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🦉 Your Company's Most Unrecognizable Asset
Aluminati President Andrea Legnani speaks about the engine for growth that every company has, but most founders do not even realize is present.
Coeus Collective
June 11, 2025
Sunday marked the conclusion of New York Tech Week, where we hosted eight events on the official Andreessen Horowitz team’s Tech Week calendar and welcomed over one thousand founders, investors, and industry operators into New York City. Among our most memorable gatherings was our Aperitivo Night, which drew nearly 400 RSVPs for an evening of spritzes, conversation, and genuine connection at La Caverna in Manhattan.
A glimpse of Aperitivo Night.
But this isn't a story about our events. It's about a conversation that challenged everything we thought we knew about employee departures.
Aperitivo Night was made possible through our partnership with Aluminati, and it led us to sit down for an interview with the company's President, Andrea Legnani, who has spent years proving a counterintuitive truth: your ex-employees might be more valuable to your business than your current ones. Not in spite of leaving, but because of it.
Andrea scaled Citi's global alumni network to over 35,000 members and generated hundreds of millions in business value. His perspective on why companies should never really say goodbye to employees left us rethinking every departure we've ever witnessed, so we wanted to share his thoughts with you all.
Our conversation is live here on our YouTube channel, and we recommend you watch it. It's a strategic reframe that could change how you think about every person who walks in (and out) of your office door.
Today’s newsletter is a companion piece highlighting some of Andrea’s most prudent perspectives from our interview. Let’s get to it!
By Coeus Collective Co-Founders Antonio DiMeglio & Leon Li
The Misconception That’s Costing You
Most companies treat departing employees like closed chapters. There's the exit interview, the laptop return, the farewell drinks and then radio silence. The relationship, if it continues at all, becomes purely social. LinkedIn connections and holiday cards.
Andrea Legnani sees this as one of business's most expensive blind spots.
As President of Aluminati and the architect behind Citi's 35,000+ member alumni network, Andrea has spent years proving a counterintuitive truth: your ex-employees might be more valuable to your business than your current ones.
