From a BASIC manual at age 7, to €450/day consulting fees
The real story of the person who wrote this book

A 7-year-old kid, an English manual, and zero help
My father was an employee. My mother was an employee. Nobody in my family knew what a computer was, let alone programming.
At 7, I found a BASIC manual. In English. I didn't speak English. I had no internet, no YouTube, no ChatGPT. I had only fierce curiosity and the stubbornness of a child who refuses to not understand.
Nobody pushed me. Nobody guided me. It was the first sign that this thing would become my life.

10 years of studying and coding. Zero money earned.
From 7 to 17 I studied and programmed every single day. Without earning a cent.
I wrote my first programs in Visual Basic. Then C++. Then I discovered the web and realized that's where the future was. I built websites, applications, systems, for myself. To learn.
That decade of "zero visible results" was the foundation on which I built everything else.

At 23: partners who tried to cheat me and the hardest lesson
At 23 I founded my first company.
I was convinced that technical talent was enough.
I was wrong.
The partners I had chosen tried to cheat me. I lost money, time, and trust.
But I gained something far more valuable: the awareness that software doesn't exist in a vacuum.
That painful lesson became one of the pillars of my method.
And an entire chapter of this book.

The turning point: €12,000 for a website and the first taste of freedom
2005 was the year everything changed. My first website sold for €12,000. While most developers were earning €1,200 a month.
From there, everything accelerated.
Consulting at €450 per day.
Anti-intrusion software sold at €10,000 per installation.
Projects with multinational clients like Severstal, GlaxoSmithKline, Il Sole 24 Ore.
I understood that the difference between a €1,200/month developer and a €450/day one is not talent.
It's method, mindset, and the ability to think like an architect.
This book contains exactly that method.
After 25 years of real projects, painful mistakes, and successes built through discipline: I put it all in a book. Not the theory they teach at university. The reality I lived in the field. Every day.







