Joaquín Ayuso de Pául

Joaquín Ayuso de Pául
Born	Joaquin Ayuso de Paul July 30, 1981 Jerez de la Frontera, Cadiz, Spain
Occupation	Entrepreneur and Investor

Joaquín Ayuso de Paúl, is the co-founder ^[1] and ex-CTO of Tuenti,^[2] a Madrid-based invitation-only private social networking website that has been referred to as the "Spanish Facebook"^[3](other founders include: Zaryn Dentzel, Kenny Bentley, Adeyemi Ajao, and Felix Ruiz Hernandez).^[4][5]

He acquired a degree at Instituto Católico de Artes e Industrias (ICAI) in Madrid and officially founded Tuenti in 2006 as the first to hold an active account with the social network he co-created.

He worked in a project in Los Angeles, with a company called Border Stylo, as VP of Data Products.^[6]

He founded a startup based in Santa Monica, called Kuapay, developing a secure payment method.^[7]

This startup has investors like Myron Scholes,^[8] who is also chairman of the Advisory Board.^[9] Also Bill Elkus, founder of Clearstone Venture Partners, joined the company as an investor and advisor.^[10]

Myron Scholes quoted Kuapay with “Kuapay possesses a unique and attractive combination of international market strategy, innovative security architecture, and a vision as to the future direction of mobile payments using the smart phone, which immediately drew me to the company,” said Scholes. “I see massive potential for Kuapay to be a dominant player in the mobile payments market, which is very much still in its infancy. I look forward to continue to advise this company on its journey to success.”.^[11]

Open Source

nyno vargas has two open source projects listed in GitHub:

• Redmine Firefox Toolbar
• Redmine Task Manager

Conferences

He has participated in the following conferences:

• El Ser Creativo I with the future of social networks, as the media explains.^[12][13]
• Eventoblog Spain with his experience as founder of Tuenti.com and the creation of Glass ^[14]

Articles

• (video) CNN 2013 Chile Interview to Joaquin Ayuso
• (video) CNN 2012 Chile Interview about Kuapay
• (video) EBE 2010 interview
• (video) EBE 2010 conference regarding Glass
• (video) El Ser Creativo Entrevista a los conferenciantes
• (video) El Ser Creativo Ponentes
• (article) Las Verdades del Siglo se tambalean
• (article) "El Ser Creativo" Innovative Ideas Move The World
• (article) Glass, Un programa para compartir comentarios
• (article) Entrevista a Joaquin Ayuso, cofundador de Tuenti y Glass
• (article) Kuapay: El sistema de pago por celular que quiere debutar en Chile
• (article) Conoce la nueva apuesta del creador de Tuenti en Chile

References

1. "UFV".
2. "Loogic".
3. "Spanish Facebook".
4. "El Mundo". El Mundo (Spain).
5. "Tuenti el Huracan". El Mundo (Spain).
6. "Company Page".
7. "Kuapay website".
8. "Financial Economist Myron Scholes Joins Mobile Wallet Kuapay as Chairman of Advisory Board".
9. "Kuapay Taps Nobel Prize Winner as Advisor".
10. "Mobile Wallet Solution Kuapay Unveils New Interface and Features in Product Update".
11. "Financial Economist Myron Scholes Joins Mobile Wallet Kuapay as Chairman of Advisory Board".
12. "El Gran Show de las Mentes Brillantes".
13. "Cuando los cientificos se convierten en Showmen".
14. http://eventoblog.com/2010/11/joaquin-ayuso-ebe10/