Docsity [2021] May 2026

That email is still framed on the wall of Docsity’s headquarters.

One evening, frustrated and sleep-deprived, he threw his highlighter across the room. “There has to be a better way,” he muttered to his roommate, Enrico. docsity

By 2012, Docsity had exploded. It wasn’t just Turin anymore. Students from Milan, Rome, Naples, and Bologna were uploading everything from jurisprudence case briefs to organic chemistry reaction maps. The platform had over 200,000 documents. But with growth came a crisis. That email is still framed on the wall