April 18: For our first in person episode ever released I am thrilled to welcome Jose Renato Hopf, the serial entrepreneur and the founder of GetNet, which became one of the largest companies in Latin American was acquired by Santander in 2014 for just south of $500M. Jose Renato is also a founder of venture builder 4ALL and co-founder and president at South Summit Brazil, the leading tech summit in the South of Brazil that dragged over 22000 attendees, 900 speakers and over 3000 thousand startups just this year.
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In today's episode we will discuss:
1. What are Jose Renato's key learnings from building, scaling and selling GetNet to Santander?
2. What is the premise of a high-performing private-government partnership?
3. What is the operational secret behind Uber, Airbnb and Netflix?
4. What are the main downsides of a Silicon Valley mindset?
5. What are the big industries in Brazil that are ready to be disrupted?
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Olga is an entrepreneur, venture capital investor, mentor at Techstars and founder at The J Curve, Latin America's leading English speaking podcast about tech builders. She's been investing in the USA, SEA and Latin America for over 13 years. Companies she backed include tech unicorn ClassPass (acquired by Mindbody) and Vitalk (acquired by Gympass).
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