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The Opportunity for Global Founders Aug 20, 2026 · 10 mentions

  • ▶ 2:29 Angela Strange And that is what initially got me interested in looking at Latin America. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 5:13 Angela Strange In many other markets, including Latin America, you just can't do that.
  • ▶ 8:02 Gabriel Vasquez We tried to focus on the niche, so it was very focused on only Latin Americans at that point in time. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 20:28 Gabriel Vasquez They started working with, with the largest conglomerate of all, of all Latin America, which is like the owned by the Slim family.
  • ▶ 27:11 Elena Burger Uh, at the, at the beginning of the conversation, Gabriel, you mentioned that, you know, your first market map of, of Latin American unicorns was, was 20 companies or something?

Kavak's Playbook for Rebuilding a Company Around AI Aug 9, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 3:03 Ale Massa Basically, all the infrastructure for this to work didn't exist in, in LATAM, so we had to build everything vertically so we could serve our customers the right way.
  • ▶ 11:12 Ale Massa It's extremely hard to sell a car in, in Latin America.

Building a Company in Stealth | Travis Kalanick with a16z Jul 22, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 34:11 Travis Kalanick So people know it as cloud kitchens in the U.S., but it's Casinos Aqueltas in Latin America.

Why Physical AI Is the Next Frontier | The a16z Show Jul 21, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 14:53 Qasar Younis So we've figured out over the years, whether it's the Middle East, whether it's, uh, LATAM, how to get into these countries,

Ben Horowitz on the Global Race for Tech, Power, and Influence Jul 3, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 21:48 Anne Neuberger And then certainly, when we think about Latin America, when we think about 2 times in the scene

Ben Horowitz on American Dynamism and the Future of AI | The a16z Show May 8, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 14:10 David Ulevitch You know, how do you think about, how can we export, uh, our capabilities, our advantages, our culture, uh, to these other countries, especially ones that we may have supply chain dependencies on and who are our allies, especially ones…

Why Balaji Srinivasan Thinks the SaaS Apocalypse Is Overhyped | The a16z Show Apr 7, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 43:23 Balaji Srinivasan There's many founders who are from countries that were, quote, poor countries or what have you, from India, from Latin America and so on.

The Lawyerly Society vs. The Engineering State: Who Owns the Future? Oct 6, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 54:57 Dan Wang Um, they, the way that they conduct a lot of diplomacy in Africa and Southeast Asia, as well as Latin America, is just to go up to these countries. 2 times in the scene

Dylan Patel on the AI Chip Race - NVIDIA, Intel & the US Government vs. China Sep 22, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 20:47 Dylan Patel Whether it be, uh, the Middle East or Southeast Asia or South Asia or Europe or LATAM, right?

The U.S. Can’t Build AI Without These Materials Jul 23, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 53:52 Ryan McEntush I mean, I would love to think we can mine and refine everything in the United States, but, but obviously there, there's a lot, Australia, Canada, Latin America, curious sort of what Africa, under, underwater, uh, seafloor, like what, what…

Growth vs Efficiency: Can You Have Both? Jul 21, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 48:20 Gina Gotthelf So one way to game your question, which is something that growth teams do all the time, is I'm just going to go to a country where buying a user or buying a listener is super cheap, and I'm going to go and like, you know, do some sort of…

Polarizing Talent: Navigating 2023's Landscape Jul 7, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 23:21 Hung Lee Turned out he was from Latin America, I think Venezuela or something.

Global Investing in Tech: Pattern Recognition, Founder Traits, Momentum | Field Notes by Connie Chan Apr 19, 2023 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 2:06 Chris Schroeder So I spent a lot of time and have invested in, of course, the Middle East, uh, Southeast Asia, Latin America, a little bit in Africa.
  • ▶ 8:53 Chris Schroeder Because they were beginning to travel around as far as Latin America, but certainly in Southeast Asia.
  • ▶ 13:13 Chris Schroeder So MercadoLibre, which is the e-commerce juggernaut of Latin America, I think is a great example of this because there are lots of things that they could have gone down with the number of people they reached. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 15:12 Chris Schroeder I see a lot of people even now coming from new bank in Latin America.
  • ▶ 18:36 Chris Schroeder And the answer, which you folks have done very well in Latin America and elsewhere, is you find partners on the ground that you can trust who live these things day in and day out.

Digital Humans and the Story Behind Lil Miquela Mar 31, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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…

Pay Without Borders with Alex Bouaziz (Deel), Darren Murph (GitLab), and Sondre Rasch (Safetywing) Dec 20, 2022 · 1 mention

The Open Source Movement in Fintech Oct 14, 2021 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 15:56 Angela Strange Plaid in the U.S., Belvo and Latam, Trulair in Europe, and, and many others.
  • ▶ 20:37 Angela Strange If you look at banks in Latin America, they actually have the highest return on equities in the entire world.

a16z Podcast | For Your Ears Only Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 11:21 Matt Spence There was the fall of the president of Egypt, and at the same time, the president was taking a trip to Latin America.

a16z Podcast | Mobility and the Global Refugee Crisis Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:18 Tony Blinken We have refugees, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, a dozen countries in Africa, and of course, Latin America as well.

a16z Podcast | Trade, Commerce, Manufacturing, Immigration, & Cuba -- with Penny Pritzker Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 20:12 Penny Pritzker Um, and the third benefit to think about is our whole relationship with Latin America has changed for the better because of recognizing Cuba.

a16z Podcast | Connectivity and the Internet as Supply Chain Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 11:08 Parag Khanna If you're a Spanish telecom company, you are aiming to boost your market in Latin America.

a16z Podcast | Holy Non Sequiturs, Batman: What Disruption Theory Is ... and Isn't Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

a16z Podcast | Tech's Biggest Ideas and How They Take Hold -- With Marc Andreessen and Dan Siroker Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 17:51 Marc Andreessen Um, and all throughout, you know, Africa and Southeast Asia and Latin America and all these places, there's this amazing adoption

a16z Podcast | When Bio Meets Computer Science Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 39:35 Vijay Pande Chagas disease is a top five killer in Latin America, but due to global warming and other, and immigration and other things, these insects are moving north.

a16z Podcast | Is Entrepreneurship a Universal Language? Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 8:52 Chris Schroeder Uh, Alibaba in China, Baidu in China, Yemisepeki, which is the seamless of Turkey, MercadoLibre, which is the Amazon of Latin America.

a16z Podcast | Layering Tech and Culture in Iran Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 10:01 Chris Schroeder So, Nazani, one of the things that I hear when I come back to America, and this is true, by the way, from emerging markets from Southeast Asia to Latin America to the

Marketplaces Jul 15, 2017 · 1 mention

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