Anna Minci
Entrepreneur | A.M.G. SOFTWARE S.R.L.
I'm Anna Minci, an entrepreneur with over forty years of experience building custom vertical software platforms for the automotive sector and various technical and insurance industries. A life spent among technology, workshops, digital solutions and people. A life built without any traditional entrepreneurial training, but learning through experience, one step at a time, often facing difficulties and choices alone.
In my sector competition is fierce, and people tend to protect their own space, which makes genuine dialogue a rare thing. For years I felt the lack of a place where I could openly talk about management problems, personal challenges, and the everyday doubts every entrepreneur experiences. I had ideas, vision and intuition, but there was often no solid bridge between what I imagined and what I needed to do to make it happen.
When Private Community was born, I was there from the very first moment. From the outset I sensed I was entering a space different from anything I'd known until then: an environment where dialogue between entrepreneurs was genuine, where sharing wasn't risky but valuable, and where I could bring my doubts and limitations without fear of being judged.
Within the community I finally learned to turn ideas into concrete plans. For years I'd been clear about the destination but not the steps; here I found method, clarity and a form of dialogue capable of giving structure to what had previously been only intuition.
But Private Community did even more: it allowed me to stop putting limits on my desires. I remember a specific moment, during a journey in Turin, when we were asked to imagine an ambitious dream. I said that one day I'd love to get on a stage and talk about artificial intelligence. It was a thought I'd always set aside, and yet, some time later, I actually found myself doing it. The community gave me the courage to recognise my aspirations and the strength to turn them into reality.
It also had a profound impact on my relationship with time. I belong to a generation where work comes before everything else, and taking a personal moment brings with it almost a sense of guilt. In Private Community I saw entrepreneurs able to stop, breathe, carve out space for themselves without feeling any less professional. This allowed me to recognise my own pace and to understand that you can't bring enthusiasm to a company if you're running on empty.
Combine®, the community's Artificial Intelligence tool, played an important role in my journey. For me it's become a daily support. It doesn't offer ready-made answers: it asks questions, often uncomfortable but illuminating. It helps me see new possibilities, blind spots, perspectives I would never have picked up on my own.
Private Community also transformed the way I lead. I've always had a strong sense of responsibility towards my staff, many of whom have been with me for twenty years. My emotional involvement, though, sometimes made it hard to keep a balance. In the community I learned to distinguish human closeness from the entrepreneurial role, protecting people without losing sight of the company's sustainability.
What I love most about Private is the humanity that runs through it.
People bring with them not just their professional role, but their personal side too. Vulnerabilities are welcomed, not judged. People engage with one another authentically, without filters. It's rare to find an environment where you can talk about your doubts knowing they'll be understood, not misread.
For all these reasons, Private Community has been — and continues to be — an accelerator of growth and a space of transformation for me. A place where the person comes before the role, and where professional and personal growth move forward together. Given everything it has given me, becoming a sponsor of the project felt natural: when you believe in something and live it in your own skin, supporting it and giving back becomes spontaneous.
Today I'm still very much myself — direct, emotional, intense — but with a new awareness, more balance and less loneliness. Private Community marked an important step on my path, bringing together vision and humanity in a way I had never experienced before.