It’s funny to write about the startup ecosystem in Porto Alegre (POA), the city I was born and where I spent 30 years of my life. Why is it funny? Well, a true startup ecosystem takes some time to be built – and if you asked a gaúcho (that’s how we call ourselves) 10 years ago, what is a startup, most of us would think it’s a new sandwich from McDonalds. But that changed. Or maybe it didn’t change at all – it just naturally evolved, since I was one of those guys that would as