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Rod's Universe

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My life in fragments

Every dot here is a real fragment pulled from my records — job titles, cities lived in, books read, blog posts, essays written — classified by Craft, Systems, Scale, Wonder, Passage, Kinship.

This is a playful way I found to collect many elements of my life that represent the professional I have become.

In 2006, Jonathan Harris and Sepandar Kamvar built We Feel Fine, an "emotional search engine" that crawled the web's blogs for the phrase "I feel," turning millions of strangers' feelings into a swarming, searchable field of colored particles. This piece borrows that form.

The six categories

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Rodrigo Borges

Business Development · Business Design · Growth Marketing
Toronto, ON · roipborges@gmail.com · linkedin.com/in/rodrigoborgess · rodrigolpborges.com
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20+ years building revenue engines and go-to-market systems from the ground up — as a startup co-founder, enterprise B2B sales leader, and marketing function builder. Executive MBA, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto.

Experience
Nrolled — Co-Founder & CMO2023–Present
Built the brand and go-to-market from zero; grew a pool of 1,000+ freelancers in the first month.
Spin Group — VP of Global Sales2019–Present
Designed the B2B sales playbook; +62% business opportunities, +50% revenue over two years.
Spin Group — Operations Manager2015–2018
Launched a new business unit in real-time asset management; doubled its annual revenue; led expansion into three Asian markets.
Spin Group — Marketing Manager2013–2015
Founded the marketing department from scratch; introduced scalable systems for long-term brand visibility.
WWF-Brazil — Digital Strategist2011–2013
+15% organic engagement and follower growth; managed the five-year budget of the Water Brazil program.
Plá — Creative Director2009–2011
Secured 3 major new accounts in one year; won 5 regional creative awards.
Doisnovemeia — Creative Director & Agency Lead2005–2007
Promoted from copywriter to president within two years; +20% revenue while holding company culture.
Education
Executive MBA2022–2024
Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
Post-Graduate Diploma in Administration2015–2017
FIA – University of São Paulo (USP)
Bachelor of Advertising2003–2007
University of Brasília
Certifications

PMP (2019) · PMI-ACP (2020) · PSPO I (2021)

the pattern

I connect what doesn't obviously connect.
Then I build the structure that holds it together.

Advertising taught me the story. Spin taught me the system. Nrolled taught me how to build. Rotman gave the whole thing a name: business design.

"Lightly, with wings, it's easier to get from one point to another" — from an essay I wrote in 2022, about wrestling with being a generalist in a world built for specialists, and doing it anyway.

This is my case file, made from my own material — not a claim about myself, but the evidence for it.

— Rodrigo Borges
rodrigo borges

Rod's Universe

This is Rodrigo's universe. Or a part of it, at least.

Every dot inside is real: a career passage, a city I lived in, a year's book count, a blog post, a job, a belief, pulled from my records.

Click a dot to open it. Search to narrow the field. Murmurs let them speak one at a time, in order.

Color marks the kind of category — craft, systems, scale, wonder, passage, or kinship.