Phenomenal piles of flour sacks are stacked in front of the Pa de Kilo counter. "Spanish flour is good, but French flour is of higher quality, so we only use the latter," explains Osvaldo Brito, the bakery's founder. He appears covered in flour, rushing out of the small workshop just behind the counter. Here, no one stands idle: the team moves quickly and in sync as if they were dancing.

Amid growing risks associated with launching startups, more and more experienced executives are choosing a different path: entrepreneurship through business acquisition. At the Think Wide conference in Barcelona, entrepreneur and investor Elena Trukhina shared her experience with the Search Fund model—an investment mechanism that enables the acquisition of a stable small or medium-sized business with investor backing even before a specific company is selected. This strategy combines managerial autonomy, reduced risk, and high return potential

Nineteen years ago, I tightly connected my life with game development: I became a co-founder of TimeZero. And in 2021, Nexters (of which I am a co-founder) entered NASDAQ with a valuation of around 2 billion dollars.