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Marco Pugliese

Biography

I haven’t had many careers. I’ve had one obsession: to understand. Technology, aviation, law enforcement, media, entrepreneurship, education — from the outside, different lives. From the inside, one continuous journey, driven by the same hunger.


In every world I’ve worked in, the hardest problem was never technical. It was human — communication, trust, judgment, timing. My skill, if I have one, is seeing that pattern underneath the surface.


I’m a translator of judgment. I take lessons paid for at real cost, inside high-stakes worlds, and make them transferable — so you can decide well without having to live through the mistake yourself.

30

30

years across technology, aviation, law enforcement, media, entrepreneurship and education

years across technology, aviation, law enforcement, media, entrepreneurship and education

100%

100%

of students pass their exam on the first attempt — flight instructor since 2017

of students pass their exam on the first attempt — flight instructor since 2017

130

travelers guided on Teekonda and WeRoad trips, in five years

travelers guided on Teekonda and WeRoad trips, in five years

5

5

companies founded, spanning intelligence, media, mobility and travel


Plus: COO of an eVTOL mobility startup · host of "Quelli della Radio accanto", a science podcast · current lead of IT services for one of Italy's largest public institutions.


Plus: COO of an eVTOL mobility startup · host of "Quelli della Radio accanto", a science podcast · current lead of IT services for one of Italy's largest public institutions.

The throughline

The throughline

The pattern behind all of it lives in the Journal — one story at a time, each one tested against something that actually happened. This page tells you who. The Journal tells you how

The pattern behind all of it lives in the Journal — one story at a time, each one tested against something that actually happened. This page tells you who. The Journal tells you how

I founded Teekonda after five years coordinating WeRoad trips — watching travel built for one life stage get sold to people in a completely different one.

I founded Teekonda after five years coordinating WeRoad trips — watching travel built for one life stage get sold to people in a completely different one.

Most of the people I led over five years at WeRoad were well past their twenties — and group travel built for that age rarely fit them. Not because of stamina. Because a vacation means something different once life has already handed you harder problems to solve. Teekonda is the answer I built: small groups, boutique, unhurried — trips designed for people at the stage of life I’m actually living myself, not the one travel marketing usually assumes.

Most of the people I led over five years at WeRoad were well past their twenties — and group travel built for that age rarely fit them. Not because of stamina. Because a vacation means something different once life has already handed you harder problems to solve. Teekonda is the answer I built: small groups, boutique, unhurried — trips designed for people at the stage of life I’m actually living myself, not the one travel marketing usually assumes.

See what I built →

I’m opening up something most people will never otherwise touch: the chance to fly a faithful replica of a WWII P-51 Mustang.

I’m opening up something most people will never otherwise touch: the chance to fly a faithful replica of a WWII P-51 Mustang.

The SW51 is a 70% scale, all-carbon replica of the P-51 Mustang — accurate enough to be the closest most people will ever get to flying a real warbird. I want to open that experience up directly: not a museum piece, an actual flight, in something built to feel exactly like history. It’s the same principle behind The Guide — the edge has to be real to mean anything.

The SW51 is a 70% scale, all-carbon replica of the P-51 Mustang — accurate enough to be the closest most people will ever get to flying a real warbird. I want to open that experience up directly: not a museum piece, an actual flight, in something built to feel exactly like history. It’s the same principle behind The Guide — the edge has to be real to mean anything.

I’m conducting independent research into the ultralight helicopter market — work I intend to bring directly to Italy’s Aero Club (AeCI) once it’s ready.

I’m conducting independent research into the ultralight helicopter market — work I intend to bring directly to Italy’s Aero Club (AeCI) once it’s ready.

Choosing the right aircraft for an entire national category isn’t a spec-sheet exercise — it shapes what an entire generation of Italian pilots will fly for the next decade. I’m mapping what’s available now and where the category is actually heading, on my own initiative, with a set of recommendations I plan to submit to AeCI directly.

Choosing the right aircraft for an entire national category isn’t a spec-sheet exercise — it shapes what an entire generation of Italian pilots will fly for the next decade. I’m mapping what’s available now and where the category is actually heading, on my own initiative, with a set of recommendations I plan to submit to AeCI directly.

marco@marcopugliese.it

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