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How to Build Your Own Data Center & Why Every Startup Should Do It Sep 5, 2026 · 1 mention

Uber President on Travis, China & Self-Driving | Why Autonomy Is Existential | How to Beat DoorDash Aug 17, 2026 · 3 mentions

Wix Founder: Will Base44 Win the Vibe-Coding Wars? | The Truth About the Economics of Vibe-Coding · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 13, 2026 · 4 mentions

Anthropic's Fable Banned by US Government | Wix & Adobe Hit All-Time Lows | Mistral Raising at $20BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 18, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 27:13 Everett Randle Or Argentina, or Brazil,
  • ▶ 42:00 Everett Randle They should, well, I, I, I don't know, I don't know if this is real or not, but I saw in the timeline that Rio, like the city of Rio, uh, in Brazil, apparently, um, you know, like post-trained or fine-tuned, um, a Chinese open-source…

SpaceX Launches Largest Ever IPO | OpenAI Files to Go Public | Uber Cuts 23% of HR · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 11, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 30:27 unnamed speaker Because the Brazilian banks were inefficient.

Anthropic Buys Compute From Elon & Commits $200BN to Google | Cerebras IPO | Ramp Raises at $40BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 14, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:01:26 unnamed speaker Stripe, you know, Revolut, Nubank in Brazil, because you're selling to consumers or SMBs and everyone does this.

The SaaS Apocalypse: Who Lives & Who Dies | Insight Partners Co-Founder, Jerry Murdock · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Feb 28, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 28:16 Jerry Murdock If you take the optimistic view, people living, you know, you know, those jobs that are going to be going away are not going to be jobs that gets you a vacation in Brazil anytime soon.

Klarna CEO: SaaS is Dead: Why Systems of Record Will Die in an Agentic World · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Feb 16, 2026 · 2 mentions

Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour on Raising $1BN, CNN and CNBC Deals & the Polymarket Feud · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Dec 8, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 26:17 Harry Stebbings You know, me and your team were talking before this about Luana and doing some PR in Brazil, and just getting the brand in Brazil. 2 times in the scene

Deel CEO, Alex Bouaziz on Raising $300M+ at a $17BN Valuation · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 20, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 42:52 Alex Bouaziz Uh, the only thing that can be defocusing is if they come and start telling you, you know, for Brazil, I need this specific thing for this country.

ElevenLabs CEO/Co-Founder, Mati Staniszewski:The Untold Story of Europe’s Fastest Growing AI Startup · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Sep 8, 2025 · 1 mention

20Growth: Meta CMO Alex Schultz on How All Founders Have to Change Their Marketing Playbook in a World of AI | Is AI Plateauing, What it Means if China Wins the AI Race and Why Zuck is a Generational Leader Sep 5, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 43:02 Alex Schultz And it's been a really successful thing, especially in places like Brazil and India, these big growth markets for them.
  • ▶ 57:58 Alex Schultz Like, we're in this place where Brazil and India are two of our very most important countries for revenue.

Databricks at $100BN, CoreWeave’s $11B Debt Bet & Nubank’s $2.5B Profit Shocker - Ep.19 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Aug 21, 2025 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 39:11 unnamed speaker And obviously as people, as you know, new bank is a dominant fintech, which is a next generation bank in Brazil, Columbia, Mexico. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 45:47 Jason Lemkin Is if, if new bank has 35% market share of Gen Z in Brazil and Revolut's all across Europe, but if almost 20% of everyone in the UK has a Revolut account, right?

20Product: Should We Kill the PM Role Entirely | How Does Product Design Change Most in a World of AI | How Do Monzo Build Product Today: What Works, What Does Not | Why Most Product Sucks and What Makes Truly Great Product Jul 27, 2025 · 2 mentions

OpenAI’s $6BN Jony Ive Deal & YC Is Both Chanel and Walmart, and Has Officially Won! · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 29, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 54:26 unnamed speaker It's just like, what's the guys in Brazil?

Airwallex CEO & Co-Founder, Jack Zhang: The Angel That Turned $1M into $1BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 26, 2025 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 20:16 unnamed speaker Essentially importing beans from Brazil, from, you know, Indonesia and, you know, importing packages from China and payment is a real issue. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 21:18 unnamed speaker So essentially networks will go to Barclays, Barclays go to Citi, Citi go to Itawu, and Itawu go to this smaller bank in Brazil. 2 times in the scene

Duolingo Co-Founder, Severin Hacker: How AI Impacts the Future of Work and Education · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 19, 2025 · 4 mentions

Dave CEO, Jason Wilk: The Best Performing Fund Would Only Back YC Founders on Their Second Time · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 21, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 43:00 Jason Wilk If you were to talk to David, the new bank CEO is going to tell you that his customer base in Brazil and Mexico is actually a middle to higher income consumer.

Benchmark GP, Victor Lazarte: The 3 Traits All the Best Founders Have · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 14, 2025 · 9 mentions

  • ▶ 1:42 Victor Lazarte So, I was never, like, I wasn't very, like, business sophisticated, and I mean, this was, like, 20 11 in Brazil, so, like, the venture capital scene there, like, wasn't as developed, right? 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 16:27 Victor Lazarte So the way I met Pedro is, so I was building my company in Brazil, and you know, as I said, we started, ah, we bootstrapped the business, like, we eventually grew it. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 24:06 Victor Lazarte Because, because people are just as smart, like, in Silicon Valley that they are in Europe or, like, in Brazil, but the big difference here is,
  • ▶ 40:18 Victor Lazarte So, so I grew up in Brazil, and Brazil is not a great place to, to grow up in, and then I moved to the U.S., and like, the Bay Air, it turns out, it's, it's a fantastic place to live, and the principal difference between 2 times in the scene

Peter Singlehurst: Lessons from Turning Down Stripe, Coinbase and Losing Money on Northvalt · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 19, 2025 · 1 mention

Oscar Pierre, Glovo CEO & Founder: Selling 30% for €100K |The McDonald's Deal That Saved Them |E1263 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Feb 26, 2025 · 7 mentions

Nik Storonsky, Revolut Founder: What Revolut Needs to Do to Hit $100BN Valuation | E1233 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Dec 2, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 17:50 Nik Storonsky Uh, no, what we're done, we, we applied for license in Brazil, for banking license in Brazil.

Antoine Le Nel, CGO @Revolut: How Revolut Launch and Grow Products & Why CAC is a BS Metric | E1216 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 18, 2024 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 26:40 Harry Stebbings I didn't know if like London versus Brazil could be different. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:01:25 Antoine Le Nel And now, now they are on Mexico, they are, they are getting some, some very nice growth, but what they've done in Brazil is truly impressive.

Bret Taylor: Why Pre-Training is for Morons & Companies Will Build Their Own Software | E1209 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 2, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 53:55 Bret Taylor I think WhatsApp is very well situated, um, and it's in particular, if you look at the usage of WhatsApp in places like Brazil and India, um, you know, it is, uh,

Jeetu Mahtani, Sales Leader @Hubspot: How and When to Go International and Crush It | E1207 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Sep 27, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 28:36 Jeetu Mahtani Uh, one is, interestingly, there are markets like, uh, Brazil, India, that are starting to get pretty attractive.

Nilan Peiris: What Growth Hacks Worked and What Did Not, from Wise CPO | E1182 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 26, 2024 · 3 mentions

Pedro Franceschi: What Brex Needs to do to be a Public Company | E1178 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 17, 2024 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 6:57 Pedro Franceschi So it's funny because, um, I grew up in Brazil and, you know, born and raised there. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 9:21 Pedro Franceschi When you're 14, you can only file them, I think, when you're 16 and above in Brazil. 2 times in the scene

Val Scholz: How Revolut Acquired Their First 10M Users: Tips, Tactics & Strategies | E1168 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 21, 2024 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 48:07 Val Scholz Because, I don't know, some weird authorization issue in, I don't know, Brazil.
  • ▶ 56:32 Val Scholz It's like they, they just figured out something in the Brazilian market that just, yeah, that just, I don't know, it's magic. 3 times in the scene

Mike Schroepfer: Former Meta CTO on "Why The Best Leaders are Like Music Conductors" | E1158 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 29, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 54:06 Harry Stebbings My question to you, and sorry for the hard questions, a dear friend of mine, Constantine Kissin, uh, says actually it's almost arrogant of us in the West to expect Brazil, India, China, the largest nations who will control the future of… 2 times in the scene

Thomas Plantenga & Alex Taussig: Vinted CEO's Ultimate Guide to Scaling Marketplaces | E1114 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Feb 12, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 56:09 Alex Taussig It's, it's, it's the same size and scale as some regions like Southeast Asia and Latin America, like Brazil is, you know, about two hundred twenty million people.

Dave Ripley: Are the SEC Overreaching with its Approach to Crypto? Should Gensler Step Down? | E1108 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 26, 2024 · 1 mention

Davis Smith: From Selling $6M of Pool Tables to Scaling Cotopaxi to $150M in Revenues | E1095 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Dec 15, 2023 · 19 mentions

  • ▶ 8:53 Harry Stebbings You know, baby store, Amazon style in Brazil. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 11:16 Davis Smith We moved down to Brazil. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 13:35 Davis Smith I decided to leave Brazil and it was very painful. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 14:31 Davis Smith I was basically in bed in Brazil and I'm, I'm so unhappy.
  • ▶ 19:28 Davis Smith So I went on LinkedIn, you know, I was in Brazil at the time.
  • ▶ 22:36 Davis Smith And, uh, we forget, and actually I can tell I'm, I'm in Brazil now, and we haven't talked about that yet, but I'm back in Brazil right now. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 27:34 Davis Smith I'm trying to figure out, and I'll just tell you, I haven't talked publicly about this, but earlier this year, about 12 months ago, I, I knew I was leaving the company, leaving my CEO role to go, uh, lead a mission for my church, uh, in… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 43:31 Davis Smith Of, I mean, of course, of course, uh, and I think in the short term, yes, uh, maybe, you know, one quick example, you know, when I was in Brazil, uh, I, uh, was living in Sao Paulo, twenty million people, very busy city. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 53:52 Davis Smith And then shortly thereafter, my church asked me if I'd be willing to go to Brazil.
  • ▶ 1:09:37 Davis Smith Uh, you know, we moved into, uh, an apartment here in Brazil and, uh, you know, I wake up

Suchit Dash: Scaling Dubsmash to 43M Users, Battling TikTok & Joining Reddit | E1060 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Sep 13, 2023 · 1 mention

David Velez: How AI Changes The Future of Finance | E1059 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Sep 11, 2023 · 28 mentions

  • ▶ 0:00 David Vélez We're getting to a point where almost 50% of the Brazilian adult population is a customer of Nubank.
  • ▶ 4:04 David Vélez Since I was looking at investing in opportunities in Brazil, I had to wake up at four in the morning to be in the office at four 30, do, ah, prospecting calls to Brazil firms. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 9:39 David Vélez So, uh, I was working, I had been working for Sequoia for about almost two years, setting up what would have been, would be the basis of Sequoia Brazil. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 14:58 David Vélez If you look at Ivo Vest by Brazil and Mexico, there's still incumbents that existed a hundred years ago.
  • ▶ 15:40 David Vélez I remember specifically, for example, 2000, when we're looking at this, 2007, eight, there were 45 different IPOs in just the Brazilian market. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 17:48 David Vélez We're getting to a point where almost 50% of the Brazilian adult population is a customer of Nubank. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 21:11 David Vélez That also meant, that has meant that in about 10 years, we've only done three countries, but when we go to these three countries, Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia, we go after big markets where we see a path to be 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 34:05 Harry Stebbings The thing that I find striking is actually something that you said to me beforehand when we were going back and forth, which is actually that the U.S. and Europe can learn a lot from India, from China, from Brazil, when it comes to kind of… 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 49:38 David Vélez They try to start a bank in Brazil without being Brazilian, without being a banker, without having ever, having ever worked for a credit card business, without having any network in Brazil, without knowing anything about regulatory in…
  • ▶ 53:42 David Vélez Interest rates in Brazil in the thousand were coming down very fast.
  • ▶ 56:03 David Vélez Building a bank from scratch in Brazil is the hardest thing I can do, and that's why I wanted to do it.
  • ▶ 1:01:11 Harry Stebbings I mean, if you want to give them struggle, you could just give them an incumbent Brazilian bank account.
  • ▶ 1:02:11 David Vélez In Brazil, you have about 27 days to pay merchants as a credit card issuer.
  • ▶ 1:05:01 David Vélez We being in Brazil and being in Latin America means we have to have a global footprint to get some of the best access and talent in the world.

Noam Shazeer: How We Spent $2M to Train a Single AI Model and Grew Character.ai to 20M Users | E1055 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Aug 31, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 16:46 Noam Shazeer You know, since he was a kid in Brazil, he's wanted to build, like, open domain chatbots.

Vinod Khosla: How AI Impacts Healthcare, Energy, Geo-Politics, Media and Climate Change | E1045 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Aug 7, 2023 · 1 mention

Marcelo Claure & Shu Nyatta: LATAM's New $500M Growth Fund; Investing Billions at SoftBank | E1042 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 31, 2023 · 22 mentions

  • ▶ 26:51 Marcelo Claure We understand Brazil, we understand Mexico, we understand Colombia, which are the three largest markets, and I am a huge believer in the macro story of Latin America, and I think the next 10 years are going to be the best 10 years of Latin… 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 28:51 Shu Nyatta Well, for sure there's Brazil and everything else. 8 times in the scene
  • ▶ 34:08 Shu Nyatta We were just in Brazil and we went to the middle of Brazil to a state called Goyas to a town called Goyania. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 37:57 Shu Nyatta Brazil has a very deep liquid capital market. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 42:49 Marcelo Claure Call it in Brazil, call it in the US, call it in London, call it everywhere. 2 times in the scene

Jean-Denis Greze: CTO of Plaid, the $18B Fintech Startup; How to Hire, Fire & Build Great UX | E1038 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 21, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 59:12 Jean-Denis Greze I mean, Sequoia, I think just, they just, they just, they've done it, you know, even like, you know, Brazil and stuff.

Gina Gotthilf: Lessons Scaling Duolingo from 3-200M Users; How to Master PR and Comms | E1028 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 21, 2023 · 12 mentions

  • ▶ 1:21 Gina Gotthilf All I wanted was to live in New York because my dad had lived in New York and I grew up with like New York pictures all over Brazil. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 6:52 Gina Gotthilf Just the memory of standing at a cash register in Sao Paulo trying to take all the money I had in my account in Brazil to pay our contractors because Tumblr couldn't figure out how to wire money from the US to Brazil. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 8:34 Gina Gotthilf They hired me as like this person to do Brazil and then Argentina, Mexico, and it was working.
  • ▶ 45:08 Gina Gotthilf Like if you're doing press in Brazil or Latin America, things are tend to be a little bit more lenient because people are much more like relationships driven.
  • ▶ 56:13 Harry Stebbings Fundraising announcement, expansion into Brazil, new product.

Jackie Reses: The Most Powerful Woman in Finance; Making $50BN for Yahoo on Alibaba | E996 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 31, 2023 · 1 mention

Jag Duggal: How We Scaled Nubank to 80M Users; Google's Brutal Hiring Practices | E995 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 29, 2023 · 14 mentions

  • ▶ 41:25 Jag Duggal Altered for the realities of, of how that, that payroll, uh, deposit works in Brazil and in Latin America, that's basically what we're getting towards is are they moving the bulk of their incoming money into new bank before they start, you…
  • ▶ 44:27 Jag Duggal We didn't say Brazil, we said Latin America. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 53:22 Jag Duggal This central bank sponsored mobile real-time payment system in Brazil called PIX, which has taken off perhaps other than India, arguably other than India is, is easily the most successful real-time mobile payment system in the world, um,… 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 57:19 Harry Stebbings Why have Brazilian banks responded? 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 59:51 Jag Duggal There are any number of things from the, from the, from the courage as a Colombian to enter the Brazilian market, not speaking Portuguese and, and, and, and have the audacity to think you'll take on some of the most profitable banks in the…

Kevin Systrom & Mike Krieger: The Founders of Instagram Reveal their New Project "Artifact" | E981 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Feb 22, 2023 · 1 mention

Martin Escobari: How to Invest During a Recession; Negotiation Tips; Developing Markets | 20VC #948 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Nov 11, 2022 · 13 mentions

Hugo Barra: How I Built Hardware for Android, Xiaomi, and Oculus | 20VC #947 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Nov 9, 2022 · 1 mention

Julio Vasconcellos: Scaling to $100M and 1,200 Employees and then Cratering | 20VC #928 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Sep 23, 2022 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 0:45 Julio Vasconcellos So the cliff notes on, on me is that I've spent the last 15 years or so in tech, um, mostly as a founder and operator, half that time in, you know, Silicon Valley, San Francisco Bay Area, and half the time down here, uh, in Brazil. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 2:23 Julio Vasconcellos Yeah, so I, I joined Facebook at, ah, the end of 2009, actually early 2010, that's when they, they shipped me down to Brazil, ah, to really focus on, ah, driving growth in Brazil. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 8:08 unnamed speaker You know, myself and my co-founder Alex, uh, working out of his living room, uh, in his apartment in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. 3 times in the scene
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