My journey.
🇨🇭 I was born in Switzerland, but both my parents are Portuguese emmigrants.
🇵🇹 Moved to Portugal when I was 8yo and did a BSc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering.
🇳🇱 Did a semester in TU Delft and learned about self-driving cars.
🇬🇧 Moved to London to do an MSc. in Control Systems at Imperial College London [thesis].
🚗 Excited about AI and self-driving cars, so I worked as a Sensor Fusion Engineer [paper].
🎓 Wrote the code behind my math teacher's thesis on Forecasting of Financial timeseries.
😤 Performed my own investment research and got frustrated by how time-consuming it was.
🦠 During Covid my flight got cancelled over Xmas. So started building a financial terminal.
🦍 I made Gamestonk Terminal open source and we went viral on Reddit and HackerNews.
📈 We raised $8.9M in a seed round to democratize investment research.
🦋 Announced OpenBB to the world in 2022 and rebranded the terminal.
🇺🇸 Took my wife and dogs to live in the Bay area, to be closer to tech founders and investors.
🗽 Moved with my wife and dogs again to be closer to customers in NYC.
to be continued...
What I believe in.
"Open source is the most powerful idea of our generation." - Matt Mullenweg
Building an open-source legacy, one commit at a time. Follow my journey on GitHub.
Starting with the most open financial company: openbb.co/open.
Outside work?
In my spare time I like to do boxing, read books, play soccer or PS5 with wife.Nowadays I put work first. But I intend to travel to over 100 different countries.
Let's catch up!
(and it is not a sales call)