About me
Patrick de Carvalho
Franco-Portuguese, nearly 30 years in the craft of building companies. A tech pioneer, from home automation to mobile to AI. I've been through two major crashes and turned them into raw material. Pluri-entrepreneur, author, speaker. And still in the field.
I trained as a technician with a two-year degree in home automation, then in marketing and communication (a four-year degree). At 16 I was already working; at 18, to the day, I bought my first motorcycle. I haven't stopped since.
In 1995 I bet on home automation. In 1998 I launched one of the first press e-commerce platforms, a no-stock sales model ahead of its time. At 26, the dot-com crash took that first company down: a bailiff seizure, everything to rebuild. That's when I forged the line that never left me.
In brief
Franco-Portuguese, nearly 30 years of entrepreneurship in tech. A pioneer (home automation 1995, e-commerce 1998, mobile marketing 2006, AI studio 2023), Patrick de Carvalho turned two major crashes into raw material. A pluri-entrepreneur, he runs Apps Velocity with Pascal Roche, hosts the #JNPJ podcast and publishes in the Les derniers Hommes collection.
My journey
Nearly 30 years through every revolution, and every storm
A pioneer of every wave: home automation in 1995, press e-commerce in 1998, mobile marketing in 2006 (two years before the iPhone), the AI studio in 2023. Understand fast, act boldly, never just endure.
The second crash came from a betrayal: while I was setting up our production subsidiary in China, associates were building a parallel company. It took me years to rebuild, alone. I didn't make it a scar; I made it raw material.
Today I run Apps Velocity with Pascal Roche, my long-time partner. It's the culmination of nearly thirty years of consulting and development, propelled since 2022 by artificial intelligence. More than a thousand projects delivered, five hundred mobile apps.
I'm a pluri-entrepreneur, not a serial one: I run several ventures in parallel, tied together by the same obsession with execution. I love sales and marketing as much as the tech, and that's what lets me carry a project end to end. In 2022, at 48, I launched the #JNPJ podcast to pass it on.
My three roles today
Entrepreneur
I run Apps Velocity with Pascal Roche: consulting, development and AI transformation. Over a thousand projects, five hundred mobile apps.
See Apps VelocityAuthor
I write to pass things on, from the field. « La voix à l'ère de l'IA » is out; « Je ne perds jamais » comes next.
Speaker
I take the stage to talk about entrepreneurship, resilience and AI. Lived experience, not crowded slides.
Book PatrickPodcaster
I host the #JNPJ podcast: 110 episodes of entrepreneur interviews. To build is to learn.
Listen to the podcastI never lose. Either I win, or I learn.
What drives me
The doer, not the theorist
An idea is worth nothing; only execution counts. I've built, failed, and started again. I speak from the field, never from a podium.
Resilience as a method
Two crashes, a betrayal, years spent rebuilding. None of it stopped me. A crash isn't an ending, it's raw material.
Passing on what I've learned
Podcast, books, talks. Everything nearly thirty years in the field taught me, I pass on to those who build.
Frequently asked questions about Patrick
Who is Patrick de Carvalho?
A 52-year-old French-Portuguese entrepreneur, a multi-entrepreneur for nearly 30 years, also an author, speaker and podcaster. He started on the web in the late 90s.
Which companies has he created?
About ten over his career, from Paris to China. Among his products: Smanck and GoVideoLive. He runs the Apps Velocity studio with Pascal Roche since late 2013.
What are his three pillars today?
The Je ne perds jamais® brand and ecosystem (podcast, books, talks, training), his work as an author and speaker, and Apps Velocity, the business studio he runs with Pascal Roche.
Where does his mantra come from?
From his first crash in the year 2000, when his company Planetepresse collapsed. He drew from it the mantra I never lose, either I win, or I learn, which never left him since.
How do I contact him?
Via the site's contact page, for a podcast, a talk, the book, the training or a publishing project. He reads everything and answers quickly.
Shall we work together?
A talk, training, an AI transformation project, or just a question. Tell me what brings you here, I'll answer.
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