$360 / month
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Unlimited Q&A via chat
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Most founders don't fail on bad ideas. They fail by focusing on the wrong thing at the wrong time - and right now, by guessing how to use AI.
I've been on both sides. After 20 years building and scaling startups, I learned to read the stage before choosing the move. And over the last few years I went deep on AI as a builder, not just a user, rewiring how I operate, mentor, and run companies.
That's what I bring to mentorship: cutting through the noise so you focus on what moves the needle now, and turning AI into real leverage in your work.
Who I work with:
- 🌱 Early-stage founders on the 0→1 journey - validation to first traction
- 🚀 Growth-stage founders scaling 1→10 - fundraising, team, product, business model
- 🧭 PMs, engineers, and professionals who want to use AI to level up faster and lead
Where I help with AI (specifically):
- 🤖 Building with Claude & Claude Code - designing, prototyping, and shipping real products and internal tools, even lean
- 🧩 AI agents & automation - autonomous agents and workflows with MCP and the Agent SDK that do real work in production
- 📈 AI in the business - where it creates leverage across product, growth, and ops, and how to drive real adoption in a team
- 🧠 An AI-powered operating system that makes you and your team faster
What else we can work on:
- 🏗️ Entrepreneurship - zero to scale, turnarounds, reinventing mature businesses
- 💰 Fundraising - Angel and VC rounds: the pitch, the story, the terms
- 📦 Product - validation, MVP scoping, roadmap, launch
- 📱 Technology - architecture, AI/ML integration, building lean with modern stacks
- 🧗 Leadership - becoming a sharper decision-maker and building teams that execute
Some context:
- I founded Eskolare, an education fintech serving 1M+ families and 3,000+ schools in Brazil - bootstrapped, fundraised, and built the tech myself.
- I spent ~4 years at Gringo, Brazil's #1 driver platform (20M+ users), as investor and executive, leading Product, M&A, and two Business Units as GM. In 2025, Gringo was acquired by Corpay (US) for US$180M.
- I'm a Board Member at 6 companies across travel, data, legal, event, fin, and auto tech.
- I run much of my own work - mentorship, advisory, marketing - on AI agents I build and operate myself. What I teach is what I use.
- EO member for 9+ years, including helping grow the São Paulo chapter and supporting expansion across Latin America.
How I work: no generic advice. I shorten your learning curve with what I've actually lived - the decisions, the mistakes, the frameworks that worked at each stage.
If you're building something real, or trying to make AI your edge, let's talk.
👉 Book a session and let's get to work.
5 out of 5 stars
As a first time founder, I benefited a lot from Victor's experience and calmness in dealing with the highs and lows of entrepreneurship. He consistently brings stream of ideas and proposal, yet coupled with practical recommendation on what he has tried and tested before. Our conversation and mentorship wasn't limited to just the work content, but it covers all spectrum of life entrepreneur, for example, how to manage cofounder relationship. I would recommend Victor to any founder who need a second opinion or someone who understand the journey of entrepreneurship well.
Standard Plan • 5 months
5 out of 5 stars
Victor has been an important foundation to the success and evolution I've had as a first-time founder and CTO, a dynamic I was unfamiliar with back then. Our experiences relate a lot, as Victor also started in leadership/responsibility positions since a very young age. It's almost like seeing an "older me" in front of my screen. Since the two years we've been working together, we touched on a variety of different subjects, from leadership to technical, from networking to personal improvement. Victor's approach to mentorship is interesting, in the sense that he tries to relate everything to his personal experience (even the craziest things I come up with), which makes the entire experience easier to digest and actionable. Also, as my company evolves in terms of new hires, fundraises and logistical/technical challenges, Victor is always able to help. Overall, I'm very pleased with the experience and I can't recommend Victor enough. Doesn't matter where you are at in your journey, I'm 100% confident that Victor will be able to provide the insights that you need to avoid making costly mistakes and 100x your company's chances to succeed.
Lite Plan • 2 years
5 out of 5 stars
ENGLISH Now that my son is an adult and I have more time, I decided to embrace an old dream: opening my own business. After searching a lot for a mentor, I found Victor. The search was worth it: your support has been fundamental in understanding the customer better, creating the product and formatting the most appropriate offer for them. And, above all, he's a great guy, easy to deal with and talk to. PORTUGUÊS Agora que meu filho está adulto e eu com mais tempo, resolvi abraçar um antigo sonho: abrir meu próprio negócio. Depois de procurar bastante por um mentor, encontrei o Victor. A busca valeu a pena: seu apoio tem sido fundamental para entender melhor o cliente, criar o produto e formatar a oferta mais adequada para ele. E, além de tudo, é um cara ótimo, fácil de lidar e conversar.
Standard Plan • 3 months
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Mentees who work with a mentor for 3+ months reach their goals 2x faster than those going it alone. Long-term mentorship means fewer false starts, more focused sessions, and support that builds week after week.
97% satisfaction across all mentors
Personalized feedback and growth plans
Trusted by thousands of mentees
Victor Barros
Founder, Investor & AI-native Operator at Gringo (acq. Corpay), Eskolare
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