100 Folgen

  1. Pedro Vallenilla (Cashea) on bringing consumer credit back to Venezuela, scaling to 10M customers in 3 years and becoming Kaspi

    Vom: 11.11.2025

  2. Bernardo Garcia (Félix) on doing things that don’t scale, the power of your first 20 customers and getting the flywheel going

    Vom: 16.9.2025

  3. Puren Ucar (fmr. Head of Talent @Earlybird) on why founders need to spend 40% of their time on hiring, the unequal impact of AI on startup roles and revenue / employee as a metric

    Vom: 18.8.2025

  4. Gaurav Biswas (Trukker) building the uber of trucks in MENA, scaling in a fragmented industry and growing on century old logistic routes from Turkey to Kaszakstan

    Vom: 29.7.2025

  5. [Operator Stories] Lucas Vargas (Nomad) on diversifying your assets, investing like the 1% and scaling to 100M+ in ARR

    Vom: 15.7.2025

  6. [Operator Stories] Pedro Arnt (dLocal) on preserving startup agility whilst becoming big company, the IPO is just the beginning and his new chapter as dLocal CEO

    Vom: 20.5.2025

  7. [Investor Journey] Camila Vieira (QED) on prioritizing moats over themes, the fund’s structure through multiple instruments and know where you land on Liquidity

    Vom: 29.4.2025

  8. [Investor Journey] Michael Lints (Golden Gate Ventures) launching the fund’s MENA presence, synergies between South East Asia and the GCC, liquidity and the role of secondaries

    Vom: 15.4.2025

  9. Mihai Faur (UiPath) on timing and IPO readiness, Act 2 for the company from UiPath to AiPath combining the power of AI and automation

    Vom: 1.4.2025

  10. [Investor Journey] Rafael Costa (Across Capital) driving alpha through portfolio concentration, inflection stage capital for LatAm & US

    Vom: 11.3.2025

  11. [Investor Journey] Milena Oliveira (Volpe Capital) on taking concentrated bets in Latin America, dynamics of early growth investing and lessons on portfolio construction

    Vom: 25.2.2025

  12. [Operator Stories] Alexis Pantazis (Hellas Direct) scaling an insurtech, profitable markets vs. TAM, vertical integration as a moat

    Vom: 11.2.2025

  13. [Investor Journey] Jimena Prado (Hi Ventures) on filtering through the AI noise, investing in lines not dots and transitioning from founder to funder

    Vom: 28.1.2025

  14. [Investor Journey] Izabel Gallera (Canary) on getting to conviction in early stage investing, pattern recognition and what will be the next Nubank of Brazil?

    Vom: 14.1.2025

  15. [Investor Journey] Christine Kenna (Ignia) on navigating ambiguity in investing, introducing Mexican pension funds to VC and driving DPI

    Vom: 10.12.2024

  16. [Operator Stories] Pavel Fedorov (Salmon) on building a challenger bank in the Philippines, the Tinkoff Playbook and why credit first

    Vom: 26.11.2024

  17. [Investor Journey] Esteban Sosnik (Reach Capital) on building a sector specific fund, challenges of digitizing education and new value unlock through AI

    Vom: 12.11.2024

  18. [Investor Journey] Alex Lazarow on Emerging Markets Fintech Quo Vadis - Data, Delivery, Distribution

    Vom: 29.10.2024

  19. [Operator Stories] Coen Jonker (TymeBank) on building a multi-country emerging markets digital bank from South Africa to the Philippines & maintaining CAC low

    Vom: 15.10.2024

  20. [Operator Stories] Mikhail Lomtadze (Kaspi) on building a $20Bn business out of Kazakhstan, the superapp strategy and secrets on execution

    Vom: 1.10.2024

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