I'm Gabo. I am building Seed Hypermedia. A tool for thought on the web. TEst
From finance to entrepreneurship
My journey started in finance—I studied it in college and landed a job at Morgan Stanley right after graduation. But wait! Before that, I worked for a small food company in Chicago, selling Jamón and Chorizo. That’s when I had my first real entrepreneurial spark—I knew I wanted to build something of my own.
Banking, Solar, and Carsharing.
After some time at Morgan Stanley and Oquendo, a small M&A boutique, I found my first venture: Nexer Renovables, a solar energy company. It was a success by Spanish standards, and I loved the industry. However, it was too dependent on subsidies then, so I pivoted to a different sector with a similar impact—sustainable mobility. That’s when I launched Bluemove, one of Spain’s first car-sharing companies. In 2016, Europcar acquired Bluemove, and I helped shape the company's new mobility and technology division.
Technology
Bluemove required a fair amount of software and hardware. I was coming from spreadsheets and having to face HTML in Mailchimp->then CSS->Javascript->Terminal->Git->PHP->MYSQL->Python->Pandas->Numpy->ML->Bitcoin
Thanks to my technical friends who taught me, websites like Codecademy, Teamtreehouse, universities like MIT or Stanford through Coursera, and edX.
Interactive Web
Now, I’m working on something more significant. I want to make a web where human consciousness exists, free from centralized servers. Everything started here: As We May Think
And this is the best implementation I have seen of those fundamental ideas:
Some crazy stuff from Ted
Computer Lib, Dream Machines
Computer Lib, Dream Machines
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Vannevar Bush, "As We May Think." Atlantic Monthly, July 1945, 101–108.
Theodor H. Nelson, "As We Will Think." Proc. Online 72 Conference, Brunel U. Uxbridge, England.
G. Salton, "Recent Studies in Automatic Text Analysis and Document Retrieval." JACM, Apr 73, 258–278.
Donald E. Walker (ed.), Interactive Bibliographic Search: The User/Computer Interface. AFIPS Press, $15.
Theodor H. Nelson, "Getting It Out of Our System." In Schechter (ed.), Critique of Information Retrieval (Thompson Books, 1967).
J.C.R. Licklider, Libraries of the Future, MIT Press, 1965.
Clear and readable summary of the rest of the field; then he goes on to advocate “procognitive systems,” systems that will digest what’s known in any field and talk back to you, using techniques of artificial intelligence.
Whatever its other merits, this book is great for shaking people up, especially librarians. It seems so official.
Richard M. Laska, "All the News That’s Fit to Retrieve." Computer Decisions, Aug 72, pp. 18–22.