Bogotá, every mention
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20VC: Rappi Founder Simón Borrero on Growth vs Profitability, Capital Efficiency, Raising $1.7Bn as a LATAM Company and Why Uber Eats Did More To Help Than To Hurt Rappi
- ▶ 3:25 Simon Borrero We had no users, so we had to go to the streets, and we actually started giving away donuts for downloads, and that's how we started to gain traction in a very small neighborhood in Bogota, and we started not only acquiring users, but of…
- ▶ 4:48 Simon Borrero You need to make a specific user fall in love with your service, so that specific user in a specific neighborhood in Bogota or in Sao Paulo, she or he gives a shit if you have a 100,000 restaurants in other cities.
- ▶ 13:14 Simon Borrero This is like, oh, Bogota is the same as Zimbabwe.
20VC: How To Think Through Portfolio Construction and The Business Model of VC, Why You Cannot Grow Ownership In Your Best Companies Over Time & How To Make The Space for Serendipity To Strike in VC with Adam D'Augelli, Partner @ True Ventures
- ▶ 26:34 Adam D'Augelli You know, with Steve and Splice, we initially met at a conference in Bogota, Colombia, hosted by a mutual friend, and I happened to run into him at New York City for breakfast.
20VC: Phil Libin on Why The Concept of A Silicon Valley Style Startup Is Made To Benefit VCs, Why The Very Structure of Companies Is Outdated and Inefficient & What It Means To Build The Netflix of Product
- ▶ 28:12 Phil Libin So in five years, the two smartest engineering students graduating from a university in Bogota who have like a burning vision for a product that they want to make, their plan A is we got to get this made in Old Turtles. 2 times in the scene