Ricardo Teixeira

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Founder at Vellum Grid · D2C food brands

Vellum Grid
São Paulo, Brazil · BRT (UTC-3)
13+ years experience
PUCP
English, Portuguese
Hiring
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Overview

Building Vellum Grid in São Paulo - D2C food brands. Took Vellum Grid from zero to $7 million ARR. Raised $19 million across 3 rounds. Learning woodworking.

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Skills
consumer brandssupply chainfundraisingmarketing
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Hiring our first product designer at Vellum Grid - São Paulo or remote

Role
Product designer
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
Remote
Compensation
$147k-$214k + equity
Team
Founding team, 6 people
Start
Within two months
Must have
A portfolio of shipped product work Comfort working directly with engineers Comfort with ambiguity
Process
3 conversations, no take-home

Comp R$18k-R$38k a month. One technical chat and a paid trial day. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

São Paulo, Brazil · remote OKmarketingsupply chainfundraising
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Experience

  1. Founder
    Apr 2023 - Present
    Vellum Grid · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · São Paulo, Brazil
    • Raised $40 million across 2 rounds.
    • Grew the team to 112 people across 4 countries.
  2. Controller
    Dec 2021 - Apr 2023
    LATAM Airlines · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · São Paulo, Brazil
    • Ran diligence on 7 acquisitions.
    • Took forecast accuracy to within 4% for 9 straight quarters.
  3. Controller
    Mar 2019 - Oct 2021
    Ualá · 2 yr 7 mo · Full-time · São Paulo, Brazil
    • Built the operating model the board used for a $174 million raise.
  4. Finance Manager
    Mar 2017 - Mar 2019
    McKinsey & Company · 2 yr · Full-time · São Paulo, Brazil
    • Built the operating model the board used for a $43 million raise.
    • Saved $8 million a year renegotiating vendor contracts.
  5. Finance Director
    Oct 2013 - Jan 2017
    Globant · 3 yr 3 mo · Full-time · São Paulo, Brazil
    • Took forecast accuracy to within 2% for 8 straight quarters.

Projects

Write-up: D2C food brands in practice
2026

A long-form guide to D2C food brands for people starting out.

D2C food brands benchmark
2024

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Education

  1. PUCP
    Ingeniería, Business Administration
    2009 - 2013

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