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14 statements about Colombia, every show

Pat Walls: cloning popular apps for international markets is a massive opportunity
“There's so much opportunity to build popular apps, build the same exact app in another country because the app store is huge in other countries.”
Pat Walls Apr 5, 2026 ▶ 20:49 How This App Makes $35K/Month
TOP FOUNDERS Disclosure
Kukun CEO: 85% of company headcount is in India and Colombia
“I would say 85% of the company is between India and Colombia.”
Raph Howery Jan 21, 2026 ▶ 14:22 Bootstrapping to $5M ARR: How Kukun Scales SaaS for Banks and Fintechs
MIXERGY Assertion Not checkable as stated
Shim: 1% to 2% of Colombia's entire population uses Read.ai daily
“We have about one to two percent of Columbia's population using read on a daily basis.”
David Shim Sep 15, 2025 ▶ 41:00 #2280 Read.ai is adding 50k users per day
20VC Assertion Supported
Östberg: Delivery Hero was disrupted by Rappi in Colombia
“We didn't do that fast enough in, in Colombia, as a good example, and we get disrupted by Rappi. So then the cohorts deteriorated big time.”
Niklas Östberg Mar 12, 2025 ▶ 39:06 Niklas Östberg, Founder @ Delivery Hero: Competing with Uber and Doordash in a Capital Arms Race · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
WE LIVE TO BUILD Assertion Not checkable as stated
Weisbrot: Living in Costa Rica costs 3-4x more than Colombia.
“Costa Rica is stupid expensive. It's like three or four times more expensive than Columbia.”
Sean Weisbrot Jun 14, 2024 ▶ 24:04 137 Countries Taught Him Why Users Do What You Want
Nubank is globally one of the most attractive digital banks
“Nubank, for example, which is a business and a management team that we admire, building one of the most attractive digital banks, not just in Brazil, where it's a leader, but really when you're stack ranking it up globally, and they have a very disciplined fra…”
Brian Christensen Jan 11, 2024 ▶ 53:22 Brian Christiansen – High-Conviction Growth Investing at Sands Capital (EP.361)
20VC Insight
Velez: Single-country startups in Chile or Colombia face severe exit constraints
“I think you run a little bit into more of the liquidity constraints where you see the businesses just building for Chile or building just for Colombia. Those tend to have much much harder exit opportunity. But when you really get Brazil and Mexico, you'll find…”
David Vélez Sep 11, 2023 ▶ 16:32 David Velez: How AI Changes The Future of Finance | E1059 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Prediction Open · timeframe Sep 2028
Velez: Nubank sees path to become largest bank in Brazil, Mexico, Colombia
“When we go to these three countries, Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia, we go after big markets where we see a path to be Probably the largest financial institution in each one of these countries eventually, because we are the primary bank account and we become the…”
David Vélez Sep 11, 2023 ▶ 21:11 David Velez: How AI Changes The Future of Finance | E1059 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Assertion Supported
Duggal: Brazil has an exceptionally favorable credit card working capital cycle
“The working capital cycle for credit cards in Brazil is very favorable for a credit card company for what we're trying to do, which is Almost, almost compared to anywhere else in the world, Mexico and Colombia are much more typical.”
Jag Duggal Mar 29, 2023 ▶ 46:18 Jag Duggal: How We Scaled Nubank to 80M Users; Google's Brutal Hiring Practices | E995 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Gave: Current Latin American leftists will not repeat Chávez's mistakes
“Today's leftists in America are not the leftists from a generation ago. Again, you learn from your father's mistakes. In Latin America, you talk to guys in Chile and in Colombia and in Mexico, they've learned from Chavez. They've learned from Argentina. They d…”
Louis-Vincent Gave Oct 10, 2022 ▶ 18:48 Louis-Vincent Gave – The Case for Emerging Markets (Capital Allocators, EP.275)
ALL-IN Assertion Supported
Hershenson: Former Rappi employees have founded over 100 new startups
“There's been a hundred plus companies created by Rappi employees. It's crazy. Even, almost 50 in Colombia.”
Mar Hershenson May 30, 2022 ▶ 8:42 #AIS: Pear VC’s Mar Hershenson on making successful founders
AMERICAN OPTIMIST Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lonsdale: Former Colombian President Duque caught protesters using Russian tech
“And the president of Colombia told us he's caught those same Chilean protesters with Russian technology, trying to do these things in Colombia as well.”
Joe Lonsdale Feb 3, 2022 ▶ 6:59 Peng Shuai, Beijing Olympics & Holding China Accountable with Former UN Ambassador Kelly Craft · Joe Lonsdale
KNOWLEDGE PROJECT Assertion Supported
Cialdini: McDonald's Families Bought 25% More Food When Given Balloons First
“The other half, each kid got the balloon as they entered. Those families bought 25% more food because they had been given something first.”
Robert Cialdini Oct 19, 2021 ▶ 7:18 #122 Robert Cialdini - The Principles of Persuasion
20VC Assertion Partly supported
Borrero: 70% of Colombians earn under two minimum wages per hour
“In countries like Colombia, 70% of the population, seven zero percent, earn less than two minimum wages per hour”
Simón Borrero Mar 18, 2021 ▶ 11:38 20VC: Rappi Founder Simón Borrero on Growth vs Profitability, Capital Efficiency, Raising $1.7Bn as a LATAM Company and Why Uber Eats Did More To Help Than To Hurt Rappi

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