Hi, Salvador here! 👋

Who am I?

• 31 years-old, I love sports like football, surfing and fitness boxing.

• Work and resilience are the keys to open doors that give luck.

• I am a builder. Fast -pacing a future vision to the present is the single-most motivating thing for me.

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My name is Salvador Burnay Barros.

I’m an impact-seeker. Enabling amazing products growth is what drives me.

2 on-going missions

🥊BHOUT

• Problem: Gym facilities are terrible at retaining people. 40-65% of people abandon that initiated activity within 3-6 months. More than 1bn people in the world are obese - and highly exposed to chronic diseases such as diabetes. We need to find an alternative.

• Solution: inspired by video games and entertainment industries acknowledged for their ability to engage people. No says that “you are fat, you need to play a video game or watch a netflix series”. People do that because they feel like, and get excited about and get hit by dopamine to repeat such activity. We at bhout we use nudging psychology, gaming elements and and use fitboxing as a interface.
• We started with the BHOUT Club. Not only we changed the business model to make it much more scalable and self-service to people, but most importantly, the customer life-time is already 4x higher than the industry average.
• The soul of the project is our BHOUT Bag, that is inside our clubs and people will be able to find them at their friends houses, office gyms, on hotels when travelling and wherever else they’d be on their personal life journeys.

• The vision: Soon your next punch at a BHOUT Bag will hit a real-looking zombie, and you’ll be saving the world from them.

• Some traction:
• Raised 11 million Euros between Jan 2022 and the present
• Won best fittech startup in Europe 2022
• Won the second most innovative fitness facility in the world of 2022 (with only one club)

🥕o amador financeiro

• Problem: Portugal is a country with the lowest financial literacy in the Eurozone (2022). There’s tons of content on financial education, but the bridge towards practice is only done via workshops, and courses that can become expensive for Portuguese young pockets, whom can hardly save.

• Solution: The first newsletter written by common people that brings great quality content adapted to anyone’s language, independently of their background and schooling. Every article always includes a framework or a working templates (with the technology normal people use) that eliminate barriers and facilitate transitions towards action that perfectly facilitate our homework suggestions. Everything is reviewed by experts to assure credibility and legitimacy of the content for education purposes.

• Vision: People need to learn this on every generation, and we’re trying to build the first and only reference that Portuguese will need to learn personal finance. The content will always be on the safe side and organized for several journeys, from fundamentals until supporting entrepreneurship development, learning to invest, etc. It will also be the community where there will always exist peers to support.

• Some traction:
• Successfully built an exciting team by Feb 2023
• We launched the first post in April 2023 - have achieved 2000 subscribers - we reached 300k people on LinkedIn.
• Achieved organically 3k subscribers within the first 6 months of the project without any financial investment.
• We have 60% of open rate on average - 50% above the industry benchmark.
• We look to accelerate the growth rate and the distribution of the project.

Projects that marked my life

• I joined the association as a Católica Club, and left it as a multi-faculty Association with the largest annual youth entrepreneurship challenge - BET24.

• More than 1200 participants got involved during almost 4 years on our events, more then 50k Euros were given in prizes, a few million Euros were invested directly on start-ups that were helped by our programs or through our mentoring and networks support.

2. tapmyback.com | Employee Engagement Software

• Build a holistic growth Strategy through the entire Marketing, to Sales, to Customer Success Funnel;

• Product Management;

• Fundraising and Exit Strategies to onboard investors

• Data-driven decision-making became a part of me, both for product and sales.

• Have been a founder for about 2 years

• Have tasted what is not being able to achieve product-market-fit in terms of business (and sales) metrics with the current means, and it can feel impossible to build an interesting business

• Tried investing in growth backfired at us, and eventually diminished our strategic flexibilty as we would develop more the software.

3. Nova SBE Co.Innovation Lab

• Multiple Projects Execution

• Multiple Stakeholders Management

• Developed session’s hosting and facilitation skills

• I met an amazing team with whom I've implemented some of the most exciting and ambitious innovation programs and projects being done in Portugal

• Become an experienced Project Manager

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