Filippo Corbelli has had no fixed address for two years, and this summer he landed in Cambridge with the fintech he helps run. The company joined a university-based startup accelerator at King's College. He relocates every few months, and he says the lifestyle he has crafted for himself is not look but is the result of working out exactly what his money lets him do.
Corbelli is head of product at Moola, a London fintech co-founded by Linda Du. The company grew out of spreadsheets that she and Corbelli, both McKinsey alumni, built to answer friends’ questions about money, and in July it won Best Fintech Solution at the UK Business Tech Awards. He has lived in 11 countries and visited more than 60.
In conversation he talks about why people treat their situation as temporary, why a high income can hide a lot of trouble, and what happens when careful Italian savers, who trust the mattone (bricks and mortar), keep everything in cash waiting for a decision they never make. He also explains why he has never really left Italy.
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