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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.
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Episodes
189 episodes
#89 - A billion dollar exit 20 years in the making: Miguel Santos, Technisys
If you told 13-year-old Miguel Santos with his first Apple device that he'd grow up to build his own billion-dollar tech company, he might have had a hard time believing you.When Miguel started Technisys over 20 years ago, ...
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#88 - Altitud | Tackling the trade finance gap in LatAm: Santiago Molina, Finkargo
Colombian-born Santiago Molina got his degree in business administration and finance from Houston Baptist University on a soccer scholarship, and moved back to his home country after his MBA to start his entrepreneurial journey.
#87 - Impact entrepreneurship on the blockchain: Brett Hagler, New Story
By 2030, the UN predicts that 3 billion people will be living without shelter. Today's guest is doing something to combat that.Brett Hagler is a Y Combinator graduate, a published author and cancer survivor, but you may kno...
#86 - Investing in the future of LatAm tech: Angela Strange, a16z
Angela Strange is a multiple marathon winner and once achieved 7th place in Canada's distance running national ranking, but you may know her best as an investor on behalf of Andreessen Horowitz.Before joining the world of v...
#85 - Building from first principles: Francisco Larraín, Topsort
Francisco Larraín's professional journey tells a story of coming full circle.It all started as a founding team member for advertisement network Tapjoy. Having gotten a taste for the world of startups, he went on to found pa...
#84 - The paths to founder liquidity: Pierre Schurmann, nuvini
Pierre Schurmann has never shied away from great adventure: he and his family left Brazil when he was 15 with the goal of sailing around the world, and after 4 years of traveling with them, he disembarked in the US to obtain a degree in ...
#83 - Changing the VC narrative: Lolita Taub, Ganas Ventures
Lolita Taub has made it her mission to create generational wealth in community.As the daughter of a Mexican immigrant family, providing underestimated founders and funders with resources is at the core of what Lolita has set out ...
#82 - Earning a seat at the table: Bedy Yang, 500 Global
Born and raised in a chinese-brazilian family, Bedy Yang has a lengthy track record of consulting for global companies on go-to-market strategies in Brazil. She moved to the US at a time when there weren't many links between Silicon Vall...
#81 - Altitud | Building the e-commerce landscape in Venezuela: Vicente Zavarce, Yummy
Vicente Zavarce was born and raised in Venezuela, but went abroad to study in the US during his university years. He quickly found his way into their booming startup ecosystem, and went on to join Postmates' User Acquisition effor...
#80 - From 0 to unicorn in 8 months: Gerry Colyer, Clara
Before he knew he wanted to build a company, Gerry knew he wanted to make people’s lives better.Born in Monterrey, Gerry Colyer left Mexico to attend Yale University, then went on to pursue a degree from Stanford Busines...
#79 - Altitud | Bridging the technical skill gap: Fabio Muniz, Awari
Fabio Muniz is a product designer turned founder and CEO. He worked with clients such as Google and Viacom before transitioning to VC-backed startups until he found out we wanted to build his own.Awari came to be when Fabi...
#78 - Upskilling and reskilling for growth: Marta Forero Sepúlveda, UBITS
There's a famous anecdote in which a CFO asks the CEO: "What happens if we invest in developing our people and they leave us?" To that, the CEO responds: "What happens if we don't and they stay?"Upskilling teams is vital for businesses t...
#77 - Altitud | Radically challenging the status quo: Rafael Stark, Stark Bank
Rafael Stark is an engineer with problem-solving in his blood. He started his own Product Studio called Hummingbird and came across a client wanting to automate refunds, and that's where he realized there was a market-wide opportunity to...
#76 - Social mobility through open finance: Pablo Viguera, Belvo
The last 10 years have completely changed Latin America's financial landscape but, when compared to other more established regions, we still lack basic infrastructure, and that's what Pablo Viguera set out to build.With experience...
#75 - Altitud | Shaping the future of B2B payments: Nathan Schorr, Flexio
Born in the US and raised in Uruguay, Nathan is a football enthusiast currently splitting his time between Silicon Valley and Mexico City. As a third-time founder, his passion is in building companies that tackle Latin America's biggest ...
#74 - Building the Netflix of finance: Pierpaolo Barbieri, Ualá
Making history in LatAm's fintech industry is very on brand for today's guest.Born and raised in Buenos Aires, Pierpaolo Barbieri left Argentina to study in the US as a young adult. He returned 12 years later with a Harvard Univer...
#73 - Community-driven companies: Sahil Lavingia, Gumroad
Children are often fascinated with technology, and Sahil Lavingia's story isn't any different: he first started getting into computers at about 12, playing around with graphic design tools like Photoshop, and it soon naturally developed ...
#72 - Financial inclusion through Crypto: Daniel Vogel, Bitso
Universal as it may seem now, in 2014 access to banking services was still very much limited in several LatAm countries. That realization was what sparked Daniel Vogel's idea of democratizing financial services through the existing but u...
#71 - The runway from seed to exit: Rodrigo Baer, SoftBank
With over 10 years of experience in Brazil's VC scene, Rodrigo Baer was hearing pitches and offering offering term sheets long before the LatAm capital craze started. He has an unquestionable understanding of the country's entrepreneuria...
#70 - Building teams that bridge gaps: Daniel Bilbao, Truora
In his own words, Daniel Bilbao is a friend to all latino entrepreneurs. He went from spreading papelitos in Comic Sans looking for engineers to shaping the future of fraud prevention in Latin America. Born and raised in Colombi...
#69 - Altitud | Alex Vilhena from Plug Pagamentos and the future of payment solutions
Alex Vilhena was born in Rio de Janeiro, but moved to Los Angeles to pursue a Bachelor's degree in Communications and had a chance to try out the startup scene in the US. Big lover of jiu-jitsu, he has over 10 years of client-facing r...
#68 - Achieving ridiculous goals: Andres Bilbao, Rappi and Invert
Andres Bilbao is a Colombian triple threat, and that goes far beyond being fluent in three languages: he's a unicorn entrepreneur, an angel investor, and a trusted advisor to many others in the LatAm startup ecosystem.He was one o...
#67 - Fueling innovation in LatAm: Florian Hagenbuch, Loft
Entrepreneurship is much like running into a wall until you knock it down, and German-born Florian Hagenbuch has committed to making sure that the wall stays down for those coming after him.Florian founded Loft to di...
#66 - Building with no-code: Jeff Orr, webuildyourapps.com
Very few people are product builders at heart, and Jeff Orr is one of them - he founded Maply to connect people to events happening in real-time around them, and has helped the likes of Delt.ai and Noonlight improve their own product and...
#65 - Raising a record-breaking Series A in LatAm: Dhaval Chadha, Justos
Starting four different companies AND dabbling into music production isn't for everyone, but Dhaval Chadha has managed to balance the two passions just fine.Other than his musician profiles on streaming platforms, you'll find Dhav...