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Escobari almost spent $500M on an Argentine acquisition before pulling out
“I almost spent five hundred million dollars on buying a company in Argentina, and then the day bids were due, I woke up and said, what the hell am I doing? And I'm glad we didn't buy it because the country went where it went.”
Escobari: XP market cap grew from $300M to $20B in Brazil
“The same theme in Brazil 12 years ago, a company you should meet, XP, Market cap went up from three hundred million to twenty billion, doing the exact same thing E-Trade did, except in a market where the banks were at 99% and now are at 82 and dropping.”