Dad. Entrepreneur. Angel Investor. Amateur tennis 🎾 player. 1st time Founder & CEO, currently running
@Pixelmatters_
— €21M in sales over 10 years in business.
Num dia aleatório em 2016 fiz-me sócio do
@FCPorto
. Apesar de não ser assíduo no estádio sabia que um dia essa condição ia ser importante. Assim foi. Esse dia é hoje. Paguei 946€ de quotas em atraso para me arriscar a potencialmente levar na tromba. Mas está feito! 🗳️ Confio que
@insoniascarvao
Apesar de ser um meme e ter piada, comento só para dizer a quem possa estar a ver isto e a pensar em vir ou não vir votar, que felizmente isto é só mesmo um meme e muito longe da realidade! Acabei de votar e posso dizer que está tudo bem organizado, ordeiro e civilizado. Não
@gigicat7_
He isn’t a spectacular player, but it’s clearly a mental issue. He seems defeated right from the start against those 3. Completely different posture than playing with anyone else.
@jeremybernier
It was like this in 2016 when I first visited, which was shocking. The difference is that back then nobody would even speak about it, it was tabu. The pandemic changed that, even though the issue itself clearly remains
A alta taxa de emigração de jovens qualificados do país tem estado na ordem do dia. 🇵🇹
E justifica-se, pois realmente é uma verdadeira tragédia nacional.
Gostaria de partilhar uma situação real, que apesar de felizmente não ser um caso de emigração direta (pelo menos para já),
Bem, isto explodiu não sei bem como. 😅
Para que fique claro, este “levar na tromba” era apenas uma piada, uma brincadeira, em face dos receios dos últimos dias. Votei com toda a segurança, correu tudo impecavelmente bem.
Quanto às quotas em atraso, é o que é, estão pagas e
@MigCMatos
Bom tweet, Luís Paixão Martins. 👏 Já em clara preparação pré-eleitoral para pôr o país a escolher entre os salvadores da democracia (PS) e os fascistas (tudo o resto). Bravo.
I can’t believe I just had lunch with the legends
@afonsolfm
,
@vascoabm
and
@cisco_raio
🤯💯
We spoke about AI, building a business, getting rich,
@miguel_milhao
and the fact that
@elisab_sousa
is a meme and these folks thought it was a legit political campaign, how to eat fish
@eastdakota
@paulg
Agree. On the day I started my company, Pixelmatters, I asked my mom: “Mom, if everything goes totally wrong, will you give me a place to stay and something to eat?” She said yes. That was and still is my safety net.
My daughter was born last Tuesday.
Today I saw my new house decorated for the 1st time.
Tomorrow it’s my 32nd birthday.
Next weekend I move in to the new house. A process that started in Nov 2017.
Everything happening at the same time. What an emotional phase. 🥹
Yesterday I sent an email to +100 people that applied to work at
@pixelmatters_
but didn't hear from us in 3 months or more. Finding a job is hard. The way a company treats its candidates is a tremendous sign of its culture. We may make mistakes, but we care.
De mi anuncio del viernes… algunas explicaciones esta semana. Aquí la primera:
👉🏻 Tengo y he tenido miedo de anunciar las cosas. Me ha causado miedo querer anunciar algo sin estar seguro al 100%…
👉🏻 Creo que estoy preparado y confío y espero que las cosas vayan bien y que me
🇵🇹 Portugal has a big problem with entrepreneurs and a very complicated relationship with money. 💵
We turn anyone who builds a company and gets rich into a demon.
It's almost forbidden to get rich in Portugal! 🤯
@Joana_Sousa_81
Mundo pequeno. Vou lá todas as semanas. Qualidade dos produtos incrível. Muitos parabéns pelo projeto e força empreendedora 👏👏 Agora vou passar a ir lá ainda com mais “vontade”! 😅
Tudo isto seria minimizado facilmente se fosse como no ténis.
Cada equipa teria 3 “challenges” por jogo, onde podia utilizar o VAR e obrigar o árbitro a re-analisar um lance.
Deixava de existir subjetividade na decisão de “re-analisar” ou não os lances.
It's been a while since I made an appreciation post, so here's one! 🏅
This week,
@swordhealth
, a healthcare company founded in Portugal, by Portuguese founders 🇵🇹 and currently valued at $3B, announced the distribution of 51 Million Euros in a secondary shares sale to ~100 of
O estado da Nação 🇵🇹
Escrevo este post no seguimento das "prendas aos jovens" anunciadas por
@antoniocostapm
na semana passada.
Fiquei estupefacto com esse anúncio, mas sendo apenas mais uma esmola socialista com vista a aumentar a dependência do Estado, o que me leva a
This Friday, this table will be packed with fourteen Portuguese Founders. 🔥
We're throwing off the 2nd edition of our exclusive, in-person, intimate, and invite-only event, Tech Founders Club, this time in... Lisbon! 🇵🇹
I'm stoked about the group we've put together, and super
Gave a talk at the
@UnivAveiro
yesterday, attending "2024 National Meeting of Design Students".🎙
My talk was "Entering the job market: Portfolio Roast Edition". 🔥
I provided real-time and unfiltered feedback to students in the audience who had previously submitted their
How crazy it is that I was just at a dinner with folks like
@marcelo_lebre
@diogomonica
@goncalossilva
@patife
and other incredible folks 🤯 the world is such a small place, and we Portuguese may be so few, but boy, we’re fucking good at what we do.
I’m super bullish on
It’s my baby boy 1st bday today. Nothing in life compares to parenthood. ❤️ This year has by far been the happiest of my life, even with a pandemic going on. Totally in love with the little guy. Look forward to continuing building up the family 🤞😍
Great personal milestone today 🚜
I’ve bought a piece of land almost 3 years ago. Had to go through the architecture & paperwork process and only now the construction is starting.
So, to me this is a beautiful image 😍
Yesterday, I had the pleasure of hosting a Tech Founders Club lunch @ Porto. 🇵🇹
Curious about how "this thing" was born? Read on. ⤵️
Over the past few months, I’ve been meeting several Founders. Folks simply got in touch with me after seeing a post of mine on LinkedIn or
Yesterday,
@pixelmatters_
turned 8! 🎉
8yrs is already something. Today, we're considered a market reference and that's because of our team. The culture and the top-notch work they all do.
There's an exciting future ahead, but lots to be proud of looking at the present & past.
Yesterday, we turned 8! 🎉
And what a journey it has been! 8 awesome years of learnings, adventures, and stories to tell and remember.
Thank you to everyone on our team, our partners, clients, and friends. We can’t wait for the next 8 ones 🚀
My decade in review:
🙄 Started unemployed
🛠 Carpenter for 6mo
🙌🏼 Found my 1st design job
🌍 Left, was about to immigrate
🎨 Found 2nd job on design, decided to stay 🇵🇹
🚙 Bought a car
❤️ Found the love of my life
⚡️ Started a 7 figure business
@pixelmatters_
Still buzzing from last Friday's edition of the Tech Founders Club lunch @ Lisbon. 🔥
Knowing how precious time is, I'm blown away by the level and quality of the Founders that we've managed to sit down together for ~3 to 5 hours.
The magnitude of talent, wisdom and
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@TalentProtocol
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@pcbo
!
@saidadeumlivro
Muito bem. Quem o conhece bem já tinha demonstrado essa preocupação. Esperemos que tenha as pessoas certas junto de si e, quem sabe, continuar de alguma forma a fazer parte da vida do clube. 🙏
Officially closed up
@pixelmatters_
office yesterday. We’ll stay fully remote until early 2021, when our new one will be ready.
My thoughts on the future of work:
Just published an article stating
@pixelmatters_
approach towards remote work. It includes the context, the present, and the future. Happy to answer any questions! 🙂
Remote as default, office as an option. Our remote work approach
Portugal is in lockdown for almost 3mo now. Tomorrow it starts to be lifted.
Today is Easter. (At least) two of my neighbors are throwing parties with 10+ people.
I’ve went for a walk and, no doubts, at least 75% of the people were unmasked.
O problema do logo são as palavras, não o símbolo gráfico.
Se junto ao novo logo dissesse Governo Português, aí uma representação mais artística da bandeira não seria (tão) polémico, dado que um Governo não é um “país” mas sim apenas um orgão de soberania.
Mas quando se diz que
O maior legado que
@antoniocostapm
vai deixar é só um: a total normalização do não assumir qualquer tipo de responsabilidade, nunca, em qualquer circunstância.
Nunca tem conhecimento de nada, nunca falou com ninguém, não tem amigos.
Questiono-me sobre o impacto que esta forma
10 years of
@pixelmatters_
without going bankrupt.
Yesterday, we celebrated, we chatted, we partied, we hugged. We had fun!
It was beautiful. Here's to the next decade! 🥂 🚀
From one employee, zero in revenue, zero in investment into being a fully independent, bootstrapped, profitable team of +30, in 5 years. Feeling proud and grateful 🙂
Today, we turn 5 🎉
5 years ago, we couldn’t imagine being here writing this. As some of the best things that happen in life, it all started quite accidentally. All of the sudden.. here we are, a team of more than 30 incredibly talented, passionate and generous human beings.
Here's my take on
@farfetch
.
I feel sorry for all the people who have lost their jobs this week or over the past few months. Not only employees but also contractors and the like. I hope everyone finds another job soon, and in the case of the Portuguese folks, I hope people stay
Today is a very special day.
@rubrikInc
is the first
@pixelmatters_
client ever to go public. 🎉
For us, this journey started on September 3rd, 2015.
@rubrikInc
was a small startup of 30-50 people with little to no revenue. Today, it does $784m in ARR.
It all started with a
I run a Portuguese 🇵🇹company for 6 years that has 95% of clients based in the US 🇺🇸 I only went there three times, and always just for a few days.
COVID-19 will help people understand that in-person meetings are a *nice to have* not something *required* to do good business.
By the 2nd week of July, in a matter 2 weeks, I’ll become a dad for the 2nd time and move to a new house that it’s being built for the past 2 years.
Obviously ir wasn’t supposed to be this way, but you know, life happens. Wish me luck! 😂
I’m the CEO of a 50-person company and today, I’ve printed this page to allow me better understand numbers in English when making a call. Just to be sure I don’t get the client budget with one less or one more zero than what it actually is. 😇
@dhh
Your strategy is so boring. It's always the same: picking an enemy everywhere, every day.
This has nothing to do with Figma, just with your roles' nomenclatures. Call them what they are, web developers. Not web designers.
Last week, at
@pixelmatters_
we launched the new
@glean
website 🔥
We're excited to partner with an AI-driven that's building a product around enterprise-grade generative AI search capabilities for the modern workplace.
Direct link 🔗
My 4-year-old boy stayed at my mom's house last Saturday...meaning that we stayed with our 1.5-year-old daughter during that night and the following morning.
My gosh, after you have more than 1 kid, staying with just one feels like a breeze. It feels like vacations 😂
I wonder
The single best thing you can do for your mental health is to have a of supportive, empathic, caring group of friends you regularly interact with.
It’s challenging, takes intentionality, but possible.
I am grateful. 🙏
One of the companies I admire the most these days is
@figma
⭐️
I’m stunned by the quality and pace of innovation they’re able to ship, even (now) being a large company. 🤯 It’s amazing.
Just last week, at their annual conference 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗶𝗴 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯, they announced 🧵
📱Launched a product that failed
@get_Finta
🏠 Bought an house
🏎 Sold the 1st car and got a new one
✈️ Visited 20 countries, 4 continents, only Ocenia left
👶🏻 Became a dad
...clearly, the very best was saved for later. 🙂
Looking forward to the next decade! 🔥
This weekend I did something I wanted to do for a while now: hosted a lunch at my place with a private chef. What an amazing experience.
If you can, do it. Don’t think about the money. Simply enjoy the moment. It’s 100% worth it✨
A propósito da dívida que saldei para poder votar nas eleições do
@FCPorto
, a rádio
@observadorpt
ligou-me para dizer umas coisas sobre o assunto.
Foram 10min de conversa no parque de estacionamento do Pingo Doce. 😂
Podem ouvir aqui ⬇️
We —
@pixelmatters_
— will be launching our first-ever podcast (with video) today. It's a mini-series in the context of our 10th anniversary 🎂 stay tuned!
Dado o contexto de isolamento social atualmente em vigor, acabei de anunciar as seguintes medidas para toda a equipa da
@pixelmatters_
. ⬇️
Neste momento sensível, devemos ser gratos e lembrarmo-nos o quão privilegiados somos por trabalharmos na área tecnológica.
It's still Thursday, and this week alone, at
@pixelmatters_
we've already refused two interesting projects from two different companies. Both of them valued in hundres of millions of dollars. Combined, these would probably generate +€100k in revenue.
We might not yet know but
@OpenAI
keynote announcements yesterday have changed the world once again. ⚡️
An example of one of the many impressive demos is the one below.
It shows how AI will impact education. How people learn. The role of the teacher. 🧠
As always with these
Did you hear?
@OpenAI
's newest model can reason across audio, vision, and text in real time.
How does GPT-4o do with math tutoring?🤔
@salkhanacademy
and his son test it on a Khan Academy math problem.
You can get AI-powered math tutoring right now with Khanmigo:
I find myself regularly “frozen”, just looking at my 16mo old boy for several minutes, simply for the pleasure of doing so, enjoying the moment and how lucky I am to be there, on that moment, with him. ❤️ Can’t recommend it enough.
If you have kids, you gotta start doing this with your partner. 😍
We call it 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗗𝗮𝘆 𝗢𝗳𝗳 but name it whatever you'd like!
It's basically taking a day or an afternoon off every month or so, just to be together, alone, as a couple. 💌
Sounds basic, right?
A young Swedish guy, living in Porto for a few months, told me Portugal & Porto 🇵🇹 offer better quality of living than in Sweden, being safety a big part of this. I was surprised…
.
@dribbble
blog homepage is all about
@pixelmatters_
today. What a moment! 💫👏🚀
How one freelance designer used Dribbble to build a global product studio
Back in 2016, this was the back of my laptop during a trip to the Bay Area 🇺🇸 The idea was that *anyone* on Starbucks or other place, could actually be a potential
@pixelmatters_
client. It didn’t work, but it’s a fun memory. This is what hustling is all about! 💪
We just announced a new Financial Dashboard to the
@pixelmatters_
team today, following a previous announcement of an Annual Bonus, which essentially consists of a profit-sharing model that we implemented for the first time in 2022. 💰
Different reasons, but definitely one thing in common: we didn't felt our team would appreciate or enjoy working on it.
One of our values is "People come first. Happy clients and unhappy team? No, not here. Not with us."
@carlosgpinto
Infelizmente não é bem a mesma coisa. A medida do OE é muito mais complexa e com muitas exceções. Mais mixórdia fiscal.
Conheço vários casos de malta a tentar arrancar empresas que tem (como toda a gente) dificuldade em arrendar casa. Ideologicamente, ficam excluídos desta
A revolution is happening, there's no doubt about that. But I keep believing in the idea that AI won't replace you, a person using AI will.
I also don't buy the notion that junior developers are fucked up and there's no space for them anymore. A junior dev with the right
Today we're excited to introduce Devin, the first AI software engineer.
Devin is the new state-of-the-art on the SWE-Bench coding benchmark, has successfully passed practical engineering interviews from leading AI companies, and has even completed real jobs on Upwork.
Devin is
Closing the work-week with two contracts signed 🎁
1️⃣ A new exciting enterprise software client.
2️⃣ A multidisciplinary team assignment for a year, that will last until Feb 2022.
Good signs for 2021! 🔥
@pixelmatters_
We just launched a new case study at
@pixelmatters_
today 🔥
Abaca product design & development 👉
Likely one of our best projects done to date. A thread...
The company I've started,
@pixelmatters_
, has officially turned 10 a couple of days ago. 🎉
10 years without going bankrupt!
Here are some crazy stats:
🤝 120 clients, across all continents in the world
👩💻 ~ 60 employees currently
👥 ~ 135 people worked here so far
💰 ~
Today we're (soft) launching a new 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀 page on
@pixelmatters_
website 🔥
Over the past few years, we've been so focused and busy serving clients that we neglected having a page on the website that actually shows...what we do! 🤯
That's now changing. We have more