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![]() | 1992-Communion-1 My first communion. This is the typical card you gave people in a 1st communion. |
![]() | 1996-Porto-Piscinas-1 To swim in the public pools, I got a membership card. |
![]() | 1996-Porto-Piscinas-2 Years later that system gets upgraded to the Porto-wide city wide leisure thingy. New card, same number! |
![]() | 1999-Porto-SNS-2 As the son of a doctor working for the public administration, I get another card. This one is paper. |
![]() | 1999-Portugal-SNS-1 Back in the day, when diagonal words were all the rage. My access card to the PT national health service. |
![]() | 2000-DotCom-1 The dot com bubble got all the nerds spinning. as a 16 year old, i was surfing the wave as most. I had business cards and all. |
![]() | 2001-Optimus-1 After Vodafone, I moved to Optimus.. I lost many SIM cards, this one was during their magma phase. |
![]() | 2001-Optimus-2 Another Optimus SIM. |
![]() | 2002-MEDIS-1 Around the time I got to the university my father got us all a private health insurance, from MEDIS. |
![]() | 2002-MEDIS-2 Periodically i get a new card. |
![]() | 2002-MEDIS-3 They all look the same. Boring. |
![]() | 2002-Passport-1 The first passport i remember was the one I took to Argentina in 2002. |
![]() | 2002-Passport-2 This is a 2009 passport, that I needed to go to the MBA in the US. |
![]() | 2002-Porto-FEUP-1 I started studying in the Public university of engineering FEUP in porto. This meant I got my own uni card too. |
![]() | 2002-Porto-FEUP-2 I got into FEUP partly because of my mothers uncle, Tio Manel. When he passed I got one of his cards. |
![]() | 2002-Porto-FEUP-CGD-1 As part of registering for the university, you got a university branded debit card. |
![]() | 2002-Porto-FEUP-CGD-10 And that card, too, got upgraded to an exact replica a year later. |
![]() | 2002-Porto-FEUP-CGD-2 We got one card per year. |
![]() | 2002-Porto-FEUP-CGD-3 they evolved the design.. a bit. |
![]() | 2002-Porto-FEUP-CGD-4 Banks started issuing code matrices for security. I never understood why, really. |
![]() | 2002-Porto-FEUP-CGD-5 later on, as I got a job in consulting, the bank gave me a credit card! what an upgrade. Not. |
![]() | 2002-Porto-FEUP-CGD-6 The new debt card issued by CGD.. MTV was all the range in 2009. |
![]() | 2002-Porto-FEUP-CGD-7 many years later, and MTV is still all the rage for this state bank. |
![]() | 2002-PortoFEUP-CGD-9 At some point I stopped being a university student, and got upgraded to a generic international student status. |
![]() | 2002-TAX-1- In 2022 I got a personal fiscal identification number to start working during my university years. this card was issued in 2004. |
![]() | 2004-ID-1 this is what the national identity cards looked like. Geez. |
![]() | 2004-ID-2-and now on the back. |
![]() | 2004-ID-3 this is what the 2016 national identity cards looked like. Geez. |
![]() | 2006-Caltech-1 I got to california for a summer undergraduate research fellowship (SURF). 10 weeks! |
![]() | 2006-Caltech-2 When I return for 5 month in 2007, I get a new card. Same ID. |
![]() | 2006-Caltech-3 The summer is over, so I have to get an upgraded card to stay there. |
![]() | 2006-Caltech-4 When it's time for the driverless car race, I get yet another cool card. |
![]() | 2006-Caltech-5 I wouldn't have made it to Caltech without the help of a uni professor, João Tasso, who leads the LSTS lab in FEUP. |
![]() | 2006-CaltechBank-1 Because i'm at Caltech, they give me a debit card. Credit Unions are popular, and every big university has one (I guess). |
![]() | 2006-CaltechBank-2 when i return to caltech, they give me a cooler card, with a galaxy in the middle. |
![]() | 2006-CaltechBank-3 I get issued more cards.. almost yearly. |
![]() | 2006-CaltechBank-4 yet another renovation.. |
![]() | 2006-CaltechBank-5 more cards. |
![]() | 2008-CAR-1. My first car, a 2nd-hand, silver, gasoline powered VW Polo XL from 2003, that I bought from an ex-potential-mother-in-law |
![]() | 2008-CAR-2. With a car, i got an insurance! |
![]() | 2008-McKinsey-1 My first real job out of university was as a strategy consultant at McKinsey & Company. (It's Ayres Pereira, not Pereira). |
![]() | 2008-McKinsey-2 McKinsey got you a special healthcare plan (which i never used). |
![]() | 2008-McKinsey-3 And being in Lisbon, it meant that I could become part of a health club: gym. There were nice yoga classes. |
![]() | 2008-McKinsey-4-BES-1 And I converted to a better bank account, at least one that looked more premium (dumb). |
![]() | 2008-McKinsey-4-BES-2 And that gave me several cards, fancy as the bank account was (360). |
![]() | 2008-McKinsey-4-BES-3 Gold card lol. |
![]() | 2008-McKinsey-4-BES-4 Another gold card. |
![]() | 2008-McKinsey-4-BES-5 Yet another bank card. |
![]() | 2008-McKinsey-4-BES-6 And another. |
![]() | 2008-McKinsey-5-travel-1 At McKinsey I started flying more regularly, and there was even a corporate travel card. |
![]() | 2008-McKinsey-5-travel-2 Soon I realized that I needed a proper airmiles program. |
![]() | 2008-McKinsey-5-travel-3 I tried many travel programs. |
![]() | 2008-McKinsey-5-travel-4 I tried many travel programs. |
![]() | 2008-McKinsey-5-travel-5 I tried many travel programs. |
![]() | 2008-McKinsey-5-travel-6 I tried many travel programs. |
![]() | 2008-McKinsey-6-MBCP-1 And when I got down on that flight path, I got inside another bank, BCP. |
![]() | 2008-McKinsey-6-MBCP-2 They had a credit card everyone at mckinsey was using, that doubled miles or something. |
![]() | 2008-McKinsey-6-MBCP-3 I got the full pack, including my first Amex. I never really got to understand how that worked. |
![]() | 2008-McKinsey-6-MBCP-4 Yet another card. |
![]() | 2008-McKinsey-6-Work-1 My first project at McKinsey was to help with the tech career at CGD bank. IT sallaries were low back then. |
![]() | 2008-McKinsey-6-Work-10 More debit cards. |
![]() | 2008-McKinsey-6-Work-11 Another assignment was at O2, when it got acquired by Telefonica. |
![]() | 2008-McKinsey-6-Work-12 O2 existed in UK, Germany, Ireland and Checz Rep., so I had to travel. |
![]() | 2008-McKinsey-6-Work-2 Another job was at Mbcp bank. |
![]() | 2008-McKinsey-6-Work-3 The Mbcp project was to help them launch ActivoBank, which made me a customer! |
![]() | 2008-McKinsey-6-Work-4 ActivoBank start kit. |
![]() | 2008-McKinsey-6-Work-5 More debit cards. |
![]() | 2008-McKinsey-6-Work-6 More debit cards. |
![]() | 2008-McKinsey-6-Work-7 More debit cards. |
![]() | 2008-McKinsey-6-Work-8 More debit cards. |
![]() | 2008-McKinsey-6-Work-9 And a credit card (note the white C). |
![]() | 2008-McKinsey-7-Health At some point I started having headaches, which got fixed by prescription glasses. |
![]() | 2009-1-McKinsey-1-Work-1 Another assignment was at PT, supporting the rollout of the first 100k fiber installations. |
![]() | 2009-1-McKinsey-1-Work-10 Eventually I had to book other hotels.. and that meant more programs. |
![]() | 2009-1-McKinsey-1-Work-2 And at EDP, updating a Disaster Recovery plan. |
![]() | 2009-1-McKinsey-1-Work-3 At BBVA bank, we helped with digital services upgrade, like moving email to Gmail (a big deal then). |
![]() | 2009-1-McKinsey-1-Work-4 Probably from that Spain project to visit some location. |
![]() | 2009-1-McKinsey-1-Work-5 I stayed in Madrid quite a bit, eventually one of these cards got lost and ended up in this collection. |
![]() | 2009-1-McKinsey-1-Work-6 I travelled quite a bit with McKinsey so I got into the Hilton loyalty program. |
![]() | 2009-1-McKinsey-1-Work-7 Very quickly i climbed up to Diamond VIP status. |
![]() | 2009-1-McKinsey-1-Work-8 I also joined Starwood (Sheraton). |
![]() | 2009-1-McKinsey-1-Work-9 I used some of the perks to book a Conrad (hilton) in Istanbul. |
![]() | 2009-2-Harvard-1 After McKinsey I did an MBA at HBS, which means a new university ID card. |
![]() | 2009-2-Harvard-10 More bank cards. It looks like I misplace lots of cards. |
![]() | 2009-2-Harvard-11 There was a bookstore card too. |
![]() | 2009-2-Harvard-12 We travelled a bunch of times, here the Paris hotel in Vegas. |
![]() | 2009-2-Harvard-13 There was some public transportation thing in Boston, but we mostly walked. |
![]() | 2009-2-Harvard-2 A new University also meant a new health plan. |
![]() | 2009-2-Harvard-3 And a health insurance program |
![]() | 2009-2-Harvard-4 And business cards of my own. |
![]() | 2009-2-Harvard-5 I also needed a new bank account for my loan, so more debit cards. |
![]() | 2009-2-Harvard-6 More bank cards. |
![]() | 2009-2-Harvard-7 More bank cards. |
![]() | 2009-2-Harvard-8 More bank cards. |
![]() | 2009-2-Harvard-9 More bank cards. |
![]() | 2009-FNAC-1 cards were all the rage, and I got a FNAC card too. |
![]() | 2010-NY-MBA Internship-1 I got an Internship in NY working for Santander. |
![]() | 2010-NY-MBA Internship-2 I had to work in the 10 weeks of the summer, and I found a place to stay in NYC. |
![]() | 2010-NY-MBA Internship-3 There was a Gym with a pool too! |
![]() | 2010-NY-MBA Internship-4 I needed a bank to deposit a salary, and I wanted something with an App, so i got BoA. |
![]() | 2010-NY-MBA Internship-5 More bank cards. |
![]() | 2010-NY-MBA Internship-6 More bank cards. |
![]() | 2011-EDP-1 I came back from my MBA to work at EDP Distribuição, the distribution network of the local electric company. |
![]() | 2011-EDP-2 This means more cards. One of them was a gasoline card.. |
![]() | 2011-EDP-3 I also needed a special permit card to drive their fleet of cards. |
![]() | 2011-EDP-4 This job was in Lisbon, so I started using the local subway system, and that meant more cards. This was a rechargeable transport card |
![]() | 2011-EDP-5 Eventually I upgraded individual tickets to a monthly pass. |
![]() | 2011-EDP-6-Lisbon-1 Around the time of being in Lisbon, my landlord pushed me to attend a marketing (think ponzy) scheme called Lyoness. Geez. |
![]() | 2011-EDP-6-Lisbon-2 Also around this time, I started to get calls for headhunters. |
![]() | 2011-MBA-Recruiting-1 I would need a job post-MBA, so I applied to Apple. Only got a free song. |
![]() | 2011-MBA-Recruiting-2 I applied to Citi bank international operations in Miami for LatAm. |
![]() | 2011-MBA-Recruiting-3 Got a chance to visit Miami. In the end I wouldn't accept their amazing offer. |
![]() | 2012-Porto-1-Skin-1 I started Skin.pt in 2012. It's a beauty ecommerce business. The name was an idea of a colleague. We printed cards. |
![]() | 2012-Porto-1-Skin-2 That meant new bank cards (Farmactiva was the legal name!). |
![]() | 2012-Porto-1-Skin-3 And more bank cards. |
![]() | 2012-Porto-1-Skin-4 We even got a card to Makro, a cash & carry. It was a realy business! |
![]() | 2012-Porto-1-Skin-5 I made entrepreneur friends. |
![]() | 2012-Porto-1-Skin-6 And more startup friends. |
![]() | 2012-Porto-2 Because i was in porto, I got into swiming. Went some 5 times or less. |
![]() | 2012-Porto-3 I also did a trip to Santiago de Compostela by bike. Very nice. This was the room key (paper, with a code). |
![]() | 2012-Porto-4 I was really coming back to Porto, even got a loyalty card of a bookstore. |
![]() | 2012-PortoPrimaveraSounds-1 I started going back to local events, and this festival was the biggest local thing. |
![]() | 2012-PortoPrimaveraSounds-2 the promoter (Optimus) merged and rebranded, and next year the card was different. |
![]() | 2012-PortoPrimaveraSounds-3 Another! |
![]() | 2012-PortoPrimaveraSounds-4 And yet another card. |
![]() | 2012-PortoPrimaveraSounds-5 Another (probably my wife's). |
![]() | 2014-1-London-1-Eatfirst-1 After a disagreement with my investors at Skin.pt, I co-founded EatFirst.com with 2 others, in london. |
![]() | 2014-1-London-1-Eatfirst-2 Our first campaign card with a discount code. |
![]() | 2014-1-London-1-Eatfirst-3 Another card! |
![]() | 2014-1-London-1-Eatfirst-3 New business, new bank cards. |
![]() | 2014-1-London-2 I had to swim, so I found a nice place near the office. |
![]() | 2014-1-London-3 Moved offices, new pool! |
![]() | 2014-1-London-4 Suits were still used in startups sometimes, and so...! |
![]() | 2014-1-London-5 We travelled a lot between London, Porto and Berlin. I got easyJet plus, that offered front seats everytime. |
![]() | 2014-2-Berlin-1-EatFirst-1 Rocket was our investor, so we worked off their gigantic offices. |
![]() | 2014-2-Berlin-1-EatFirst-2 I moved to Berlin at end of 2014 to work on EatFirst there (we had 2 cities). I got a copy of my co-founders card. |
![]() | 2014-2-Berlin-1-EatFirst-3 Another access card. |
![]() | 2014-2-Berlin-2-N26-1 New city, new personal bank. Welcome N26. |
![]() | 2014-2-Berlin-2-N26-2 More cards. |
![]() | 2014-2-Berlin-2-N26-3 Yet more cards. |
![]() | 2014-2-Berlin-2-N26-4 And another bank card. |
![]() | 2014-2-Berlin-2-N26-5 And another. |
![]() | 2014-2-Berlin-3 I needed internet and a phone. 1&1! |
![]() | 2014-2-Berlin-4 I also got a car sharing card, to move around the Berlin area. |
![]() | 2016-1-Marriage-1 I got married on 2015-05-01, and we had a southeast asia Honeymoon (here, thailand). |
![]() | 2016-1-Marriage-2 Again in thailand. |
![]() | 2016-2-Rows.com-1-Bank-1 I co-founded Rows at the end of 2016, in Berlin. Then it was called EqualsMagic!. Another credit card. |
![]() | 2016-2-Rows.com-1-Bank-2 We also opened an operation in Portugal, so yet another bank. |
![]() | 2016-2-Rows.com-1-Bank-2 We also opened an operation in Portugal, so yet another bank..png2016-2-Rows.com-1-Bank-3 And the bank card. |
![]() | 2016-2-Rows.com-1-Bank-3 I started investing, and opened a legal entity for it. Another bank account. |
![]() | 2016-2-Rows.com-1-Bank-4 And then they gave me a personal bank account too. |
![]() | 2016-2-Rows.com-1-Bank-5 With another debit card. |
![]() | 2016-2-Rows.com-2-office-1 We needed a place to work, so we worked at Factory. |
![]() | 2016-2-Rows.com-2-office-2 And because we were in Porto, we needed a place to work from there too! |
![]() | 2016-3-travel-1 Since getting married we started travelling more. One of our first big trips was to India when Maria was pregnant with Penélope. |
![]() | 2016-3-travel-2 We travelled in Portugal a bunch too. This is in Comporta. |
![]() | 2016-3-travel-3 We travelled a few times to Comporta, until it became too expensive for us. |
![]() | 2016-3-travel-4 We also went to Estoril, where Maria's family lives.. there's an old hotel there, sometimes they have nice promos too. |
![]() | 2016-3-travel-5 We stayed there twice already! |
![]() | 2016-3-travel-6 Another hotel room key left behind.. this time from the Douro region. |
![]() | 2016-3-travel-7 No idea where this one is from, for sure some less-brandable hotel (I'm guessing 3*). |
![]() | 2017-1-travel-1 Even with a baby, we travelled. Our first trip with Penélope was to Brazil, here in Rio de Janeiro (hotel Marina Palace). |
![]() | 2017-1-travel-2 We travelled out of Germany a bunch, and in the region. Here we went to Szececin in Poland. The water in the northern sea was 2C. |
![]() | 2019-Rows-1 We went to an event by our investor Accel and Salesforce, in NY. |
![]() | 2020-1-rows-1 In 2020 I went to a biz retreat in Salt Lake City, organized by my investor Accel. Stunning mountains. |
![]() | 2020-1-rows-2 Because of international travel, I got a phone number that works anywhere in the world. |
![]() | 2020-2-porto-1 The Rows team in Porto grew, and our older daughter had alopecia and needed less travel. So we moved to Porto. New subway cards! |
![]() | 2023-1-Travel We visited an amazing hotel, Montebelo Mosteiro de Alcobaça. Food was ok, but the rennovation of the monestary is very good. |