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Livia Kuga

Livia Kuga

Co-founder & COO at Alia

São Paulo, Brazil
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Joined August 2026
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Alia is an AI that proactively coordinates your team for you. It monitors the many interactions happening across a company (for example, Slack) to catch misalignments, hold people accountable, and manage dependencies across teams — Alia suggests actions; the human decides.
I'm looking for intros to founder-CEOs at 15+ person companies feeling the AI-adoption-vs-output gap, and to other Speedrun/YC-adjacent builders.
Co-founder & COO of Alia; currently part of a16z Speedrun (SR007).
Scaled people operations at Stone Pagamentos from founding team to 15,000+ employees; hired up to 700 people per month at peak — operator credibility. exame+2

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Cyclic model aids professionals in career decisions

August 1, 2025

Article presenting the Cyclic Career Decision Model, based on a systematic review of career decision literature, proposing a tool to guide continuous self-assessment and alignment between skills, interests and opportunities.

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Exploring the career decidedness–career adaptability nexus: new avenues for research from a grounded theory study

January 1, 2023

Master's research (presentation/publication) investigating profiles of career decidedness and its relation to career adaptability using grounded theory methods.

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Technology and Humans: One path

January 1, 2022

An essay examining the relationship between technology and humans and advocating for improved interaction and education to prepare workforces for technological change.

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