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The Opportunity for Global Founders
- ▶ 1:58 Angela Strange And at that same time, uh, my brother had just joined Nubank down in Brazil.
- ▶ 6:18 Angela Strange And so then it changed versus Brazilian founders, Colombian founders wanting us to come down to Brazil and Colombia and connect. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:26 Angela Strange Um, but the interesting thing that's happening now, and we see this with, we're investors in a company, Taco, which does sort of payroll, HR workflows across Brazil, but their, their bigger mission is really cutting down bureaucracy in… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:02 Angela Strange So we have a insurance, uh, AI insurance company in Brazil. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:21 Gabriel Vasquez They might have a strong network if they're from Germany in Germany, but they probably have no knowledge about Brazil or Japan.
- ▶ 30:25 Gabriel Vasquez You know, the, the joke, a lot of people usually tell us that like, hey, Gabe, you're so well known in Sweden or in Germany or in Brazil.
Tokens Are the New Dollars | Stripe's Will Gaybrick & David George
- ▶ 38:29 Will Gaybrick PIX, another one in Brazil, which is grown. 2 times in the scene
How AI Will Transform Fintech In 2026
- ▶ 15:03 unnamed speaker I mean, new bank, you know, a hundred billion dollar, you know, you know, company, you know, in Brazil, you know, my good friend, Pierre Paulo, who runs Walla in Argentina, you know, Colombia, Mexico, um,
Keith Rabois: Israel, OpenAI, Opendoor, and DOGE
- ▶ 42:40 Alex Rampell It's like you find, and this is why, like, you know, new bank did this for Brazil. 2 times in the scene
The Top 100 Most Used AI Apps in 2025
- ▶ 9:53 Olivia Moore And if you look at their traffic, it's number one Brazil, number two US, and number three China. 3 times in the scene
Tech vs. Media: Balaji Srinivasan on the Battle Shaping Our Future
- ▶ 1:18:10 Balaji Srinivasan Like, a great example is The Atlantic published this crazy piece calling for invading Brazil because they saw a photo of the Brazilian fires, ok? 2 times in the scene
Biotech CEO on where we are in the fight to cure cancer
- ▶ 23:15 Jonathan Lim The fisherman nursed him back to health, and then every year the penguin swam thousands of miles from Patagonia to this fisherman's remote village in Ilha Grande, Brazil.
Big Ideas 2024: The Rise of the Developer as a Buyer in Financial Services with Angela Strange
- ▶ 12:58 Angela Strange Um, and you know, the US is a little bit different than some other countries like the UK and even Brazil that have an open banking mandate from the government that banks have to share their data.
Digital Humans and the Story Behind Lil Miquela
- ▶ 8:09 Trevor McFedries Pretty clear to me that there were these, like, underserved, really passionate audiences in Latin America, and so, you know, if you ever look at some, like, pop stars Instagram, 10% of the comments are, come to Brazil, come to Brazil, come…
2023 Big Ideas in Technology (Part 2)
- ▶ 22:42 Angela Strange So if I'm a company in the U S and I want to expand to Brazil, I have to learn an entirely new, different compliance regime.
Pay Without Borders with Alex Bouaziz (Deel), Darren Murph (GitLab), and Sondre Rasch (Safetywing)
- ▶ 54:00 Alex Bouaziz Uh, I think people are gonna start really looking at the country, but Brazil, for example, has been an amazing place for talent from an engineering standpoint and salaries have definitely gone up there. 2 times in the scene
The Network State with Balaji Srinivasan
- ▶ 1:45:03 Balaji Srinivasan Fighting, has been fighting, simultaneous conflicts with, ah, tech, with half its population, with Russia, with China, with, to a lesser extent, with Israel, India, Hungary, France, Brazil, with the Brexiteers in Britain, um, with Web…
The Open Source Movement in Fintech
- ▶ 9:48 Angela Strange I wouldn't invest in Google for Canada, Google for Brazil, Google for France, like, that's just Google, but I would invest in a bank for each of those reasons, regions, and it's because it's got different regulatory structure, different…
From Unknown Title to Viral Game: 12 Growth Lessons From Spellbreak
- ▶ 24:29 Seth Sivak There's, you know, a discord for Brazil and Germany and, and, um, France and Tokyo, Japan.
Taking Crypto Beyond Volatility: Stablecoins
- ▶ 10:43 Sep Kamvar Um, about 25 years ago, in a city in Brazil called Curitiba, they had a garbage problem.
a16z Podcast | Gaming Goes Mainstream
- ▶ 17:57 Bobby Kotick They owned Canal Plus, so a French TV network, didn't really have any applicability, and Universal Music, where we did license some music for Guitar Hero, but other than that we had no relationship, and a broadband company in Brazil.
a16z Podcast | How to Manage a PR Agency
- ▶ 27:21 Shannon Brayton It doesn't happen as seamlessly as it looks, so you really have to dig before you hire them on for a global job to make sure that these processes are really down.
a16z Podcast | When Journalism Goes Global
- ▶ 21:14 Jared Ryle So it's got to be something that affects people in, in Brazil, and France, in, in Germany, because we have to have kind of a unique story for each of our media partners to get them interested in the story.
a16z Podcast | The Internet of Taste, Streaming Content to Culture
- ▶ 18:50 Ted Sarandos And you show a show like the three percent, which is a show we make in Brazil, in all in Portuguese, with an all Brazilian cast, and the watching on Netflix in the U.S. would be equivalent to a pretty good sized cable hit. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Politics Over Pragmatism -- On China, Trump, and Smart Guns?
- ▶ 22:16 Sonal Chokshi To adapt to a place like Brazil or, you know, India or other places than U.S. companies even.
a16z Podcast | Trade, Commerce, Manufacturing, Immigration, & Cuba -- with Penny Pritzker
- ▶ 29:46 Penny Pritzker It's a pilot in the ASEAN countries, India, China, Japan, Brazil, and the EU.
a16z Podcast | Airspace as the Next Internet-Like Platform
- ▶ 14:36 Sonal Chokshi And I think the reason this causes U.S. lawmakers to freak out a little bit when they hear, you know, Amazon saying, hey, we might start doing, developing drones in Brazil or another country is 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | On Productivity, Immigration, Trump, and Media
- ▶ 21:25 Ezra Klein My mother is from the States, but my father is Brazilian, and I go back there a lot, as you do.
a16z Podcast | Mobile Falls Hard for Virtual Reality
- ▶ 18:18 Benedict Evans Is it going to be a Brazilian company that just has a quarter of the market in Brazil?
a16z Podcast | Open vs. Closed, Alpha Cities, and the Industries of the Future
a16z Podcast | The Fundamentals of Security and the Story of Tanium’s Growth
- ▶ 9:21 Orion Hindawi Like, I mean, you know, if you look at IBM, they used to sell into the customers we're selling to, now they're selling into banks in Brazil, because they're at the end of the adoption curve, and they continue monetizing that.
a16z Podcast | Holy Non Sequiturs, Batman: What Disruption Theory Is ... and Isn't
- ▶ 1:58 Sukhinder Singh Cassidy So Asia Pacific and Latin America, including our launch into China and Brazil and a number of other countries. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | How Innovation Ecosystems Grow Around the Globe
- ▶ 31:54 Annalise Saxenian So a lot of our social media transports very easily to India because of the English language there, where it's probably not as successful in Brazil.
a16z Podcast | Searching for Mobile's Third OS
- ▶ 12:51 Kurt McMaster No, I find that these products, in fact, are more advanced and evolved, and I like to think that things that come out of India and Indonesia and Brazil, etc., are going to impact mature markets in a significant way, right? 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Enough with the Old Stuff -- Time for New Questions in Mobile
- ▶ 5:13 Benedict Evans Um, Xiaomi is starting to think, but it's starting to go international, but only to middle income markets, only to India and Brazil and places like that, not to develop markets.
- ▶ 34:51 Benedict Evans If you're running a supermarket in, you know, in Brazil or in Indonesia or in whatever.
a16z Podcast | Where the Growth in Cloud and Enterprise Software Really Is (with Marc Benioff)
- ▶ 21:20 Marc Andreessen Um, you get to countries, potentially Russia or Brazil as two examples, where arguably there's another thing going on, which is they would like, they would like more and more to have a more Chinese
a16z Podcast | The End of Ownership
- ▶ 35:43 Joe Gebbia Where one out of every five people in Brazil was staying in someone's home on Airbnb. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Sports, Tech, and What We Can All Learn from the Latest Performance Science
- ▶ 20:07 Mark McClusky Um, soccer has its own version of it called, uh, futsal, which, um, is incredibly popular in Brazil, and Dan, uh,
a16z Podcast | Beyond Bitcoin -- The Blockchain
- ▶ 22:13 Matthew Green I, as a research matter, I have a colleague in, uh, Brazil, and I needed to get 10,000 dollars from a grant to a sub-grant to him in Brazil. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Three Kids, One App, One Love -- The Five-O Story
- ▶ 8:57 Ima and Asha Christian In terms of the future, we have gotten emails from people in the UK, uh, Brazil, and, um, 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Google I/O -- A Three-Hour Tour (in 30 minutes)
- ▶ 6:40 Benedict Evans If you look at emerging markets, then it's all Android, except for very rich people who have iPhones, but then there's very rich people in Brazil.
3 Common Myths People Have About Crypto
- ▶ 14:25 Catherine (Katie) Haun And what about, it's not just Zimbabwe, Greece, Brazil, but the most startling example that we are seeing right here, not very far from us, is Venezuela.
In Conversation: Netflix' Ted Sarandos and Marc Andreessen
- ▶ 15:24 Ted Sarandos And you show, show like the three percent, which is a show we make in Brazil, in all in Portuguese, with an all Brazilian cast, and the watching on Netflix in the U.S. would be equivalent to a pretty good sized cable hit. 2 times in the scene