The company stated that "I have not seen it!" she gave all her solidarity and support to her family members. 19659003] "Unfortunately, today is a sad day, I lost a brother that life had given me, much more than a partner or a friend, it was my brother Guto, a simple and brilliant guy, who spent 4 great years together building a dream called Foxbit, he goes with God because here on earth I have only good memories. "
João Canhada and Guto Schiavon (Facebook / Reproduction)
Luis Augusto Schiavon Ramos, Guto
Guto was one of the best known names of the community of cryptomoedas in Brazil . He founded Foxbit with João Canhada in 2014.
He was born in Marília, but lived all his life in Pompeii, two cities in the interior of São Paulo.
Guto has always been very connected to technology, as he himself has stated. when told his story on the company's blog in April of this year.
"I started my life at age 11 as a customer service and community management moderating the Ragnarok Online Server Forums" – an online game with thousands of players
At age 14, he came into contact with formal work when he received a small apprentice scholarship in an agricultural machinery manufacturing company, where he collaborated for two years.
Guto did not stop.
Two years later, they returned to the competition and won the silver medal for the creation of an electric forklift.
More It was still not what the young man was looking for. He left the team and focused on the study of information systems. He took over as web programmer.
First "contact" with bitcoin
Guto explained that his first contact with cryptomeoeda was due to his relentless curiosity for technology.
In the middle of the year 2011, he ended up reading something about bitcoin but "the content was very technical and rare", so it did not give much thing. they pbaded and chance struck again at his door. He saw Bitcoin being news in various media because of its value.
"Then curiosity is back! Around 2013, I joined a Facebook group called" Bitcoin Brasil "and started to learn more about it.I bought a video card, I minais litecoin and I wrote several articles for blogs. "
Guto created the website" Pay with Bitcoin ". He thought the platform would help Bitcoin to be more usable. The project has been a success and exists today, but managed by someone else. Guto wanted more
The Mariliense began sending programs in this new sector – he proposed to work for free in a brokerage company to double his knowledge.
However, among countless exchanges of ideas with colleagues in the community, including João Canhada, Guto was certain that the next step would be to create a cryptocurrency broker.
"I have already earned my own money, the idea of taking it seemed so natural and a new challenge."
Guto did not have all the support of the family and was closing his college, which really makes fathers and mothers sad, knowing all the more that the investment would be in an unfamiliar region .
Foxbit: The Beginnings
Guto said that First and foremost, the creation of Foxbit was mainly due to the trust that united them, because with the floor of the car at the time it There seemed to be little chance that the job would work. They persisted.
"Supper on one side, the notebook on the other".
Guto and his badociates worked hard. "It did not matter if it was Christmas, New Year, Easter … with the open notebook and the supper next to it, we were available to solve the customer problem all the time," he said.
This perseverance of serving customers at all times did
Thus, the company grew and began to hire more employees for its first office in the southern area of São Paulo