🇪🇸 Spaniard. Entrepreneur. Dad. 🔥 Miami Heat fan @handcashapp (exit 2024)
Andorra → Dubai
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Two years ago I sold my company.
I thought the next chapter would be simple. It wasn’t.
I’ve been in Andorra since 2021. It’s beautiful, my daughter was born here, and it will always be special.
But with ~80k people (mostly freelancers and retirees), no real network, and the nearest airport 3 hours away, it’s not the place for someone in their 30s who still wants to build.
I aimed for the US but couldn’t get the visa (long story involving a law firm in Florida).
So, after much consideration, I'm moving to Dubai.
I’ve been an entrepreneur most of my life.
Right now I want to join something that’s already big, in motion, and fun. I don’t want another remote-only chapter.
I want an office, a team I see daily, big challenges, and high standards.
It took me a while to admit that staying here meant I couldn’t become who I want to be.
I can’t stand that any longer.
At HandCash (CEO & co-founder) I ran product, design, and marketing. I raised money, hired, and led teams.
We tackled some of the biggest challenges in crypto/fintech and I’m proud of what we shipped.
The team came up with some of the most relevant innovations in our sector.
I’ve been deep in AI since before it was cool. In 2016 I led Accenture’s first AI division in Madrid for a year (until we raised €1M for HandCash!)
People who’ve worked with me usually say I’m honest, and my former employees always said I was a great leader. (Don't take my word, ask them!)
If you know a founder or executive in Dubai building something cool in AI, robotics, or fintech, please share this with them.
I’d love to have a coffee in the coming weeks. I land in Dubai on Nov 10th.
DMs are open or email me at apagut@icloud.com
If you’re reading this, help me by sharing it.
Thanks.
PS: This is a photo of me and Rafa, my co-founder in multiple startups! 2018... this is the biggest office we had lmao! I think you get it now.
I've always rejected the idea that Einstein was smarter because he had a bigger brain.
Small models that are capable of reasoning and figuring out how to use tools and query knowledge bases are the future.
It's the only approach that makes sense.
I love these sort of new high-tech industrial companies popping out everywhere! This is the way!
At twentyfour26, we are building fully autonomous factories in America, starting with on-demand CNC machining, manufacturing components for hardware companies in and around the Bay Area, with turnaround times as fast as ~48 hours.
Automation and robotics have made manufacturing more efficient, but much of that progress has come from optimizing processes designed decades ago.
We believe the next leap in manufacturing won’t come from simply automating existing processes. It requires rethinking how factories operate from the ground up, with AI at the core of the entire production process.
We need to reinvent manufacturing.
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Get out of the European Union as fast as you can.
JUST IN - EU President Ursula von der Leyen says that people's savings accounts are a problem
and that she must put this money "to the service of European companies"
says her plan to "securitize them" and "supervise them"
They're coming for your savings, Europe.
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x402 is one of the best things right now and nobody uses it. Probably nobody really gets it.
In short, you make an API request with the payment embedded on it. That way you can use paid APIs without having to sign up for every new service.
This is the true on-demand economy.
@bot was great... but something happened about 10 days ago?
Now, it’s unusable for me. It’s not just the usage limits; I’m fine with paying more. It used to be productive.
Now, it feels dumb:
> My bots lost all context of their tasks.
> They don’t check SOPs or documentation anymore.
> Their English is a mess; it looks like English but isn’t.
And my monthly "unified" X-Cursor-Bot plan just renewed.
I’m confused about what happened.
Could they be using cheaper models from other providers?
I’m not sure what I’m paying for now.
Also, can we keep Grok Bots only in their app? I don’t need them everywhere.
Speaking of @grok, I used to have great chats with it during long Tesla drives. Now, it can’t hold a normal conversation.
I’ve always supported Team-Elon, but this isn’t the experience I expected from SpaceXSAI or whatever it’s called now.
Huge disappointment, honestly.
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The ONLY way the European Union keeps "some" revenue in the future is by taxing every single bit of data that goes into your computer.
Obviously they won't pay you for the bits you send away, though.
Yesterday France announced tax of €0.055 per GB on internet traffic
Today Germany is considering taxing all AI-generated revenue
You will see European countries keep clawing more and more money from foreign companies as they are slowly running out of money themselves to pay for their pensions and welfare state
Add to this the planned wealth taxes and exit taxes on any European who will try to leave (already active in many EU countries)
Europe is running out of money
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The post inaccurately claims France "announced" a data tax; it was a narrow 11-10 vote on a budget amendment in a near-empty chamber, opposed by the government and far from law. German AI tax ideas remain unadopted ministerial discussions without formal proposals.
stephanelarue.com/taxe-au-gigaoc…
tagesschau.de/inland/ministe…
davemanuel.com/2026/10/30/wha…
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Spain: 3 train incidents (one deadly) in 24 hours.
#AtlasShrugged
ÚLTIMA HORA | Un enganchón de catenaria en un Ouigo corta la alta velocidad Madrid-Levante y colapsa el túnel de Aranjuez
elconfidencial.com/espana/20…
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I realized I can stop my daughter’s tantrums immediately with hypnosis.
Dads: pattern interrupt is your friend.
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It's almost a weekly thing now...
#AtlasShrugged
JUST IN - At least 39 dead after two trains collide in Spain on the Madrid-Andalusia line, with 2 carriages reportedly falling down an embankment — Sky
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DIRECTO | Los primeros indicios apuntan a que el AVE de Renfe ha alcanzado al tren Iryo por detrás, lo que ha provocado el descarrilamiento de los vagones. Sigue la última hora en directo social.elpais.com/hwnlz
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