The J Curve with Olga Maslikhova Andre Florence and Gui Azevedo, founders at Brazil's largest health-tech startup Alice: The reality is a rollercoaster
Welcome to season three of the J Curve, a podcast about entrepreneurship in Latin America with me, Olga Maslikhova. My guests today are Andre Florence and Guilherme Azevedo, co-founders at Brazilian healthcare startup Alice backed by the likes of Softbank, ThornTree Capital Partners, Kaszek and Globo Ventures. Their latest Series C of $127m was the largest funding round raised by a healthtech in Latin America to date. Prior to co-founding Alice Andre was a CFO at Brazilian ride sharing company 99 and led it though the acquisition by Didi and Guilherme was a co-founder of a chain of healthcare clinics Dr. Consulta. We discuss their methodical approach to partnership, shifting focus from growth at all cost towards sustainability and lessons learned from that process and what it actually takes to drive a systematic change in such a complex market as healthcare.
In today's episode we discuss:
1. Alice partnership playbook: how to build a co-founder relationship that lasts
2. Growth at all cost is dead: five lessons learned from pivoting towards efficiency
3. The vicious cycle: why healthcare innovation is broken in Brazil and how tech natives can fix it?
4. Fasten your seatbelts how to build a resilient startup culture in a volatile market?
5. Breaking the mold: the biggest challenges of challenging the status quo
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Follow Olga on LinkedIn or Instagram 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).