Patrick Turricelli

I grew up in Italy. I was drawn to anything I could get obsessed with: soccer, math, later code and AI. At some point I realized I was more interested in the problems than the classroom, so I dropped out of high school my last year and followed my brother to Zurich, where he was doing his Master's in Robotics at ETH.

I spent that time going deep on things I was genuinely curious about: AI, computer vision, building software. I attended CS and computer vision lectures in person at ETH, took courses online like Harvard's CS50 and Stanford's CS231n and CS229, and spent time at AMZ Racing on the self-driving car for the Formula Student competition. I came back to Italy where I ended up placing in a few national competitions in informatics and science along the way.

Built software at one of Europe's largest banks while studying AI at Bocconi University. Left both to co-found Gomry with my brother and a friend — an AI-native platform for experience creators that reached $XM+ in revenue with hundreds of thousands of users.

Built the Silicon Valley Fellowship alongside it. I wanted to understand how the Valley worked and create a way for ambitious people to plug into it. It grew into a dense network of exceptional people: 21+ YC founders, 3 Thiel Fellows, 12 Forbes 30 Under 30, alumni from 40+ countries. 800+ applications per batch.

Now in stealth, building something new in AI.