Caio Mesquita, Felipe Miranda, Rodolfo Amstalden

Caio César de Arruda Mesquita, Felipe Abi Acl de Miranda and Rodolfo Amstalden are founding partners of the financial consulting company Empiricus Research, owner of 50% of the portal O Antagonista.

Caio Mesquita already worker in the financial market before creating Empiricus, Felipe Miranda was a professor at FGV in 2010 and Rodolfo Amstalden worked as a consultant for International Paper and as a professor at Faculdade Cásper Líbero. The three are partners at Sextus, which is associated to the north-american The Agora at Empiricus. They are also partners at other businesses based on newsletter sale and at portifolio management companies in the financial market.

They gained considerable projection after the 2014 video “O Fim do Brasil” (Brazil’s End), sponsored for broadcast in social media and Google Ads, where they drew a disastrous scenario for the national economy while attacking the policies of then president Dilma Rousseff.