Juan Pablo
Gargiulo
"Writer from Argentina. Occasionally gets punched in the face."
— To My Best Friend with the Palindrome Name
Born in Argentina.
Shaped by everywhere
since.
I came to the U.S. at five — Plymouth, then Texas — studied politics at UT Austin and creative writing at the University of Chicago, taught English in Seville, sold enterprise software in Utah and Dublin, and eventually landed in San Francisco, where I've been since 2020.
That path left me fluent in two languages, comfortable in many rooms, and instinctively drawn to the space where different worlds meet. I've spent my career in tech — selling complex B2B solutions across North America, LATAM, and EMEA — with a writer's eye for what actually matters to people.
I build software on the side, train martial arts before work, and still believe a well-constructed sentence can do things a dashboard never will.
To My Best Friend with the Palindrome Name
You were fifteen minutes late to our first date. I remember standing near the German Christmas festival, book in hand, waiting for you.
Promising Boxing Career
I left the Navy recruiter's office and headed straight to Half Price Books for literature on Officer Candidate School.
The Night I Saw Leo Messi
I graduated with my Master's Degree the following day. That was cool too.
Moving Targets
An Iron Family, Blood, and On Boxing and Writing — the rest of the thesis. Four pieces. One gym in Austin.
Tadpole AI
Tadpole is building autonomous AI security agents that simulate nation-state attacks continuously. While we build, we're open-sourcing everything we're learning — scenario training, a cybersecurity glossary, and Ask Tadpole, an AI security educator anyone can use.
Gargiulo
Duolingo meets Carta. Follow Sterling through the Journey — from reading your first offer letter to thinking like a founder — across 175+ scenario-based questions, a 200-term glossary, 5 interactive financial tools, and an AI that answers anything about equity and finance. The startup finance education platform that actually sticks.
Basquelingo
An AI language tutor for Euskara — the last mystery of Europe. Iñaki teaches you to speak Basque one practical phrase at a time, with real native pronunciation audio. The best Basque learning app on the internet.
Chad's Book Club
Meet Cornelius Havelock Archibald Dunmore IV — Chad to his book club. Kenyon '04, Iowa MFA '07, three years in an Oaxacan writing residency. He believes "I don't really read fiction" is a character flaw. Tell him what's on your shelf and he'll tell you what to read next. Then generate a full discussion deck — talking points, context, and slides — ready before your next meeting. No airport thrillers. 94% approval rating among people willing to be challenged.
Ask Sarmiento
A RAG-powered literary tribute to Domingo Faustino Sarmiento — Argentina's founding father, educator, and writer. Ask him anything. He answers in his own words, drawn from Facundo, Estados Unidos, and Educación Común. Available in Spanish and English.
FundingLens
Know who's backing your prospects before you reach out. Search 10,000+ companies and surface their VC and PE backers in real time — built for sales and BD teams who need an edge.
PE Portco
Type any PE firm. Get their entire portfolio — logos, sectors, websites, LinkedIn — in under a minute. Built for sales teams who prospect PE-backed companies and don't have time for PitchBook.
Signal
The fastest way to understand the AI landscape. Quiz yourself, explore top AI companies, and stay current with the tools reshaping tech.
AI or Lie
200 companies. 10 rounds. Can you tell the difference between a real AI startup and a made-up one? Test your instincts — and your BS detector.
Football Quiz
Three difficulty tiers, AI-generated questions, pass-and-play multiplayer, and a full explorer for all 48 nations of the 2026 World Cup. Casual to Expert — from famous players to obscure scorelines.
Peninsula FC Hub
The official home of Peninsula FC — a semi-pro soccer club in the SF Bay Area — with live standings, match results, and team stats.
Slush
A matching platform for writers and literary agents — like a dating app for manuscripts. Build a profile, browse agents actively seeking your kind of work, and start the conversation when there's a match.
CHAD
A Cognitive Hyperscale Agentic Datapipeline — autonomous AI agents that ingest, validate, transform, and deliver data across your entire infrastructure at scale, with zero manual intervention.
Gabrielle Always Has An Idea
Pick a mood, age, energy level, location, and how much time you have — Gabrielle generates four activity ideas in seconds. Covers newborns to age 6, solo play or two kids at once. Built for the moment when you've run out of ideas and so has everyone else.
Your Saturday Morning BJ
A podcast and running conversation between two old friends — Bret & Juan. Life, travel, work, Batman, the quest for FatFire, and anything else that comes up. Never actually recorded on a Saturday morning.
AgriAlsace
A precision agriculture company rooted in Alsace-Lorraine for generations. Founded by Jacques Brenckle — farmer, licensed pilot, and GPS guidance specialist — we install and calibrate RTK centimeter-precision systems on tractors across three French departments, helping farming families optimize their yields and reduce costs season after season.
The body
as practice.
Competition taught me that showing up matters more than being ready. Soccer, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, boxing — each discipline in its own way demands presence, pattern recognition, and the willingness to be a beginner again.
I bring that same ethos to work: consistency over inspiration, process over outcome. Whether it's a long training block or a large codebase, I've learned to trust the incremental.
Let's make
something worth reading.
Open to interesting projects, collaborations, and the right full-time opportunities in tech.