João De Paula
Co-Founder & CEO at Pioneer Fund
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoão De Paula is a serial entrepreneur and technical founder with 11 years of experience building and scaling startups across fintech and e-commerce. He co-founded Glio—the first Latin American company in Y Combinator—and later helped build Origin, a holistic employer-focused financial wellbeing platform, collectively raising over $70M from top-tier investors. As a hands-on CTO he led product and engineering teams, automated growth and operations (including ad automation and self-service support), and drove data-driven experimentation that achieved industry-leading conversion metrics. Now based in San Francisco, João combines legal training and YC entrepreneurial pedigree with venture experience as a Pioneer Fund partner while launching his next venture, Mesmer. Notably, he taught himself to code and often dives into the codebase himself, bridging strategy and execution to take companies from zero to one.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies at Y CombinatorBachelor's degree Law, Bachelor's degree Law at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (10)
redux9
styled-components9
react8
typescript7
frontend6
javascript6
mod-manager5
designer5
prebuild4
inno-setup3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
OriginFinancial/frontend-take-home-assignment
Dec 2019 - Jan 2021
Frontend Take Home Assignment
Contributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 1 year 1 month
reacttake-hometake-home-assignmentstyled-componentsredux
joaodepaula/correios_sigep
Dec 2016 - Feb 2018
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
correios
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