I always felt the need of accomplish my goals with my own effort and work.
When I was 12 I decided that I should pay for my own stuff, that at the time was resumed to pc hardware that allowed me to do what I loved: Overclocking - the art of pushing hardware far beyond its limits and comparing it with other enthusiasts all over the world. With that first job I was able to make 1k€ and learned a lot while doing IT support and a lot of boring office tasks. The most important one was to learn the importance of how the tasks are given to you. I was the "little kid" and took a while to earn everyone respect. Now I'm the coolest boss in the world thankfully to that not so good "being bossed" experience.
With that money I was able to test a lot of cool stuff, develop a lot of useful skills, joined a top world overclocking team and meet amazing individuals that ended up being lifelong friendships, while keeping my eager for cutting edge knowledge and competition in check.
Moving forward to when I was 18, I got off the track to be the future super-engineer my family and all those who know me hope I would become. Entered IST for mechanical engineering but in a few weeks I was working managing workstations for the chemical department. Once again the inner voice of the techlover, and getting things to work spoke louder.

Also at the same time I started some online investment projects, some that where and still are very successful and others that made me lose a lot of the material things I've loved.
One year later with 19, I opened my first company (Forexleaders) where I've developed trading algorithms for financial markets, and got some pretty good partnerships with leading trading banks all over the world.

Then I co-founded a company called nozomi, were we did cool gadgets for the "Bond, James Bond", of the real world. We set out to shake the criminal investigation market and we did.

Also we've won the Global Startup Challenge, I've pitched at the Global Security Challenge London, at Venture out New York, Dublin Websummit, and was a speaker in Ignite events in Portugal. The company died 2 years ago after problems with the second round investors.

After that I was in front of Acredita Portugal the world's 2nd largest startup competition, and in 2017 I've joined Dreamshaper as a partner.

We have impacted more than 100k people until now both in and out of schools and this year (2018) we're scaling up for 250k public school students in Brazil.

Keep Pushing it!