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Alcir Candido Goncalves / enterprise AI sales and builder

I sell technology, and I build it.

Fifteen years getting products bought and used across the Americas, from Brazilian telecom to Meta's biggest accounts to its pre-launch AI. Now I build the AI tools myself too. Most people pick one side of the table. Working both is the point.

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01 / The short version

Alcir Candido Goncalves

Alcir Candido Goncalves

New York and Sao Paulo

I have spent fifteen years getting technology bought and used. Lately I have started building it myself.

I started in Brazil, in telecom, running sales intelligence and trade marketing for TIM. We took priority markets from third place to first, and I learned how a product really wins: not in the demo, but in the unglamorous work of getting a real business to change how it operates.

That work brought me to New York and to Meta. For seven years I carried the marquee Tech and Telco book, Verizon, Dell, Peloton, Charter, owning the executive relationships and structuring deals up to $100M.

Then the job changed. I moved into Meta's Product Incubation group, selling pre-launch AI that has no playbook yet, from the first pitch to paying customers. To sell it honestly I started using it constantly, and then building with it, wiring together multi-agent tools that solved real problems instead of waiting for someone else to.

That is the part I care about now. I can sell the technology and I can build it. Most people do one. The two keep making each other sharper.

02 / In the room

Where the work actually happens

Alcir presenting at the NYU Stern Leadership Storytelling Summit
NYU Stern Leadership Storytelling Summit
Alcir leading a NotebookLM workshop at NYU Stern
NotebookLM workshop, NYU Stern
Alcir presenting a Meta Business AI session
Meta Business AI, streamed to Workplace
Alcir with the winning team at the BTE Hackathon
BTE Hackathon judge, NYU Stern and Microsoft Garage
Alcir at a tech event in New York
On the floor, New York

03 / Selected work

I build what I sell

I have shipped multi-agent tools end to end with Claude Code, including one that cleared a PII compliance gap that engineering had been stuck on for months. Building the kind of thing I sell is unusual on the commercial side, and it changes every conversation.

Selling what has no playbook

In Meta's Product Incubation group I take pre-launch AI to enterprise advertisers. Last cycle I was the largest individual contributor on the team and finished at 131% of target, mostly by being a genuine user of the product rather than a slide about it.

Both sides of the table

I have closed deals up to $100M from the sell side, and I run my own paid acquisition on the buy side: Google and Meta Ads, GA4, landing-page testing, the full unit economics. I know what the advertiser sees because I am one.

WhatsApp Business in the U.S.

I was part of the team that brought WhatsApp Business and Business Messaging to the U.S., owning the new-business motion for a category that did not exist here yet. It taught me how a genuinely new product earns its way into real companies.

04 / Speaking and judging

I speak when the work is worth sharing, usually about how AI actually gets adopted, not how it demos.

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NY Tech Week, by a16z Panel: AI, the next decade of work, capital and culture
Meta Future Forward, Ad Innovation Forum Talk: AI that converts
NYU Stern Leadership Storytelling Summit NotebookLM workshop
BTE Hackathon, NYU Stern and Microsoft Garage Invited judge, April 2026

05 / Beyond the day job

Executive MBA, NYU Stern

I am completing my Executive MBA at NYU Stern, concentration in AI Strategy, the deliberate strategy layer on top of two decades of carrying real revenue. Class of 2027.

Published author

Contributing author to Pagina Internacional: Percepcoes de um Mundo em Movimento, an international affairs anthology published in Brazil.

Earlier

Postgraduate specialization in business strategy at FIA, Sao Paulo. Bachelor's in International Relations at UNESP. I work in English, Portuguese, and Spanish.

Alcir with his NYU Stern Executive MBA cohort
With my NYU Stern Executive MBA cohort, global residency

06 / Contact

If you are building a team that has to sell and ship the hard stuff, I would like to talk.