Dad, Entrepreneur, Investor, Amateur tennis 🎾 player Founder @Pixelmatters_ & @PixelVentures_ & @joinUpsideClub 💸 €30M in sales over the past 12y

Portugal 🇵🇹
Joined July 2009
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So many people looking for work on LinkedIn. Just looked it up... 220 million+ using “Open to Work," up 35% since January. hard market.
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2 hours ago, Anthropic filed for an IPO. We went through the S-1 and broke it down in 6 charts:
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Any form of security through obscurity is fully over. This barely worked as a method with humans, but just simply is over in a world of autonomous systems that will look through every crevice and try every permutation of attack possible. As a result, years and years of legacy enterprise infrastructure will need to be upgraded, security practices modernized, data pipelines cleaned up, access controls better managed, and much more. Agents will help on the defensive side because they can both accelerate this work and equally simulate the risk vectors. But there’s a long road ahead to prepare for this future. This is also partially why diffusion timelines will take longer than some realize.
a lot of old software was protected by “exploiting this would be an unreasonable amount of work” we have invented a machine that does unreasonable amounts of work anyway how’s the patch backlog
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André Oliveira retweeted
🚨 THE INTERNET IS FACING ONE OF THE WORST WAVES OF CYBERSECURITY THREATS EVER. More than 20 major cyber incidents and security warnings have been reported in recent days, affecting banks, governments, cloud platforms and widely used software. And some of the details are shocking. 1. PHP, used by a huge part of the web, had 2 critical flaws (CVSS 9.2) that let attackers run code remotely 2. Governments in 9+ countries took websites offline as a precaution, including France, the Netherlands, Finland, Germany, Belgium, Denmark and the UK 3. eMudhra, a certificate authority, had the keys of 8 certificates exposed. One key was the number 4 4. Railway says hackers may have accessed decrypted customer secrets 5. Zeabur was breached, with 321,810 accounts affected, and is shutting down 6. Japan's Onamae Desktop Cloud stopped up to 26,739 servers after malware was found 7. LiteLLM, a popular AI library, was poisoned and stole cloud and AI keys 8. OVHcloud's CLI tool was backdoored 9. GitLab disclosed a CVSS 10 flaw that lets attackers take over servers without logging in 10. State Bank of India confirmed 3,897 customer records on the dark web 11. Data of California students was stolen from ETS, with the intruder inside for about 4 months 12. Bullhorn took its platform offline after a cyber incident 13. Palo Alto firewalls are still being exploited by ransomware groups Qilin and Inc 14. Researchers say AI agents were used to target 400+ banks and payment companies in Latin America 15. Axios reports US banks are finding unauthorized AI agents inside customer accounts 16. Reuters reports one hacker used AI agents to break into 100+ company websites, including Deere
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as bad as things have gotten in the past 4 days, they are going to get a lot worse before they get better. security leaders, never let a crisis go to waste: please go to your boards and ask for help right now. not for ai, for the basics. (we need to hold on for ~18 months.)
The vulnerability tsunami is coming in just a few months and there won’t be enough time to patch critical infrastructure. Network isolation described below (air-gaps and data diodes!) needed now!
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André Oliveira retweeted
Mission S. Authentic. Consistent. Timeless. A glimpse into the future - shaped by our heritage. Mid-engine architecture. A focus on the driver and the driving experience. Call it a love letter.
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Castle's High-Yield product keeps growing as we approach the Oct. 15 record date for $STRC. Total AUM is up 115% in the past 3 weeks
We’re seeing strong momentum from Castle customers allocating capital to $STRC and choosing to convert 100% of their dividends to Bitcoin since the official rollout of the High-Yield for both Individuals and businesses. High-Yield AUM is growing nicely !
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Last week in Porto some Upside founders spoke with Team Genesis from Morais Leitão, on stock options and taxation. This kind of access used to mean knowing someone who knew someone. Upside exists to change that. Thanks Maria Gouveia & Isabel Carneiro Kahlen 🙏
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André Oliveira retweeted
What the Pixelmatters team shipped with AI last week. Side quests count too 🛠️
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We built Spinnable with 21 AI teammates and ONLY 5 humans Now you can scale your team without adding headcount too! Сomment TEAMMATE below to get 50% off on your first month. more info 🧵👇
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André Oliveira retweeted
🟢 UPDATE: Our Irkutsk 'plague' tracker has been continuously monitoring reports for any credible information, and our assessment of LOW credibility remains unchanged. Our assessment will update in real-time, if warranted. Bookmark our tracker here. irkutsk.america2.news/
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André Oliveira retweeted
We created gyms because modern day work no longer required physical activity. Without exercise, our muscles atrophy. I predict we’ll need gyms for our brains too, once AI starts doing our knowledge work.
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André Oliveira retweeted
O comunicado de imprensa dos meus advogados, Francisco Teixeira da Mota, Luísa Teixeira da Mota, William Bourdon e Vincent Brengarth, relativamente às acções vergonhosas tomadas contra mim pelo Estado português na quarta-feira: COMUNICADO DE IMPRENSA Lisboa e Paris, 2 de outubro de 2026 Fim da proteção de Rui Pinto: os seus advogados apelam às autoridades portuguesas para que reconsiderem uma decisão com consequências gravíssimas Rui Pinto, o denunciante que esteve na origem do Football Leaks, foi notificado, na passada quarta-feira, de que o programa especial de segurança de que beneficia desde agosto de 2020 terminará no próximo dia 10 de outubro. Dentro de poucos dias, sem ter sido previamente ouvido, como a lei exige, perderá a residência protegida e confidencial que lhe foi atribuída e será obrigado a encontrar, com urgência, uma nova habitação, sem qualquer garantia de que a proteção policial se mantenha. A sua situação é agora crítica. As ameaças de que é alvo não são meramente teóricas: em abril passado, foi agredido em Lisboa. As suas revelações envolveram figuras poderosas e dotadas de vastos recursos, e muitos dos processos judiciais delas decorrentes continuam ainda em curso, como demonstra a decisão proferida há apenas alguns dias pela comissão independente da Premier League relativamente ao Manchester City. Privado abruptamente da sua residência protegida e colocado numa situação de extrema precariedade, Rui Pinto ficará agora mais vulnerável do que em qualquer outro momento desde 2020. Rui Pinto cooperou com a justiça portuguesa, e foi precisamente essa cooperação que justificou a sua integração num programa de proteção. As suas revelações, utilizadas por numerosas autoridades judiciais, fiscais e desportivas em toda a Europa, a começar por França, contribuíram para reforçar a transparência e a integridade no futebol. Os Estados que beneficiaram da sua atuação não podem simplesmente virar as costas à pessoa que assumiu os riscos necessários para trazer estes factos à luz do dia. Nos termos da lei, será interposto recurso administrativo desta decisão, com efeito suspensivo. Os advogados de Rui Pinto, confiando em que as autoridades portuguesas dariam a devida consideração à sua situação, solicitaram, na passada quarta-feira, ao Ministério da Justiça que reconsiderasse esta decisão, que divulgasse os elementos da reavaliação do risco em que a mesma se baseou, que o seu constituinte fosse ouvido e que garantisse, em qualquer caso, a continuidade da sua proteção. Até ao momento, não foi recebida qualquer resposta. Esta decisão e a forma como foi tomada, não respeita, lamentavelmente, o Estado de Direito e constitui um ato de terrorismo de Estado. Não podemos aceitá-lo. Francisco Teixeira da Mota Luisa Teixeira da Mota William Bourdon Vincent Brengarth
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André Oliveira retweeted
Muita gente ficou feliz com a fuga de Cristiano Ronaldo da seleção. Duvido que alguém esteja mais feliz do que a esmagadora maioria dos outros jogadores da seleção.
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André Oliveira retweeted
A take that I haven’t seen is the pressure that lands on legacy enterprises and businesses because of this launch! Users and clients will no longer tolerate terrible interfaces if even the government pulls this type of UX. The bar just got a lot higher on what people expect when using an online service.
Chief Design Officer @jgebbia officially unveils America.gov, the new online home for the United States of America
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I think we have a problem
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I'm convinced the majority of the most interesting breakthroughs are emerging properties of a group that are not pre-planned or defined a priori. Like how The Beatles wrote most of their songs. Look at Paul, jamming into the song. Start with a fragment, a chord progression, move to a melody line and let the song develop naturally through group interaction. You need that group chemistry and taste to decide where you want to go. Greatness emerges from the collective conversation/collaboration. It can't be planned.
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André Oliveira retweeted
📣 We're bringing @TheLeadDev Meetups to Porto!! 📣 Porto has grown into a strong engineering hub over the last few years. I'd love to help it become a phenomenal talent community for tech leadership too, and that starts with having the right forums to grow together. AI is changing how we work, how we organise ourselves, and what’s expected of each role. Layers are collapsing, and many of us are rethinking what an engineer, a tech lead, a staff engineer or an engineering manager is responsible for. The goal hasn't changed: build great products that customers love. But how we build, and how we lead (as ICs or as managers), is changing fast. I don't think anyone has this figured out yet. I certainly haven't. Which is why I believe we need more places where we can learn from each other: what's working, what needs to change, and what we're still trying to understand. So I'm really happy to share that, together with @nchaganlal , @LiliSousa and José António Silva, we're bringing LeadDev Meetups to Porto. Join here: meetup.com/leaddev-meetup-po… And if you have a story to share on stage, send me a message. We're finalising the line-up and still have some room.
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Every founder eventually asks himself: "Should I fundraise?” Almost nobody asks the question that should come first: “Should you?” To answer this, we're hosting our 1st Focused Session, named “The Fundraising Dilemma”. October 1st. Online. Join us: luma.com/upside-focused-sess…
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Spoiler alert: Design isn't over. Thank you @lisbonai_, we had a blast!
Design is caring Design is noticing Design is *not* dead Amazing talk by @lmsmonteiro (@pixelmatters_)
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