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Latitud Podcast
Get inspired by Latin America’s most prominent tech founders and investors. They share personal and actionable insights on how to scale, raise capital, and become a better leader. Presented by Brian Requarth, Latitud’s cofounder.
Top 1% most shared globally on Spotify in 2022.
Episodes
189 episodes
#114 – Building extraordinary fintechs from Latin America: Creditas and dLocal at Vamos Latam Summit
You've probably heard from our friends at a16z that every company will become a fintech. Latin America's one of the most fertile grounds for the providers of new financial products and services. There are over a thousand fintechs in the region....
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#113 – Thinking big from day 0: Rappi, Jeeves, and Linker at Vamos Latam Summit
Being a startup founder comes with a big ambition. To conquer your dreams, however, you should learn the best practices for launching your business, fundraising, and hiring talent.Taking advice from founders who have either exited or tra...
#112 — Lessons from the Brazilian who co-founded Instagram: Mike Krieger at Vamos Latam Summit
Not many people know or believe that Instagram has a Brazilian as a co-founder. Mike Krieger was not only that – he was also the sole developer for Instagram during its early stages.Between the ideation of a mobile...
#111 – Non-obvious advice to startup founders and LatAm's upper hand: Pete Flint, NFX, at Vamos Latam Summit
We've talked with Pete Flint before. He's a brit deeply immersed in Silicon Valley startup culture and someone who has ushered in two unicorn companies – one of which, Trulia, was the inspiration behind my business, Viva Real. He's now h...
#110 – Why you need to pay more attention to LatAm's tech boom: Ana Martins and Julio Vasconcellos, Atlantico
After more than two years of a global pandemic, some habits are here to stay. In Latin America, even more so. The boom in tech adoption has held up more in the region when comparing it to the US. But even with this growth, the potential for tec...
#109 – How to create a unicorn when you're 23 years old: Alfonso de los Ríos, Nowports
Alfonso De Los Ríos is 23 years old, but his startup experience goes way beyond what you'd imagine for his age. He's the co-founder of Nowports, a startup that is bringing tech to the international supply chain and helping compani...
#108 – Network effects and startup growth strategies: James Currier, NFX
James Currier is an expert in a key ingredient behind the success of companies like Meta, Uber, and Amazon. The key ingredient? Network effects. They happen when a company's product or service becomes more v...
#107 – From founder to an investor in startups that solve the hardest problems in LatAm: Jimena Pardo, ALLVP
Jimena Pardo started her startup journey after having a chat with the venture capital fund ALLVP. The Mexican venture capital fund focused on solving the hardest problems in Spanish-speaking Latin America and eventually wrote a ch...
#106 - Building massive and remote companies, plus lessons from Facebook: Jonathan Gheller, Matilda Explorations
Jonathan Gheller went from selling tequeños, or fried cheese breadsticks, to being a founder of companies sold to Facebook and Google. In a world where unit economics became the new king for startups, Gheller is a long-...
#105 - US$ 30M for early-stage startups in LatAm: Bianca Sassoon, 17Sigma
Out of the billions of VC dollars that poured into Latin America in 2021, only 4% were allocated in seed and pre-seed rounds. For the investors at 17Sigma, that's where the biggest opportunity to find the next big thing lies – and LatAm ...
#104 – How to balance change and control to scale: Maite Muniz, Truora
When it comes to communicating in Latin America, WhatsApp is king: people use it every day, all the time. But how many times did you sign a contract or had your ID checked via WhatsApp? That's a US$ 3.5 billion potential addressable market acco...
#103 - Patterns and opportunities in emerging markets: Allen Taylor, Endeavor Catalyst
Pretty much everyone knows Endeavor, which is a thriving global community for high-impact entrepreneurs. What you might not know is that Endeavor also has a co-investment arm called Endeavor Catalyst, which has over US$ 500 millio...
#102 - Lessons from Amazon and high-performance cultures: Alex Szapiro, Softbank
Alex Szapiro is a veteran when it comes to working with tech in Brazil. He was part of the early Submarino team and served as the country manager for Palm, Apple and Amazon, where he helped bring its ...
#101 - The Latitud Fundraising Playbook: Tomi Roggio, Latitud
As a founder, you likely go out to raise money a handful of times during your journey. Investors, on the other hand, live and breathe pitches and term sheets everyday. Leveraging your position in the face of asymmetry is not an easy task – but ...
#100 - How we raised our $13M seed round: Brian Requarth, Latitud
You might have heard on the news a while back that Latitud raised a $13M seed round co-led by a16z and NfX.Today, we are going to do something a bit different: to celebrate our podcast's 100th episode, I'm going to tell you...
#99 - Why investors are not trying to game you right now: Paulo Passoni, ex-Softbank
It was early 2019 when Softbank's official landing in Latin America marked the largest-ever technology fund focused exclusively in the region. LatAm was breaking its own records in terms capital injection, and the firm had already tested...
#98 - Building global from the beginning: Gabriel Engel, Rocket.chat
Communicating safely and practically is something that interests everyone, from government agencies and big banks to small businesses and communities. That's the concept behind Rocket.Chat, an open source communication platform that bega...
#97 - Passionate users, small checks, incredible value: Ali Moiz, Stonks
What if Twitch, AngelList and Shark Tank had a baby?That's the question Ali Moiz decided to address as a business opportunity, and the baby is none other than Stonks.Ali is a self-identified Meme Dealer with...
#96 - Building a community that trusts itself in Latin America: Ana Paula González, Softbank Miami
I think we can call it: Miami has established itself as one of the most important tech hubs not just in the US, but for all countries south of it. As much as the recent boom seems sudden though, the concentration of LatAm startups and opportuni...
#95 - Brace for the storm and profit from it: Martín Escobari, General Atlantic
Bolivian entrepreneur Martin Escobari went from growing up in a small town to graduating from Harvard. Upon moving to Brazil, he co-founded one of LatAm’s first startup IPOs in 2005: e-commerce platform Submarino became a huge industry p...
#94 - Building a capital-efficient fintech from the ground up: Santiago Suarez, Addi
Santiago Suarez is the Co-Founder and CEO of the “Buy Now Pay Later” solution, Addi. Through Addi’s rapid ascent, Santi has been a central figure in the boom in online sales and e-commerce since the COVID-19 pandemic,...
#93 - Why share what you know: Matias Woloski, Auth0
Matias Woloski is the CTO and co-founder at Auth0, a developer-first identity platform born in 2013 that became Argentina's 5th unicorn in 2019. With clients in over 70 countries, it grew to become a global leader in...
#92 - Polishing an opportunity like a diamond: Stelleo Tolda, Mercado Libre
Mercado Libre began in a Buenos Aires garage in 1999, when online shopping was pretty much all about eBay auctions. Now the biggest company in Latin America, Meli is valued at over 50 billion dollars and active in 18 countries<...
#91 - Knowing when to pivot: Deepak Chhugani, Nuvocargo
What would you do if you had $1.2M in funding and suddenly realized you need to kill the business? In 2018, Deepak Chhugani had a YC-backed startup in the HR space that wasn't going anywhere. He went back to the drawing board and decided it was...
#90 - Creating a business expansion playbook: Jose Jair Bonilla, Chiper
Jose Jair Bonilla co-founder and CEO of Chiper, the leading B2B e-commerce platform for independent corner stores in Latin America.He co-founded and led software studio imaginamos in Colombia and served clients in 10...