Designer
Builder
Entrepreneur
Investor
Brazilian
American

I’m a Brazilian/American Designer, Entrepreneur, and Investor, based in Los Angeles, CA. I have previously lived in New York City, San Francisco, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and Campinas. I’m a self-taught Designer and Developer, and learned most of what I know from the Internet. I’ve been designing, coding, and starting businesses since I was 12 years old. I never went to college, and instead pursued my own path.

I started my own design practice when I as 12, and built websites for clients around the world. At age 18, I joined Globo, Brazil's larges media company as a product designer. At age 20, I was recruited by Evan Williams to be Twitter’s first product designer.  I left Brazil and moved to San Francisco. I joined the company in 2008 to work alongside founders Evan Williams, Biz Stone, and Jack Dorsey. Over period of 4.5 years, I helped the company grow from 10 to 3000 employees, and the product grow from 1,000s to 200,000,000 users.

After leaving Twitter, I co-founded Envoy, I was the first Designer at Twitter (Now X). I joined the company in 2008 to work alongside founders Evan Williams, Biz Stone, and Jack Dorsey. Over period of 4.5 years, I helped the company grow from 10 to 3000 employees, and the product grow from 1,000s to 200,000,000 users.
Before Twitter, I Designed products which were used by millions of people in Brazil. Globo Corporation is the largest media conglomerate in Latin America and among the biggest in the world.
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I’m a Co-founder and Partner at Expa, a studio of startups. Expa was founded by Garrett Camp (co-founder of Uber). Over the last decade, we’ve raised and deployed $350M towards the creation of category-defining companies like Metabase, Current, Collective, Aero, Eco, Layer and investments in 200+ companies including Prometheus.

Before Expa, I co-founded Envoy, the visitor registration app. I designed its flagship product and brand, acquired and supported early customers. Envoy raised over $170M from investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Menlo Ventures, and Initialized Capital.

Before Envoy, I was the first Designer at Twitter (Now X). I joined the company in 2008 to work alongside founders Evan Williams, Biz Stone, and Jack Dorsey. Over period of 4.5 years, I helped the company grow from 10 to 3000 employees, and the product grow from 1,000s to 200,000,000 users.
Before Twitter, I Designed products which were used by millions of people in Brazil. Globo Corporation is the largest media conglomerate in Latin America and among the biggest in the world.

I've personally invested in over 25 startups and funds, including Spline.com (Seed investor), LiveKit.io (Pre-seed investor), Beacon.com (Series B investor), Tribe.Ai (Seed investor), Compound.finance (Pre-seed investor), Eco.com (Investor/Advisor to founding team), Rye.com (Pre-seed investor), Omni.app (Seed investor), JourneyColab.com (Series A investor), Mercurial.finance (Pre-seed investor), SuperHi.com (Pre-seed investor), AuraFrames.com (Advisor to founding team), Every.org (Advisor), Interseller.io (Pre-seed investor), Atlantico.vc (Fund investor), Canary.vc (Fund investor), GreyMatterCapital.com (Fund investor), Expa.com (Fund investor).