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Founder archive by chapter
A story-first archive of João's global chapters, founder environments, and technical contexts, presented in one editorial sequence.
All chapters, ordered editorially across Stanford, YC, Paris, and applied AI contexts.
Summer 2024
Stanford Visiting Student — Summer 2024
The summer where João's horizon stopped feeling local.
A summer that expanded João's technical range, global exposure, and founder conviction inside Stanford's ecosystem — the chapter where systems thinking, HPC, and Bay Area builder culture started showing up in how he later approached AI systems and Speco.
2023–2024 (research) · 2025–2026 (applied)
Research & Legal AI
Research foundation → applied legal intelligence.
A two-phase arc — legal-document research at Unifor / NCDIA, then applied retrieval, precedent, and prediction systems at FI Group. The chapter that taught João how to work in structured, high-context, high-precision domains.
2024
YC Startup School — San Francisco 2024
Early pattern-recognition inside the YC ecosystem.
A compact archive of João's 2024 YC Startup School exposure while already leaning into AI product execution.
2024–2025
Global Founder Trajectory
Founder rooms across San Francisco, Stanford, Paris, and EuroTech.
Founder rooms across San Francisco, Stanford, Paris, and EuroTech — the chapter where João's builder network stopped feeling adjacent and started compounding.
2025
Paris — RAISE Summit 2025
European AI ecosystem immersion.
A focused collection from RAISE Summit 2025 documenting João's exposure to applied AI networks, technical conversations, and founder-level ecosystem density.
2025
Paris — Manus AI Hackathon 2025
Builder-speed in a concentrated AI event environment.
A compact collection around João's Paris Manus hackathon context, tied to rapid iteration and founder-style technical execution.
2024
Bay Area Datacenter Visit
Infrastructure-level context behind AI product ambition.
A focused collection capturing direct exposure to datacenter-scale systems in the Bay Area.