Salvatore Aranzulla

Salvatore Aranzulla (born 24 February 1990) is an Italian blogger and entrepreneur. He is a well-known popularizer and author of problem solving tutorials for information technology (especially software) by the general Italian public.

Early life and education

Born in Mirabella Imbaccari, a Sicilian hamlet, by parents Giovanni and Maria in a family of four children; his three brothers are Giuseppe, Davide, and Elia. His father was a nurse in Caltagirone hospital and the mother a housekeeper. He attended the scientific high school in Piazza Armerina.

In 2008, he moved to Milan to study at Bocconi University, where he graduated in 2015.

When he was 12, he started reading through the net and soon he began looking after a newsletter and a blog where he published practical advice on solving computer problems, thus becoming the youngest popularizer in Italy. As a teenager, he was also active as a bug hunter for some major websites and web browsers.

Popularization activities

Website

His blog had about 300,000 monthly readers between 2007 and 2008. When Aranzulla needed money to go to the university, he started using Google Ads.

In 2016 the readers became 9 million every month, with 20 million page views, and about 500,000 daily in 2015 and 2018 thanks to an accurate use of SEO.

In 2018 the website ranked in the top 30 in Italy (first in the general field of "Information Technology" and with a 40% quota of the "computer news" sector) and in March 2019, it ranked 57th in Italy.