About Me
Margarida is a founding team member and COO at poolside. Before joining poolside, Margarida spent two years as a venture capitalist at Beacon Capital, primarily investing in early-stage deep tech companies. Prior to that, she served as COO at Lifebit, an AI genomics platform for developers, where she played a key role in growing the company from Day 0 to their $60M Series B round. Margarida's earlier experience includes working at source{d}, applying AI to code and software. In both source{d} and Lifebit, Margarida joined when the companies were Day 0 and only had its founders, while at Beacon Capital she was critical to raising their first fund. Next to her day jobs, Margarida helped raise over $100M in capital for founders she mentored.
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Building the Future of Coding with AI
AI is rapidly evolving from autocomplete assistants to autonomous coding agents and increasingly integrated in the workplace. Coding and software development is now at the forefront of this evolution, providing us with an outlook on the impact of AI. With coding becoming both the battleground and the accelerator for AI development, questions arise around the tech job market disruptions, redefining the software industry, and intensifying competition among tech leaders.