Fred Oliveira
12 Nov 2025etn. Episode 9
Waiting for @F: Viral 'Assholes per Capita' Chart & Sponsors
With guest Fred Oliveira delayed, the hosts check his @F Twitter handle (registered in 2006), joke about producers teleoperating cars around Lisbon to find him, and discuss whether remote drivers need special road-safety training. They break down a viral chart ranking "assholes per capita" by industry — tech lowest, politics highest — which Musk quote-tweeted with "agree," and muse about sitting at the tech-media intersection. Sponsor reads for Forsa, ACI.dev and Airwallex are mixed in before Fred finally gets patched through from the waiting room.
Fred Oliveira: TechCrunch Employee #1 & Lisbon AI
Fred Oliveira explains he got the @F handle by being early to Twitter through the original team, and has turned down offers over the years because it's tied to his identity. He recounts becoming TechCrunch's first employee in 2005 — hunting startups in Palo Alto garages at a time when a post could even trigger acquisitions — before returning to Portugal for consultancy and then twelve years in VC. He describes Lisbon AI, the two-day event he co-organized with builders from Cursor, ElevenLabs and Lovable, mixing technical talks with AI ethics, and argues the media landscape is now a "vibes" game where podcasts, video and live shows are the formats of the moment.