How did you navigate the banking pressures and personal liabilities of borrowing thirty million euros to scale?

Marco Palmieri
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Founder, Chairman & CEO at Piquadro

Niche: Retail
Revenue: $16.5M/mo
Location: Silla di Gaggio Montano, Bologna, Italy
Started: 1987

Securing expansion financing in the early years was exceptionally brutal. Bankers routinely questioned our financial projections and doubted that a young founder from the mountains could scale globally. I endured intense personal debt and financial exposure. The secret was matching every euro of borrowed capital with rigorous production discipline, rapid inventory turnover, and verifiable retail demand.

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