MercadoLibre Faced 100 Regional Competitors at Dot-Com Peak
Nicolas Szekasy · 20VC LATAM: LATAM's Largest Fund, Kaszek Ventures on Scaling from $100M to $1BN, Why Capital is not a Source of Moat & Why LATAM is More Than Copycat Companies with Nicolas Szekasy, Co-Founder @ Kaszek Ventures · Aug 16, 2021 · at 3:30
Nicolas Szekasy, co-founder of Kaszek Ventures and former CFO of MercadoLibre, reflects on MercadoLibre's early market landscape during the dot-com boom.
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“We had the most extraordinary roller coaster journey with something like a hundred competitors in the region doing exactly what we were doing at the peak of the bubble in early 2000.”
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