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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
#14 - Building and scaling tech companies: Yuri Danilchenko, co-founder of Latitud
Yuri Danilchenko grew up in Russia during one of the most defining moments in history. He's had a knack for tech and entrepreneurship since before he noticed it, having sold cell phones for pocket money when he was only 13, and fixing hi...
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#13 - Self-care as the leader of a fast-growing company: Peter Fernandez, former CEO of 99
It’s here: the last episode of 2020. We started this year by interviewing Paulo Veras, the co-founder of 99, the first Brazilian unicorn. Now, we end the season on the highest of notes with the guy that was managing the company when it w...
#12 - Where and when founders should be hands-on: Luciana Caletti, LoveMondays / Glassdoor
In the early days of Love Mondays, co-founder Luciana Caletti was encouraged by her investors to talk to every player in the industry, including competitors. Not only did that accelerate their learning as a startup, but it also al...
#11 - Stage-agnostic investment decisions: Fabricio Pettená, Global Founders Capital
Fabricio Pettená is a partner at Global Founders Capital, a stage-agnostic lifecycle global venture capital firm. If you’re wondering what that means, this is the episode where he explains it! We also talk about:&nbs...
#10 - Mastering growth and taking Duolingo to 200M users: Gina Gotthilf, co-founder of Latitud
Gina Gotthilf was the VP of Growth at Duolingo, the most downloaded education app in the world, leading the team that built its user base from 3 to 200 million. She also led Tumblr's growth in Latin America and participated...
#9 - Expansion and venture capital in Latin America: Antoine Colaço, Valor Capital Group
A few years after getting his degree in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University, and fresh out of his MBA at Harvard Business School, Antoine Colaço wanted to go into the VC world as an investor. But he’d always he...
#8 - Finding the right DNA to attract self-selecting talent: Eric Santos, Resultados Digitais
A company’s DNA is what makes it stand out. It guides everyone’s behaviors and determines the quality of the people you have by your side, from the initial hires to the hypergrowth stage. It can be the difference between a team that is indiffer...
#7 - Both sides of the table: Julio Vasconcellos, Atlantico
No matter the game, understanding the other player always helps you make better moves. This logic applies to the fundraising game too. Julio Vasconcellos is a great example of this, being a very prolific entrepreneur and inve...
#6 - The emotional rollercoaster of being a founder: Oskar Hjertonsson, Cornershop
Startups are the wildest roller coasters. You can have your best day and your worst day oftentimes in the same day. You really need to learn how to deal with the ups and downs and accept that there are things that you simply cannot control....
#5 - Changing the tires while driving: Sergio Furio, Creditas
Starting a business is a game of persistence. As our guest Sergio Furio says in this episode, “we build businesses to thrive over 10-20 years, but we don’t know what’s happening tomorrow.”Sergio was born in Spain and moved to Braz...
#4 - Lessons on product: Thomas Floracks, co-founder of Viva Real and CPO at LaHaus
Thomas Floracks and Brian Requarth have been partners for 16 years -- Germany and USA joined forces in Colombia to ultimately build a successful proptech scale-up in Brazil: Viva Real. They've been through thick and t...
#3 - The complexity of startup communities: Brad Feld, Techstars
Support, knowledge-sharing and collaboration go a long way — they’re just as important as other resources. Building an environment with these characteristics helps us grow individually, and it continues to do so as we give back and create value...
#2 - How to structure your startup for international investments: Dan Green, Gunderson Dettmer
When we’re starting up, we don’t always pay much attention to legal structures or to tax legislation. Entrepreneurs tend to go with the fastest, easiest, or cheapest way to get the business off the ground. Brian, too, made this mist...
#1 - Venture capital today and lessons from Mercado Libre: Nicolas Szekasy, Kaszek Ventures
What does this downturn mean to startups who are currently looking to fundraise? Nicolas Szekasy shared some of the challenges he faced as CFO do Mercado Livre during the internet bubble in 2001 and the 2008 recession. Now...