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Who am I?

Co-founder & CEO at OpenBB

My journey.

    2024 πŸ—½ Moved with family again to be closer to customers in NYC.


    2023 πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ Moved with family to the Bay area, to be closer to tech founders and investors.


    2022 πŸ¦‹ Announced OpenBB to the world and rebranded the terminal - [announcement].


    2021 πŸ“ˆ We raised $8.9M in a seed round to democratize investment research.


    2021 🦍 Gamestonk Terminal was open source and went viral on Reddit and HackerNews.


    2020 🦠 During Xmas my flight got cancelled. So started building a financial terminal.


    2020 😀 Performing own investment research and frustrated by how time-consuming it was.


    2020 πŸƒ Joined startup NURVV and worked as Sensor Fusion Engineer [paper].


    2019 πŸŽ“ Wrote code behind my math teacher's thesis on Forecasting of Financial timeseries.


    2018 πŸš— Excited about AI and self-driving cars, worked as Software Engineer at u-blox.


    2017 πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Moved to London for a MSc. in Control Systems at Imperial College London [paper].


    2016 πŸ‡³πŸ‡± Did a semester in TU Delft and learned about self-driving cars.


    2013 πŸ“š BSc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at FCT-UNL.


    2003 πŸ‡΅πŸ‡Ή Moved to Portugal when I was 8yo.


    1995 πŸ‡¨πŸ‡­ I was born in Switzerland, but both my parents are Portuguese emmigrants.

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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!

I am available for 15 minutes calls as long as you set an agenda.

(and it is not a sales call)