Paolo Marchegiani
Entrepreneur
The story of Paolo Marchegiani CEO | Elettro 2000 TLC S.R.L.
My name is Paolo Marchegiani and I am the CEO and sole partner of Elettro 2000 TLC S.R.L., a company with over thirty years of history and thirty-two people who work with me every day. We primarily operate in the healthcare sector: we create complex systems for hospitals, operating rooms, clinics, and inpatient wards. It is a sector that requires precision, responsibility, and speed. It is not uncommon for administrations to accelerate everything they have postponed from mid-October to the end of the year, and that period becomes a continuous whirlwind of deadlines, decisions, and urgencies for me.
I started my professional life as an electrician. In the '80s, I was the guy with a screwdriver in hand, learning by watching, doing, and making mistakes. Then, step by step, I had to transform: first as a technician, then a reference point, and today as CEO. This journey was not an abrupt climb, but a natural evolution, made of increasing responsibilities and, above all, people to guide.
Despite this growth, I always thought I was self-sufficient. That I could navigate, decide, and understand what to do. Then I encountered Private Community.
My entry was born out of curiosity, thanks to a course on the four character aspects held by Monica Passini. I was struck by how that path shed light on parts of myself that I had never really considered. As I delved deeper, I got to know Monica and Dario Castagna better, and from there I approached the Community. From the very beginning, I realized that Private is not just a group of entrepreneurs: it is a space where confrontation becomes growth, where the experience of others does not overwhelm you, but accompanies you.
What I found in Private is something I hadn't found elsewhere. A safe place, free of judgment, where you can share successes and difficulties with people who live the same tension, the same responsibility, the same doubts. An environment where you are not "the CEO who must have all the answers," but simply a person on a journey.
Thanks to this continuous exchange, in recent years I have experienced profound change. Not only personally, but also in business: revenue has doubled. Not because I had set it as a goal, but because I started to improve my approach, my vision, my way of being in things. The economic result came as a natural consequence.
One of the most important projects I carried out thanks to Private is the creation of the new company headquarters. For years, I never gave much importance to the office: working with public administrations, I always made the best deals "outside," in other people's places. Then something changed. I felt the need to create a real home for the company. So I purchased a 6,800 square meter plot and designed four warehouses, one of which will become our new headquarters: a thousand square meters of offices and operational spaces ready by 2026. This project, which might have remained in a drawer for years, found the rhythm, support, and continuity necessary to become real in Private.
Another change, seemingly simpler but crucial for me, concerns the relationship with time and the phone. For years, constant calls, messages, and notifications created anxiety for me. Today my phone is silent: it doesn't vibrate, it doesn't ring, it doesn't chase me. I respond to everything, but I do it on my own time. I have educated people to contact not only me but also those in the company who can be of help. This has restored a serenity I didn't know I had lost.
The greatest achievement has been learning to give new value to time. At 52, I realized that the most precious asset is not revenue, but quality of life. So today I plan my personal time first and only then my work time. I am passionate about music, concerts, and theater: in a year, I attend ten shows and about fifteen concerts, even abroad. I love traveling with my family, and I often turn rewards obtained from suppliers into travel opportunities, thus linking work to rewards that nurture my well-being.
Private helped me see what I previously ignored: that an entrepreneur does not grow only when the numbers of their company increase, but when they improve the quality of their life, their ability to choose, to give themselves direction.
The Mindset & Skillset Booster courses were a turning point. In those two intense days, I began to look back to understand who I really was and why. I laid the first points of my vision, a vision that today, thanks also to Combine®, is clear, structured, and represents who I am and what I want to build.
From this inner work also came the desire to give back value. I started writing a book that is not about me to celebrate myself, but that aims to be a help for young people and entrepreneurs. Similarly, I am designing the Elettro 2000 Academy, an initiative dedicated to young people entering the workforce, to fill that gap of guidance, goals, and motivation I see in the new generations.
At a certain point in life, you don't stop growing: you start giving back. And Private, for me, has been just that: a place to grow, build, question oneself, imagine projects I would never have had the courage to start alone.
Today I know that when we improve ourselves, the people around us also improve. And when people feel better, the company grows too, almost naturally. In that harmony that, deep down, every entrepreneur seeks.