
From housing in Brasília to lunar data storage, the founder of 2Future has assembled a portfolio with several different clocks. His partnerships in Lisbon and Burgundy reveal how much of that journey begins with people.

Omie grew when Marcelo Lombardo followed the people already recommending his software. Now the founder is changing the machinery again, with WhatsApp, AI and a costly farewell to franchises.

The former ballerina and MIT mathematician spent years asking permission to build a new kind of exchange. Then came the moment when permission was no longer the point.

Before building Flieber, Fabricio Miranda ran water-treatment operations, a hedge fund and an Amazon business. Each turn taught him the same lesson: growth looks glamorous from the front and behaves like an operations problem backstage.