LatAm Founders Handled Dot-Com Crash Better Than US Counterparts
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 5:48
Nicolas Szekasy, Co-Founder of Kaszek Ventures and former MercadoLibre CFO, discusses how growing up amidst economic volatility in Latin America prepared regional founders for major macroeconomic crises.
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“I'm sure that we were better suited than most of the founders from more developed countries, that they were not aware that something like this could happen.”
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