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“So back then, I used to own Brightstar. And I had an idea of how could Apple actually double their sales. And after many emails to Steve Jobs, which he wrote me back, no interest. One day he got tired of everybody pinging him that he had to meet me. So he agre…”

“And at the end, I believe that the new firms are going to be the ones that have the ability To help entrepreneurs alter the course of their business. I think the days of just dumb capital with access are long gone. Those were the days in which capital was free…”

“Latin America is, to me, the land of opportunity, and I think Latin America is the only place where, which is great, because there are more opportunities than capital available. Everywhere else, There's more capital than opportunities available, which drives c…”

“I am a huge believer in the macro story of Latin America, and I think the next 10 years are going to be the best 10 years of Latin America for two very, very simple reasons.”

“If you look at the returns of GA, people often don't know, but if you truly study GA, the great returns have come from Latin America.”

“We have produced, I think, a total of 22 unicorns last year, where before that, there were like one, so it's been amazing what I'm seeing in Latin America.”

“My expectation is that we take at least eight of our companies public between this year and next year of the Latin American fund.”

“We can say whatever we want, but it is hard as hell for black people to raise money if they didn't go to an Ivy League school.”

“Every single founder has been in the verge of bankruptcy. Very few have not been.”

“And Latin America, if you add the GDP of Latin America, we happen to be two X India with one quarter of these people or one third of the people.”

“We basically reduced eleven billion dollars of cost, and we figured that we could do a lot more with a lot less people, a lot less just bureaucracy.”

“I was looking at the market share of unicorns that we have in Latin America. It's over 84% of companies”

“Well, you know, if we can continue to do this, my goal would be to invest five billion dollars a year in the foreseeable future.”

“Brazil will become the largest food exporter in the world, so all that means is this com, these countries are going to be, I would call them economically sound.”

“It is expected that both the Brazilian and the Mexican economy Will be among the top 10 economists of the world, so it's nice.”

“Latin America had the lowest percentage of venture investing as the percentage of GDP of whatever than any other region in the world, I think as close to Africa.”

“There was a meeting in which we wrote a fifty million dollar check, and there was a meeting that we wrote an eight billion dollar check. And that could happen the same day.”

“We only invest our own capital. We don't have our own LPs. We don't have specific cycles.”

“I mean, half the population is unbanked, right?”

“Few people know that between Bolivia, Argentina, and Chile, that's 60% of the world's lithium. I mean, that's, Bolivia alone is one-third of the world's lithium.”

“He offered to buy Brightstar with only one condition, and that condition was that I would become the CEO of Sprint.”

“Sprint was losing five billion dollars a year.”

“Today we have 26 investment teams all over the world that are meeting hundreds of entrepreneurs every single week”

“And in one of my board interviews, I met Sandeep. I was interviewing for a board member. And I tell you, 30 minutes into the interview, I said, let me stop. I said, you should not be a board member. You should be the CEO of WeWork.”