Growth operator · Creator · Speaker — Tirana

I turn ideas into attention, and attention into customers.

Part poet, part spreadsheet, part builder. I find the story that makes a product sell, then build what carries it: the positioning, the site, the content, the partnerships. In software, travel, construction, and on my own camera.

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01 — How I work

Guess, check, ship, repeat.

Hypothesis

Guess first

I start with a guess I can be wrong about, then go and find out. A fast wrong answer beats a slow vague one.

Proof

Check it twice

Every number from two sources, every claim tested against the product before it ships. Trust is the only asset that compounds.

Building

Make it myself

Sites, apps, emails, AI agents. If the fix needs building, I build it, instead of writing a ticket and waiting.

Stamina

Stay in the round

Running, training, a business that started with one bike. Most growth happens after most people stop.

11.9Mviews on one video

1,100+reviews for a business I started with one bike

600trip packages a month, as product manager

UScustomers for a SaaS, reached from Tirana

02 — Work

Different rooms, same fight.

Software, travel, construction, local brands. The product changes. The job doesn't: find the story that sells, then build what carries it.

SaaS · Publer ecosystem

Linkie

A link-in-bio tool up against a giant with 70 million users. I help shape how Linkie is positioned, then run the growth behind it: SEO, content, launches, and some of its biggest influencer partnerships. When the algorithm kept our content inside Albania, I found the way to customers in the US.

I also own the technical side of growth: the Framer site, analytics, how search engines and AI assistants read us, and a workspace of AI agents that research, write and check the work with me.

positioningSEO growthtop influencer partnershipsUS customerstechnical growth

2026 → now

My business · Tirana

Bike Tirana

It started with one bike in 2024. Then a shop with a mural in the Old Bazaar, a team of guides, and routes beyond Tirana. Profitable from day one, with 10 to 15 riders a day from April to mid-October.

580 reviews on GetYourGuide, 390 on Google Maps, 130 on Viator. Marketplaces for discovery, the website for margin, and demand mapped in seven languages, but only sold where a guide can deliver it.

profitable from day one1,100+ reviews10–15 riders a day7 languages

2024 → now

Travel · Europe

Bus2alps

I started in sales and became the top seller. Then product manager for three countries: Croatia, Austria and Hungary, running 300 to 600 trip packages a month: what we sold, at what price, with which partners, and whether people would book again.

#1 salespersonproduct manager, 3 countries300–600 packages a month

2022–2024

Client · Los Angeles

TriStone Group

A partner-led general contractor in Los Angeles. I didn't just build the website. I learned how construction is bought, helped them decide how to position themselves, and rebuilt the site so visitors turn into project requests.

Then the content: plain words about why change orders start long before anyone picks up a hammer, and why permits decide opening day.

positioninglead-generating websiteSEOLinkedIn + TikTok

2026 → now

Brands · Albania

Close to home

bliss.al, an AI company that grew from mental health into cultural wellbeing: social media and positioning for their AI, including a slideshow seen 199K times, 89% of it by people who didn't follow them yet.

Potoko, an Albanian transport brand: social media and more. Noya, a Tirana coffee shop: website design. Places people already love, finding a voice online that feels like walking in the door.

bliss.alPotokoNoyasocial · positioning · web

Tirana

Product · my own

myhabitfriend

A calm social habit tracker I'm building myself: streaks in your own time zone, small groups with live chat, a 90-day look back, and an optional AI summary at the end of each month. Built on Cloudflare, with AI agents as the rest of the team.

designed + built soloAstro + CloudflareAI features

2026

03 — Content

Attention, built by hand.

39K on Instagram, 5K on TikTok, and YouTube. More than 20 million views combined. One big video can be luck. Doing it again, on purpose, is a system.

“Here's what I tried, what happened, and what I now believe.”

Instagram · top video11.9M

Idea: what it was
Why: why it spread

Talking head · culture5M

Format: Me, a camera, and an opinion on Albanian culture or politics
Reach: 5M and 3.4M, several more past 300K
Lesson: A clear point of view beats production value

For a brand · slideshow199K

Client: bliss.al, AI for cultural wellbeing
Hook: “7 words that would be impossible to avoid in Albanian therapy”
Result: 89% of views from non-followers, 2.7K interactions

04 — Speaking

On stage, off script.

I talk about growth the way I do it: real numbers, real mistakes, no buzzwords.

UP NEXT

Web Summit

Speaking on a public stage, and representing Linkie on the floor.

SPOKE

Future2Tech, Tirana

How to grow and convert with social media, for Linkie and Publer.

ALWAYS

On camera

Talks, panels, and years of talking-head video in English, Italian and Albanian.

What viral content teaches us about attentionTalk
Turning attention into customersTalk
What AI really changes for creators and marketersTalk
Creator instincts for tech productsWorkshop

05 — The long run

Splits, so far.

2026 →

Linkie

Positioning and growth for a SaaS product inside Publer.

2026 →

TriStone Group

Positioning, website and content for a Los Angeles general contractor.

2026

myhabitfriend

A social habit tracker I'm designing and building myself.

2024 →

Bike Tirana

One bike, then a shop, a team of guides and routes beyond Tirana. Profitable from day one.

2024 →

Vera

Helping companies sell more online with viral content, SEO and sales systems.

Tirana

Tirana Run Club

Started it. 30 to 40 people running together every day.

2022

Bus2alps

Top salesperson, then product manager for three countries, 300 to 600 trip packages a month.

2020

Tiranawellness

Co-founded the largest community of active people in Tirana.

Florence

Fighting & Breathing

Outdoor training with a view. The first time I saw social media sell something real.

2014

Siena · Florence · London

Economics on scholarships, finishing with a year at Royal Holloway.

Day zero

First sale

Charcoal toothpaste in makeup packaging, sold on Instagram.

06 — Services

Four ways in.

Pick the door closest to the problem.

07 — About

I'm from Tirana. I learned economics in Italian, marketing on the street, and patience at kilometre 35.

My first sale was charcoal toothpaste we repackaged in makeup boxes and sold on Instagram. My mom drove me to hand it over. Ten euros. I've been selling ever since: trips, tours, training, software.

In Florence I started Fighting & Breathing, outdoor training that became a profitable business and showed me how far social media and real connection can carry something small. Back home I started the Tirana Run Club: 30 to 40 people running together every day.

Running taught me the rest about growth: pick a pace you can hold, breathe, and when it hurts, that's usually the part that counts.

Based: Tirana, working with teams anywhere
Speaks: English, Italian, Albanian, some Spanish
Trains: Strength, swimming and running, mornings
Builds: Sites, apps and AI-agent workflows, mostly on Cloudflare
Open to: Growth leadership, positioning projects, advisory, talks

08 — Finish line

Got something worth noticing?

Instagram → LinkedIn →

In Lisbon for Web Summit, 9–12 November 2026. Say hi.