About me
Patrick de Carvalho
You run a mid-sized company, AI is bearing down on you, and nobody tells you where to start. I have been there, inside my own companies, at every technology wave for thirty years. That road is what I put at your disposal. From the field, never from theory.
What my track record changes for you
A partner who goes behind your back, a market that collapses, a whole year to redo: if you are living through that right now, you are not talking to someone who read about it in a book. I lived it twice, once through a betrayal while I was setting up our production arm in China. I rebuilt everything, alone.
When I talk to you about a budget, a deadline or an architecture, it comes from more than a thousand projects delivered and five hundred mobile applications, with Pascal Roche, my long-time partner. You are not facing a firm that subcontracts: you are facing the people who build.
I run several projects in parallel and I like selling as much as engineering. For you that means one thing: no beautiful strategy nobody can execute, and no technical feat nobody buys.
Which door we can work through
AI advisor for executives
You want someone who has already put AI into production at home, not a consultant who theorises. We start with where it actually pays off for you, then we deploy. With Apps Velocity, which I run with Pascal Roche.
See Apps VelocityMy books
Would you rather judge for yourself before talking to me? Read. « Je ne perds jamais », my mental handbook, and my professional books on AI, including « Voice in the Age of AI ».
On your stage
You are running an event and you want the room to leave with something actionable. I come to talk about entrepreneurship, resilience and AI. Lived experience, not overloaded slides.
Book PatrickThe podcast, free
110 episodes of interviews with founders, freely available. To build is to learn: better you learn from our mistakes than pay full price for your own.
Listen to the podcastI never lose. Either I win, or I learn.
What you will find across the table
Visionary
Home automation in 1995. E-commerce in 1998. Mobile marketing in 2006, two years before the iPhone. AI in 2022. Which means: I am not discovering the wave at the same time as you, and I already know where it breaks.
Capacity and speed of execution
The idea is worth nothing, only execution counts. A construction ERP shipped in six weeks, a branded podcast delivered in 72 hours. For you that means seeing something run in weeks, instead of waiting for a steering committee at quarter end.
Resilience
Two crashes, one betrayal, years spent rebuilding everything on my own. It is not a method I apply, it is what is left when everything has fallen. The day your project goes off the rails, and that day always comes, you will know I do not walk away.
Passing it on
Podcast, books, talks, training. What nearly thirty years in the field taught me, I hand to you, including what failed. You do not have to pay again for lessons I already paid for.
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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