After the storm
Building a new future for Latin American tech That spring morning of 2008, our CFO confirmed to the management team the solid 2007...
- Feb 28, 2020
- 7 min
Faraway, So Close!
Your guide to investing in the young and rising Latin American tech Camino a Chalco con los volcanes, Jose Maria Velasco, Mexico city,...
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- Jan 2, 2020
- 4 min
Latin American tech in 2020 and beyond
I’m on stage. The Cemex Auditorium is packed. Countless faces of the Stanford GSB community are staring at me in silence. I look around...
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- Oct 8, 2019
- 5 min
The Next Wallet Wave
The rise of challenger banks in Mexico It’s the end of wave season in Beach Break Zicatela, one of the best surfing spots in the world....
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- Sep 17, 2019
- 6 min
Lost in translation
A brief history of the struggles of Brazilian startups in Mexico As my taxi made its way through São Paulo’s urban jungle, my mission,...
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- Jan 2, 2019
- 3 min
Latin American tech and VC in 2019
As with many other amateur writers, my writing is first a personal exercise. It’s my way to process what I see, organize my thoughts and...
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- Mar 12, 2018
- 5 min
Fintech for tomorrow
Empowering millennials at the base of the pyramid That sunny morning, the bus was surprisingly empty. Kary, 19, was heading to her law...
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- Jan 2, 2018
- 2 min
Latin American tech and VC in 2018
Following Fred Wilson and other investors posts predicting the short-term future, I’ll try myself at this exercise to start the year....
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- Jul 31, 2017
- 5 min
Expanding the promise of entrepreneurship in developing economies
Originally published in ET Tech, India The diversity and complexity of ordinary life in an average developing economy gives bold...
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- Aug 15, 2016
- 7 min
The rise and rise of Mexican fintech
Originally published in TechCrunch, July 2016. Nothing tells the story of how the Mexican tech ecosystem is steaming ahead in Latin...
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- Mar 13, 2016
- 5 min
Will Uber save ECommerce in Mexico?
Originally published in TechCrunch, March 2016. In May 1999, I joined one of the hottest startups in Latin America at the peak of the...
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- Feb 4, 2016
- 4 min
The year we worked the hardest.
Last year marked a change in the economic cycle for the world economies, and now all eyes are on the technology sector that is starting...
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- Sep 18, 2015
- 2 min
In Latam, Nail your Seed round or Fail your next series.
A lot is said about the lack of funds invested in the series A and B in Latam but little about the implications to your financing...
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- Jul 11, 2015
- 4 min
The next great startup will be a ‘unicornio’.
‘The minute a major Silicon Valley VC sets up a branch in Mexico, you will be out of business,’ a Mexican founder told me over dinner at...
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