I’m a Portuguese entrepreneur and product builder passionate about learning, self-improvement and leaving a long lasting positive impact on humanity. I have so much fun doing it that I enjoy the journey more than the outcome. I’ve previously co-founded Portal da Sabedoria, the largest e-learning platform in Portugal with certified peer to peer content that has helped thousands of students graduate from high-school and college. I also co-founded and bootstrapped LINK Agency: we build viral brand presences on TikTok and have generated over 3B organic impressions for our clients. Since last year, Harrison and I have been working on the crypto space launching the first NFT marketplace with legal licensing and patent-pending smart contracts, a collection, and advising multiple projects.
Education: Masters in Physics, Stanford MBA
Others: Former BCG Consultant; Venture Capital & Private Equity investor; Forbes 30U30 lister.
I’m an entrepreneur and active investor passionate about globalization and being people-first in everything I do. Having participated in two IPO processes and two startup formations, I developed a knack for both business development and consumer & investor marketing. My passion for people and innovation drew me to the startup world, where I learned the value of being mission-driven and surrounding yourself with the right people. Applying this perspective to all facets of life drew me toward a career in building and investing in education. Over the past year, Francisco and I have been entrenched in web3, launching and advising various projects as well as attending several conferences to meet and collaborate with the great builders and thinkers in the space.
Education: Columbia MBA, Cornell undergrad
Others: Former EY Consultant; Venture Capital investor (E-learning company Subject)
DC Builder lives to make the world better. He is passionate about math, cryptography, and fundamentals of software development, including of course blockchain. DC Builder is a research engineer at Alongside, co-organized Eth Prague, and started devpill.me, a learning resource aggregator for blockchain development.
Jorge is a Rust and Solidity developer. Previously, he has a data scientist/software engineer at an hedge fund, specialized in energy markets. Jorge has a broad technical background which encompasses backend development, data science/data engineering as well as software development and DevOps. He is experienced with node.js, JavaScript/TypeScript, Solidity, hardhat, ethers, Python, PostgresSQL, GCP, Git, Docker and Linux as well as most of the data science Python libraries (Pandas, numpy, pytorch, tensorflow, etc), express.js, Web3, NoSQL (especially MongoDB/DynamoDB), as well as cloud technologies such as AWS, GCP, Terraform, Packer, Redis, Kubernetes, Docker at the DevOps side.
Prior to diving into software development, Jorge was a mathematical research post-doctoral fellow at Institut de Recherches Mathemátiques Avancées (Université de Strasbourg). And before, I completed a PhD in pure mathematics under the supervision of Bertrand Toën, recipient of senior European Research Council and the Sophie Germain price.
Education: Math PhD, masters and undergrad