked that while it has "never been easier to start a company," it has "never been harder to build one," citing increased competition and widespread access to knowledge and AI tools as contributing factors. Elkann further suggested that with the cost of code declining due to AI, competitive advantage increasingly relies on taste, judgment, and creativity rather than technical engineering alone. The podcast also highlighted Elkann's broader professional activities, noting his role as CEO of Exor, chairman of Ferrari and Stellantis, founder of the investment firm Lingotto in 2023, and his 2025 appointment to Meta's board of directors.

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“If you just get devoured by now, you'll lose the optimism for tomorrow. And I do feel that if you do look at long term and if you think on decades rather than months, yes, what matters today is important for 10 years. Yes. And and if you have that idea that 10 years things will be better and that we will have made progress, it helps today and it does relieve a lot of angst.”

“The biggest impact that AI is going to have is it is going to affect every company in the world. It is going to make their quality go up and their productivity go up. I mean by every company I literally mean every company. Every manufacturing company, every hotel, every consumer products company etc etc etc. And so that is hard to fathom but it's real.”

“I looked at the numbers in the business and every month as the stock price went from 113 to six, the number of customers went up every month. Our gross profits went up every month. Our operating expense, we were still in a loss position, but our losses as a percentage of sales went down every month. Every single business metric, new customers, customer repeat purchases, everything that we were monitoring through that”

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