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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
#64 - The power of network effects: Pete Flint, NFX
Born in Essex, England, Pete Flint is a brit deeply immersed in Silicon Valley startup culture. He's a titan of disruptive innovation and a widely respected leader in the tech industry, and was one of my early supporters at Viva R...
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#63 - Reaching a $500 million valuation in a year: Dileep Thazhmon, Jeeves
Founders outside of Silicon Valley have always had a harder time accessing capital, and Latin America is no exception. Add that to the difficulty of paying for global company expenses in local currency and you have yourself a market ripe...
#62 - Creating the YC of fund managers: Winter Mead, Oper8r
Winter Mead grew up on a maple syrup farm in New England. After writing his grad-school thesis on technology trends in digital media, he relocated to Silicon Valley to test his own theories. Now teaching about entrepreneurship and ventur...
#61 - Building deep relationships as a founder: Sebastian Kreis, Xepelin
Fintech is extremely hot in Latin America.Chilean entrepreneur Sebastian Kreis is seeing this opportunity and is building Xepelin with the goal to be the leading SMB digital bank in LatAm. Xepelin is one of the fastest grow...
#60 - Pivoting to success: Pamela Valdés, Beek
About 6 years ago, Pamela Valdés was faced with an important choice between a full scholarship for university in the US or dropping out to get her business off the ground. As you may have guessed, the latter won. That was the...
#59 - Building the largest tech school in Latin America: Freddy Vega, Platzi
Over the last few years, Latin America has been seeing more and more people interested in founding a startup. To them, Freddy Vega has one advice: don't do it.The deterrence may sound strange, especially coming from someone who is...
#58 - Dealing with a chip on your shoulder: Martin Schrimpff, Kocomo
From a young age, Martin Schrimpff was always looking for entrepreneurial opportunities, whether that was selling chocolate or doing raffles at school. His first official business, though, was founded right after university: a software d...
#57 - Altitud | Iona Szkurnik from Education Journey and aggregating the most innovative edtechs in one place
Born in Brazil, Iona Szkurnik arrived in California 8 years ago. After graduating from Stanford University as a Lemann Fellow, she worked at a couple of Silicon Valley companies and taught at Menlo Park and Palo Alto public-school...
#56 - Developing the future leaders of LatAm: Diego Ontaneda & David Baptista, LALA
What does it take for Latin America to have the next Nelson Mandela, Greta Thunberg, or a few thousand more David Vélez?LALA, the Latin American Leadership Academy, believes it's about unleashing the potential in young peop...
#55 - Altitud | Salvador Rivero from Levo and building a high-yield savings account for Mexico
Salvador Rivero is a self-proclaimed fintech geek. Born and raised in Mexico City, he's trained in Political Science and Finance at Science-Po in France. With 9 years of experience in the investment industry, he allocated more tha...
#54 - Building a $30 billion "skyscraper": David Vélez, Nubank
When he was 12, David Vélez made his first investment: a cow. Bought with birthday money and savings from summer jobs, that one cow eventually became six, which were then sold and turned into his college tuition at Stanford.
#53 - Becoming the youngest female VC partner in LatAm: Antonia Rojas, ALLVP
Chile is a country that, despite being a smaller market in LatAm, has always pushed to be at the forefront of innovation. It is home to Startup Chile, the birthplace of two unicorns, and also where Antonia Rojas is from.Last year,...
#52 - Pioneering open banking in LatAm: Benjamin Gleason, Guiabolso
Nine years ago, the terms fintech and open banking barely even existed in Latin America.But Benjamin Gleason was already working on building Guiabolso, a personal finance platform that helped improve the lives of millions o...
#51 - The future of Fintech in LatAm: Ana Cristina Gadala-Maria, QED Investors
Fintech is a global trend at the moment, and having people who truly understand it is as valuable as ever.With a Bachelor's from Stanford and a Harvard MBA, Ana Cristina Gadala-Maria certainly fits this description.&...
#50 - Redefining venture capital: Ben Casnocha, Village Global
Ben Casnocha was practically born an entrepreneur. In his teenage years, he started and scaled a couple of companies, before becoming Chief of Staff at LinkedIn and Greylock, both founded by Reid Hoffman. From this partners...
#49 - Altitud | Caterine Castillo from Neivor and simplifying payments for residential managers
Caterine Castillo is a lover of rowing, crossfit, extreme sports and meditation – it's all about balance! Originally from Bogotá, her commitment to personal and professional growth led her to complete programs in Harvard, Colum...
#48 - Getting through the 'supercritical stage': Renata Quintini, Renegade Partners
A renegade is someone who renounces conventions.It is through this innovation mindset that Renata Quintini runs Renegade Partners, an early-stage deep technology investment firm which she co-founded and is currently a Manag...
#47 - Altitud | Raphael Kappeler from Reworth and reinventing cashback reward programs
Raphael Kappeler grew up in Switzerland and has over 15 years of experience in finance and sales. Almost 10 of them he spent in Credit Suisse, working in investment banking in Europe and Asia. His childhood dream was to become a f...
#46 - An honest take on the VC game in Latin America: Hernan Kazah, Kaszek
Hernan Kazah's journey as an entrepreneur starts in 1999, in the early days of the internet in Latin America. Co-founder of Mercado Libre, he has witnessed firsthand, as a pioneer, the extraordinary evolution that the startup and ...
#45 - Altitud | Stephanie von Staa from Oya Care and women's empowerment through health
Stephanie von Staa Toledo, also known as Ste, was born in São Paulo, Brazil. She has a Wharton MBA and a Master’s Degree focused in Entrepreneurship and International Studies from University of Pennsylvania, and for the lon...
#44 - The bottom-up mindset: Christopher Schroeder, Next Billion Ventures
Few people understand overlooked markets and opportunities as well as Christopher Schroeder. Under normal conditions of temperature and pressure, you could find Chris having a chat with a founder in Brazil or Pakistan as easily as you'd ...
#43 - Altitud | Marcos Adler from Clubbi and empowering small merchants
Marcos Adler is a Carioca Brazilian that loves traveling, sailing and photography. With a background in Economics and an MBA from Wharton, he worked for almost five years at GE and then as a consultant at McKinsey.
#42 - Building Latitud in public: Brian Requarth and Gina Gotthilf
We believe that building in public can help founders build better. This means we’re open to sharing our ideas and strategy before they’re fully baked, even if it doesn’t make us look perfect. So this episode is a little diff...
#41 - Altitud | Santiago Aparicio from OnTop and global hiring made easy
Santiago Aparicio is a serial entrepreneur from Bogotá, Colombia. After studying Economics and getting a Masters in International Management, he went on to become the 7th employee at Rappi, where he was a Corporate Partnerships Di...
#40 - Finding the confidence to go global: César Salazar, Beyond and ex-500 Startups
César Salazar had years of building successful products for Latin America, but it was only after visiting Silicon Valley that he started considering that his ideas had the potential to go global. The realization that he lacked ambition w...