Álvaro Pintado
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| Born | Álvaro María Pintado Santaularia 3 July 2004 Sant Cugat del Vallès, Catalonia, Spain |
| Education | Viaró Global School, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (dropped out) |
| Occupation | Businessman |
| Years active | 2020–present |
Álvaro Pintado Santaularia (born 3 July 2004) is a Spanish technology entrepreneur and businessman.[1] He is the founder and CEO of hello.app, a company which he founded at the age of 17.[2][3][4] He is the author of El Sistema Financiero Descentralizado, a book about DeFi and how the decentralized financial system could replace the traditional one.[5][6]
Education and career
[edit]Álvaro Pintado was born in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Spain to middle class Spanish parents.[7] He studied at Viaró Global School, a Catholic boys' institution in his hometown.[8] Afterwards, he went to UPC (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) to study Telecommunications Engineering, but dropped out after 3 months to focus on his entrepreneurship career.[9][10]
In 2022, he wrote the book El Sistema Financiero Descentralizado[11] and founded hello.app, a company that has since raised over $800,000[12] in funding from investors such as Esade, IESE Business School, and Bcombinator, among others. Its latest valuation was $16 million.[13][14]
hello.app is a decentralized storage network based on blockchain and distributed databases.[15][16] The concept is to use mobile devices to act as microservers, reducing reliance on large server farms owned by a few companies. Currently, hello.app has over 100,000 beta users across more than 200 countries.[17][18]
Pintado is also credited with one of the most expensive domain name purchases in Spain, having acquired www.hello.app for $115,000.[19][20][21]
Businesses
[edit]- The Watch Paradise [22]
- MineBit (import of Bitcoin mining machines)
- Whispr (whispr.chat) [23][24]
- hello.app [25]
References
[edit]- ^ "Álvaro Pintado, el emprendedor de 19 años que planta cara a Google y Amazon con hello.app". ELMUNDO (in Spanish). 23 November 2023. Retrieved 16 February 2024.
- ^ "La gesta Álvaro Pintado: de dejar la carrera a crear con 17 años una empresa valorada en 16 millones". El Español (in Spanish). 27 February 2024. Retrieved 10 June 2024.
- ^ "Álvaro Pintado: "No necesito desconectar"". Tech Barcelona (in Spanish). 30 May 2024. Retrieved 10 June 2024.
- ^ "Álvaro Pintado, el jove santcugatenc que vol revolucionar internet competint amb Google". Tot Sant Cugat (in Catalan). 21 February 2024. Retrieved 20 March 2024.
- ^ "Álvaro Pintado, el emprendedor de 19 años que planta cara a Google y Amazon con hello.app". ELMUNDO (in Spanish). 23 November 2023. Retrieved 16 February 2024.
- ^ "Altas capacidades, políticamente incorrecto y con un socio encontrado en Wallapop". La Razón (in Spanish). 9 May 2024. Retrieved 10 June 2024.
- ^ Álvaro Pintado https://www.linkedin.com/in/alvaropintado/?originalSubdomain=es
- ^ "Álvaro Pintado, el emprendedor de 19 años que planta cara a Google y Amazon con hello.app". ELMUNDO (in Spanish). 23 November 2023. Retrieved 16 February 2024.
- ^ "Álvaro Pintado, creador a los 19 años de hello.app: "Mi startup cambiará el mundo"". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). 14 May 2024. Retrieved 8 August 2024.
- ^ Álvaro Pintado (15 December 2023). Este es el Plan de un Genio de 19 años para Conseguir 1 Billón € Álvaro Pintado. Youtube: Podcast de Duo. Retrieved 8 August 2024.
- ^ "Álvaro Pintado, el emprendedor de 19 años que planta cara a Google y Amazon con hello.app". ELMUNDO (in Spanish). 23 November 2023. Retrieved 20 March 2024.
- ^ "Hello.app capta 500.000 euros y alcanza una valoración de 16 millones". www.eleconomista.es (in Spanish). 2 July 2024. Retrieved 25 July 2024.
- ^ Escribano, Mario (3 December 2023). "Tiene 19 años y dice que su idea valdrá 1.000 millones en 3 años: "La gente me envidia"". elconfidencial.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 20 March 2024.
- ^ "Álvaro Pintado, el joven de 19 años que dejó la universidad para crear una app valorada ahora en 16 millones". www.economiadigital.es (in Spanish). 27 May 2024. Retrieved 2 June 2024.
- ^ Escárzaga, Antonio L. (5 July 2023). "18-year-old CEO secures €170K aiming to revolutionise the field of decentralised data storage". EU-Startups. Retrieved 20 March 2024.
- ^ "hello.app, la primera aplicación del mundo creada por un joven de 19 años que paga a sus usuarios por ceder espacio de almacenamiento de datos". Vozpópuli (in Spanish). 2 June 2024. Retrieved 2 June 2024.
- ^ "Una empresa fundada por dos adolescentes logra 100.000 usuarios en 3 meses" (in Spanish). 16 January 2024. Retrieved 8 August 2024.
- ^ "hello.app se gasta 107.000€ en el dominio y abre una ronda de 2M€". Emprendedores.es (in Spanish). 29 January 2024. Retrieved 8 August 2024.
- ^ "Un santcugatenc de 19 anys compra el domini més car a la història d'Espanya: 107.000 € per hello.app". Tv Sant Cugat (in Catalan). 14 November 2023. Retrieved 8 August 2024.
- ^ "Teenage CEO Purchases 'hello.app' Web Domain for $115,000". The Defiant. 25 October 2023. Retrieved 8 August 2024.
- ^ "CEO de 19 años adquiere el dominio hello.app por 107.000 €". Que.es (in Spanish). 25 October 2023. Retrieved 8 August 2024.
- ^ Álvaro pintado https://www.linkedin.com/in/alvaropintado/?originalSubdomain=es
- ^ "Whispr - La aplicación de inteligencia artificial para resolver cualquier tipo de pregunta". Yeswelab.com (in Spanish). 31 July 2023. Retrieved 8 August 2024.
- ^ "AI Natural Language Processing Tool - Whispr.chat". Dang.ai. Retrieved 8 August 2024.
- ^ "Álvaro Pintado, creador a los 19 años de hello.app: "Mi startup cambiará el mundo"". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). 14 May 2024. Retrieved 8 August 2024.