Growth operator · Creator · Speaker — Tirana

I turn ideas into attention, and attention into customers.

Part poet, part spreadsheet. I find what's stopping a product from growing, then build what moves it: the story, the distribution, the numbers. Quietly, and until it works.

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01 — How I work

Words, numbers, and stamina.

Attention

Make them stop

People decide in a second whether to keep watching. I've spent years learning what earns that second, and I have the view counts to check.

Words

Say it simply

One true sentence beats a page of features. I write for people, not for search bars.

Numbers

Count everything

Margins, group sizes, cost per booking, conversion. A feeling is a hypothesis until the numbers agree.

Stamina

Stay in the round

Marathons, training, businesses that started with one bike. Most growth happens after most people stop.

10.9Mviews on one video

39.3Kpeople following along

3videos past 3 million

2businesses profitable from day one

02 — Work

Different rooms, same fight.

Find what's stopping growth. Build the system that gets past it. Stay until it works.

SaaS · Publer ecosystem

Linkie

A link-in-bio tool up against a giant with 70 million users, and I'm the whole marketing team. So I didn't fight on features. I fought on what the giants ignore: your brand, not ours, private by default. Then I fixed the foundations before shouting about it.

I run the Framer site end to end, from homepage tests and pricing to structured data and analytics. I write the launch emails, sign the creator partnerships, take Linkie to AppSumo and to stages like Future2Tech. Behind it sits a workspace of AI agents I built to research, write and check the work with me.

site health 41 → 88 in 2 weeksFramer site ownerlaunches + emailcreator partnershipsAI-agent workspace

2026 → now

Experiences · Tirana

Bike Tirana

It started with one bike. I rented out a couple more, then a few more, then a second city. Profitable from day one and growing every year since: from one or two tourists to two or three tours a day, around 10 to 15 riders daily from April to mid-October.

Tours, e-bikes, food rides, rentals and repairs. 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 one10–15 riders a day2 cities7 languages

year → now

Fitness community · Florence

Fighting & Breathing

Personal and group training with Florence as the backdrop: hills, rooftops, the river in the morning. People came for the workout and stayed for the view and each other. Also profitable from day one.

profitable from day onepersonal + group trainingFlorence, Italy

Italy

Local brands · Tirana

The neighbourhood

Some of the best work happens three streets from home. I've helped Tirana places people already love find a voice online that feels like walking in the door: social media, positioning, and training the team so it keeps working when I'm not in the room.

social mediapositioningteam training

Tirana

03 — Content

Attention, built by hand.

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 video10.9M

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: An AI startup for culturally aware therapy
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

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

One-person growth team for a SaaS product inside Publer.

2024 →

Vera

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

year

Bike Tirana

One bike, then two cities. Profitable from day one.

2022

Bus2alps

Intern to product manager and sales leader, running trips across Europe.

2020

Tiranawellness

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

Florence

Fighting & Breathing

Training with a view. Profitable from day one.

2014

Siena · Florence · London

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

06 — About

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

I've sold trips, tours, training sessions and software. The product changes. The job doesn't: make people notice something good, help them understand it, make it easy to buy.

I run marathons and I train like a fighter. Both taught me the same thing 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
Runs: Marathons which ones / PB
Open to: Growth roles, advisory, talks

07 — Finish line

Got something worth noticing?

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