Álvaro Pintado

Álvaro Pintado Santaularia (born 3 July 2004) is a Spanish technology entrepreneur and businessman. He is the founder and CEO of hello.app, a decentralized P2P startup. He founded hello.app at the age of 17. Pintado, also known for having an IQ of 142 and being a member of Mensa International, is the author of El Sistema Financiero Descentralizado, a book about DeFi and how the decentralized financial system could replace the traditional one.

Education and career
He studied at Viaró Global School, then started college at UPC (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) to study Telecommunications Engineering but dropped out after 3 months to continue with his entrepreneurship career. He started in the world of business at the age of 17 when he created hello.app and Whispr, a SaaS (software as a service) based on artificial intelligence. In the same year he published his first book entitled "The decentralized financial system". Currently, together with his partner Alexander Baikalov, he has created hello.app, a startup that wants to revolutionize the way information is stored in the cloud.

hello.app is based on blockchain, decentralized storage and distributed databases.