David Velez
15 statements across 3 episodes · 5 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Mar 26, 2021 by David Vélez · across every show →
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Mar 26, 2021
Mar 26, 2021
Velez: Founder and CEO roles require opposite, rarely overlapping skill sets
“The founder and CEO titles are generally so linked to each other, because if the founder is a horse and the CEO is a rhino, I think the Good founder and CEO is the unicorn. Is this horse that has been able to grow a horn and is this mythical creature? And I fi…”
Aug 16, 2021 bullish
Kaszek Backed Nubank's Seed Round When It Was Just a Deck
“In Nubank, we invested in the seed investment together with Sequoia, so it was a PowerPoint really early on, David Velez by himself, and that's when we joined, and then we participated out of the fund one in several rounds in the series A and the B and the C a…”
Sep 11, 2023
Sep 11, 2023
Sep 11, 2023 neutral
Sep 11, 2023 bullish
Velez: Emerging markets' fintech lead will accelerate over next 5-10 years
“And this is just the beginning. You'll see this trend just accelerating, I think, over the next five, 10 years when you start thinking about open banking, when you start thinking about the uses of crypto, when you start thinking about how, what AI could do in …”
Sep 11, 2023 positive
Velez: Nubank requires every employee to contribute opinions like a partner
“That was an insight that I took to Novak, and that was a foundational insight around the culture that we have today, where we want to treat everybody as a partner. Everybody needs to feel that they have a seat at the table, the youngest, The oldest, the person…”
Sep 11, 2023
Velez: Nubank should have hired experienced industry veterans sooner
“Ah, the importance of bringing people with more experience sooner. I was a bit dogmatic in trying to get people that did not have experience, that had the head with full of Questions. It is also important to have head with full, with some answers. So I would h…”
Sep 11, 2023 positive
Velez: Codifying values in a culture deck allowed Nubank to scale
“We were very deliberate around the type of people that we attracted, my co-founders, and how we picked them, and how we spent a lot of time trying to find them, the values that we set up, the way we organize ourselves, we put all our values in a culture deck. …”
Sep 11, 2023
Sep 11, 2023 neutral
Sep 11, 2023 positive
Velez: Complacency allowed emerging markets to surpass US and Europe in fintech
“I think that level of complacency in these industries, in these big countries, has stopped innovation and have permitted that a lot of these emerging markets, these technologies have leapfrog to a place today where, where Brazil, China, India are ahead of U.S.…”
Sep 11, 2023 neutral