Pablo Laurino

Pablo — Argentine-born founder and CEO of Publica.la (QueryLoop, Inc.), a B2B SaaS digital publishing platform serving 1,000+ organizations across 50+ countries, with customers including Penguin Random House, Grupo Planeta, Santillana, and Forbes. He co-founded the company in 2016 and has scaled it into Latin America's leading digital publishing infrastructure: ~89% gross margins, 101% YoY revenue growth, Rule of 40 of 150. He's currently running a structured exit process at a $10–20M enterprise value with Discretion Capital, Aventis, and Scaleview as M&A advisors. Multilingual (Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, English), educated at Escuela Normal Superior "Mariano Acosta" in Buenos Aires. Portuguese tax resident under NHR 1.0, currently living temporarily in Bergamo while staying under the 183-day threshold. His partner Caroline runs Invest Like a Girl, a Brazilian financial education platform, and they share a Shar Pei named Vito who's recovering from complex orthopedic surgery in Cremona. Beyond Publica.la, Pablo runs a portfolio of side projects — FridgeChef (an AI Thermomix companion app), Ebooks Depository (a 500K+ title book discovery platform), Automate Your Portfolio (an eToro rebalancing tool), and Volpe (a reading/annotation prototype) — alongside two Lisbon rental apartments and an eToro Popular Investor portfolio optimized for NHR tax treatment. Operationally, he runs a tight leadership cadence with five direct reports (Nico, Franco, Tomas, Ig, Lara) using a Granola + Linear + Slack stack, and is a heavy Claude Code user. Long-standing interests include geopolitics, history, Star Wars and ASOIAF lore, Italian and Argentine cooking, and the future of publishing.Opus 4.7Adaptive