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Welcome everyone to another episode of the Inevitable Podcast.

Welcome everyone to another episode of the Inevitable Podcast.  

In this episode, I had the pleasure to host Lucas Abreu.  

For those who don't know, Lucas is a venture investor at Astella Invest an early-stage venture capital firm focused on funding and supporting entrepreneurs in Brazil.   

Lucas is also a Venture Capital Fellow at Blitzscaling Ventures, a firm that supports growth-stage companies attacking winner-take-most markets.  

Here are some of the questions that I asked Lucas:  

- How was your childhood?   

- When did you realize you wanted to work with VC? How was it? 

- How did you get your first job at a VC firm?  

- How did you get started at Astella as a first employee? 

- What do you think is necessary to be a successful investor? 

- What is your advice to people that want to join VC?



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Welcome everyone to another episode of the Inevitable Podcast.  

In this episode, I had the pleasure to host Iona Szkurnik.   

For those who don't know, Iona is the founder & CEO of Education Journey, an education platform that offers education solutions to companies and their employees, helping them to become lifelong learners.   

Iona is also the co-founder and Board Member of Brazil at Silicon Valley, a movement spearheaded by students from Stanford and Berkeley that aims at improving Brazil’s competitiveness through innovation and technology. Brazil at Silicon Valley also holds an annual conference where it brings together the most influential Brazilian executives, entrepreneurs, experts, and policy-makers to discuss topics that are relevant to the country's development.  

Here are some of the questions that I asked Iona:  

- What made you decide to leave the public sector and take a Master's of Education Technology at Stanford? 

- When did you realize that you wanted to work with education? How was the feeling of finding your purpose in life? 

- Were there any moments when you felt uncertain about leaving your job in Brazil to take a Master’s in the US? 

- How did all the different experiences that you had help you better understand what you wanted to build? 

-Can you tell us how Brazil at Silicon Valley was founded? 

-In 2020 you founded Education Journey in order to offer education as a corporate benefit. Can you tell us a little more about the company and its purpose? 

-What has been your biggest source of inspiration throughout your career? 

-Eventually, when Education Journey becomes a major success and you feel like you accomplished what you were looking for at the beginning of your journey, what would you be doing?



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Welcome everyone to the Inevitable Podcast.

In this episode, I had the pleasure to chat with Paulo Martins.

For those who don't know, Paulo is the founder and CEO of Arena, a data platform for consumer enterprises to increase engagement, conversion and revenue. Arena has over 25,000 customers in 50 countries and just announced its Series A round led by CRV.

Before that, Paulo was part of the Ad Products team at Hulu, scaling the company from its early stage to $1.1B annual revenue and growing its user base from 100K+ to 7M paying subscribers in 2 years.

Paulo started his career as a software engineer at NASA Houston and has a master's degree in Data Mining and Machine Learning.

He had amazing personal and professional experiences as an entrepreneur and business leader and is here today to share some of these learnings with us.

Here are some of the questions that I asked Paulo:


What is your formula to continuously push yourself to the limit throughout your life?
What did you have to do to move to the US early in your career?
You almost took a very different career path. How was your experience in the fighting and entertainment industry?
When did you realize that you wanted to become an entrepreneur?
What problems does Arena solve for its clients in order to serve them in so many different geographies?
How was your experience raising the series A round for Arena?
What were the levers that Arena had for investors in order to have such a successful round?

In this episode I had the pleasure to host Donato Helbling.

For those who don't know, Donato is the founder of Miami Ice Club, a community dedicated to cultivating regular breath work and cold exposure practice, helping members to activate their ability to regulate their autonomic nervous system.

He is the only Certified Wim Hof Instructor in South Florida, and has trained directly under Wim Hof himself.

If you follow me on social media (@pedrosorren) on all accounts, you’ll see that I have been jumping on ice tanks for the last five months.

Regular breathing and ice baths have completely rewired my mind, body, and spirit—eradicating anxiety and depression.

If you want a protocol to be an Inevitable founder/investor, you’ll find that on the ice club. I have taken several friends, LPs and CEOs to this experience.

Donato is also a Budokon black belt and has over 15 years of experience in Miami and traveling worldwide, with Budokon University teaching Yoga, Martial Arts, Mobility, Meditation and Life Coaching. Additionally, he is the Director of Human Development Labs, a consulting firm that works with leaders in different industries.

He had amazing personal and professional experiences, and shared some of these learnings with us.

Here are some of the questions that I asked Donato:


Can you tell us about your childhood?
In your opinion, what is the difference between Budokon and other martial arts that you have practiced?
Where do you get your desire to not give up and run so many different initiatives in your life?
How did you find out about ice baths and the Wim Hof Method?
How was training and taking the ice baths with Wim Hof himself?
What were the challenges that you faced when you decided to create the ice bath community in Miami? How did you overcome them?
How did you start the Miami Ice Club?

You can listen to this and other Inevitable Podcast episodes on Youtube, Spotify and all other audio platforms.

In this episode, I spoke with the brilliant Adam Burrows.

For those who don't know, Adam is a venture investor, a former C-level leader, and the co-founder and Managing Partner of Range Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm focused on funding and supporting entrepreneurs in the Colorado area.

Before that, as a senior vice president and general manager at HomeAdvisor, Adam was part of the executive team that built the company from $100M to over $1B in revenue, taking the company public in 2017 – it was Colorado’s largest tech IPO. Later, Adam was the first C-level executive at Guild Education, helping the company to raise its Series C and sign their largest clients towards $1B valuation. Guild is backed by investors such as Bessemer, ICONIQ, and General Catalyst, having raised $378.5M in total funding.

He had amazing personal and professional experiences as an entrepreneur and business leader and is here today to share some of these learnings with us.

Here are some of the questions that I asked Adam:


Before joining the tech ecosystem, you graduated at Harvard Law School and went to a consulting firm right after. Why did you decide to not pursue a career as a lawyer?
You then joined HomeAdvisor. How did you feel jumping from traditional consulting to a startup?
Why HomeAdvsior was so successful despite all the challenges seen by other incumbents in the services marketplace space?
Do you think that being a Colorado-based company impacted the overall culture at HomeAdvsior?
As we see the world going remote, how do you see the impact of your strategy, since it has a geographical component attached to its ethos?
Shortly after HomeAdvisor IPO, you joined Guild Education as the first C-level executive at the firm. How was the feeling of getting back to an early stage company?
After helping Guild Education become a USD 1B company you decided to dedicate your life to helping entrepreneurs and co-founded Range Ventures. Why did you decide to focus mainly on Colorado based startups?
What has changed in your life as a VC compared to everything you did before?
What do you think will be the impact in venture from a macro perspective?
Have you had any realization as an emerging manager that you were not expecting?

This was a great chat, and I'm sure you will find it extremely insightful.

Welcome everyone to the Inevitable Podcast. In this episode I'm going to talk with Alessio Alionço.

Alessio was the first CEO I ever partnered with, back when I was an associate at FCVC when we invested in their seed round. At that time, Pipefy had $2,000 in MRR.

Furthermore, he is the only founder I have invested in every single Venture Capital chapter I had. I.E., aside from leading our investment in Pipefy when I was running ONEVC, Atman investors are also privileged to be a part of Pipefy's story.

Alessio is the founder and CEO of Pipefy, a no-code business process management platform that helps companies optimize sophisticated workflows for those who don't know. Today, Pipefy is present in over 150 countries and has raised over 200MM.

They started in Curitiba and expanded worldwide, mostly because of Alessio's relentlessness as CEO.

Over the past seven years, we had several opportunities to learn and grow as individuals, as he matured as a founder and I matured as an investor.

Before launching Pipefy, Alessio also founded Acessozero, an online social city guide where users could find deals in local businesses, which he sold in 2013. After the sale, he searched for his next business idea, traveling and meeting entrepreneurs in Israel.

He had amazing personal and professional experiences as an entrepreneur and business leader and is here today to share some of these learnings with us.

Unfortunately, I had a hard stop, and we had to cut the episode short. That being said, we'll certainly schedule other conversations.

Here are some of the questions that I asked Alessio:


When did you realize you wanted to be an entrepreneur?
Can you tell us more about your trip to Israel and how it shaped your decision to make sure Pipefy was going to be global from Day 1?
How did you make Pipefy into a sexy enterprise product?
How do you deal with the challenges of running a growing business and becoming a professional leader?
What was your feeling after raising the series C for Pipefy?