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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
#39 - Altitud | Oriana Fuentes from Emptor and the automation of trust
Oriana Fuentes has been based in New York for the past 12 years, where she went back to after living in Peru for 8 years. With a Bachelor's in Economics and Finance from Syracuse University, she proudly built a career in Wall Street. How...
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#38 - Unit Economics and prioritization: Mariana Donangelo, Kaszek
There are a ton of bright shiny lights on the way to building a startup, and it's tempting to burn through cash for the sake of rapid growth. So after getting a big capital injection, for example, it's normal for founders to get excited. But ho...
#37 - Altitud | Alejandro Gomez from Aptuno and pain-free residential rentals
Alejandro Gomez de Greiff is a born and raised Cachaco (from Bogota) who you may find running in the streets of Colombia while listening to business and history audiobooks and podcasts. He studied industrial engineering and quickly joine...
#36 - Sharpening your fundraising axe: Jason Yeh, Adamant Ventures
“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” This powerful quote by Abraham Lincoln is often shared by our guest.Jason Yeh has spent a lot of time both fundraising and analyzing fund...
#35 - Altitud | Yasaman Rajaee from Lernico and the future of education
Born in Iran, Yasaman Rajaee is a first-generation middle eastern immigrant woman. Besides having been a private tutor and teacher, she also has an impressive background as a student and researcher in Technology, Management, Computer Sci...
#34 - Dreaming big and achieving big: Henrique Dubugras, Brex
Henrique Dubugras taught himself how to code as a teenager. He met his co-founder, Pedro Franceschi, over an argument on Twitter, which ended up turning them into best friends. The Brazilian tech duo went on to join teams at different st...
#33 - Altitud | Gabriel Monteiro from Newtail and the digitalization of all grocery retailers
Gabriel Monteiro is a second-time founder. His first company, Shopgram, was a fashion and decor marketplace, sold in 2015 to B2W, a leading digital commerce company in Latin America. Gabriel went on to work at B2W for 5 years, so...
#32 - Corporate Venture and the Israeli startup ecosystem: Camila Folkmann, Mindset Ventures
It's hard to think about tech startups without thinking US and Israel, just like it's impossible for corporations to ignore digital transformation. In Brazil, there's one venture capital firm that is bundling all of that together, by investing ...
#31 - Altitud | Demian Bellumio from Nue Life and tech ketamin-assisted therapy
Demian Bellumio is the founder of Nue Life, a startup that is using technology and ketamin-assisted science-based treatments to make mental wellness scalable and cost-effective. Nue Life isn't based in Latin America, but it's situated in the ga...
#30 - Establishing, regulating and scaling culture: Loreanne Garcia, Kavak
For a long time, Loreanne Garcia and her brother, Carlos, had talked about building something together. Originally from Venezuela, they finally found the perfect opportunity in Mexico in 2016.That's when Lori, Carlos and their co-...
#29 - Altitud | Gaston Irigoyen from Pomelo and the $9M seed round
Pomelo is the fintech as a service (FAAS) platform for Latin America, founded by former Mastercard, Mercado Pago and Naranja X executives. The startup took some of its first steps during the Latitud Fellowship program, where Gaston Ir...
#28 - Why M&A should be part of your playbook: Cristiano Rocha, BizCapital
Cristiano Rocha is a seasoned engineer who started his career as a Master’s Student in Artificial Intelligence. Fresh out of university, he bootstraped his first company for about 8 years, back when venture capital in Brazil was almost u...
#27 - The future of investing in people: Sam Lessin, Fin and Slow Ventures
For the longest time, we've only financed personal and professional projects by acquiring debt. But what if, the same way investors bet on super early-stage business ideas, we could bet on high-potential people through an income share agreement...
#26 - Navigating the decade post-pandemic: Arnobio Morelix, Chief Data Scientist at Inc. Magazine
We do not always realize it, but we are living in two economies: digital and analog. In fact, depending on who you ask, 2020 was either the best year for business or the worst, and a lot has to do with how these two orders contrast and r...
#25 - Unlock value by focusing: Santiago Subotovsky, Emergence Capital
Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do. That’s true for companies, it’s true for products, and it's true for VCs too. Emergence Capital is known for a few superstar deals, like Crunchbase and Zoom, but...
#24 - Rolling funds and tech-powered venture capital: Avlok Kohli, AngelList Venture
We live in a software-powered world but many practices in the venture capital industry still lack the technology it invests in. We see innovation increasing at an accelerated pace, whereas many of the VC firms that finance innovation seem stuck...
#23 - Team management ordeals: Lucas Vargas, Nomad
With a Harvard MBA under his belt, after his role as co-CEO of Groupon, Lucas Vargas had a lot of options for his next step. But he didn't take a step: he took a leap of faith – and decided to join a small proptech startup in Brazil call...
#22 - From zero to one, over and over: Alex Torrenegra, Torre
Falling and getting back up is what makes the cycles of an entrepreneurial journey, but some people just enjoy to be constantly getting ideas off the ground, even if the previous ones are growing steady. Alex Torrenegra is an example of ...
#21 - It's an art, not a science: Jonathan Lewy, Investo and Grin
In the startup world, it's becoming more common for founders to share mistakes they made when they were starting out, but we rarely get to know about early mistakes investors make.Well, today, Jonathan Lewy is gonna bring the chal...
#20 - Embrace complexity: Shu Nyatta, Softbank
While a lot of VCs may ironically be discouraged by turmoil in emerging markets, Shu Nyatta feels comfortable in messy places. In his own words, because he grew up in one. A Nairobi native, he's lived in the US as a young con...
#19 - The trials and triumphs of a solo founder: Courtney McColgan, Runa
As the CMO of Cabify, Courtney McColgan led the company's market expansion from series A through series D, across 120 cities. She had roughly 350 people that reported to her. And every month, without exception, she received complaints fr...
#18 - Hidden opportunities and the early bet on Facebook: Kevin Efrusy, Accel
Kevin Efrusy is low-key. You won't find a lot of interviews with him, and that's by design. One of his reasons is that he believes entrepreneurs should be the ones taking all the credit, and that's a testament to what an outstanding inve...
#17 - Underestimated founders = outsized returns: Claire Diaz-Ortiz, Magma Partners
Stop fishing in the sludge. There's a lot more healthy fish where people don't go as often. And while some investors care too much about other investors' signals and might see particular markets as small ponds, Claire Diaz-Ortiz uses tha...
#16 - Make it or break it: Marcelo Abritta, Buser
When Marcelo Abritta pitched Buser to a VC for the first time, he didn't have a lot of leverage. His operation was quickly blocked by authorities and incumbents. He wasn't yet working full time on the business. And the cherry on t...