Julio Bravo
speaker
158 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
Julio Bravo’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsNo recordings in the last 12 months.Older appearances are listed below; set an alert to hear about the next one.
Appearances
So when you see guys like that investing in ag, who are us to not invest in ag, right? So you see like the three most rich persons in the world investing in agriculture because their businesses stopped during pandemic. Ag didn't stop, right? Because the food needs to be produced anyways. And three times a day, everyone in the world needs to eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Someone will provide that food for that guy.
All right. Thanks for having me. It's a lot of fun. It's my first interview in English, I guess.
We're not sharing Portuguese. All right. Yeah, let's try.
Let's have AI figure this out. There we go. Yeah. So, yeah. So, I am from a state called Rio Grande do Sul. It's really deep south of Brazil, right on the border with Argentina and Paraguay. And I grew up there. Back in the days, I got a scholarship to come up here. I was a foreign exchange student at the Quad Cities area. And I went to Davenport Central High School.
And through the World Food Prize, they invited kids to the Youth Program Institute to come up here and present paper about ag. And back in the days, I created a paper and came up here to present. present to, you know, a whole bunch of people. And then I stayed here for six months doing an exchange program. Then I went back to Brazil. So I went back to Brazil. I started working for John Deere.
And working for John Deere, like your heads go blue, right? It's just like a lot of things change because it's an international company in a really small town where I was from. Horizontina is called the town. Fun fact about the city is Gisele Bündchen, former...
No, I didn't. He dumped her.
Oh, yeah, of course. Way hotter, yeah. So, yeah, she's, so Giselle is Tom Brady's former wife, right? Yeah. So I was... Tom Brady who? Yeah, Tom Brady who, right?
So you see my state right at the south. So state of Rio Grande do Sul. I was born in North Park, close to Misiones province. Yeah. Right up there. And then I moved to Curitiba. You see Curitiba in the state of Paraná? Right up there by the ocean. Curitiba, yeah. So, yeah, that's my city right now. Curitiba. Yeah, that's where I found my company. I got married, got kids there.
It's the capital of the state.
No, Uruguay is a country. Country, yeah. And then Argentina and Paraguay. Okay. Paraguay is another country on the border, which is a very big ag country as well. Uruguay is a very big ag country as well. And then state of Paraná, Santa Catarina, and Sao Paulo are big. And state of Mato Grosso do Sul, Mato Grosso is up there. So it's really all those states are ag states somehow.
So zoom in there, Tanner.
Curitiba. Yeah. They say Curitiba in English. It's Curitiba in Portuguese. Curitiba. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So it's a 3 million inhabitant city. It's a big city. Holy smokes.
Yeah. It's actually half size of New York, I think. One third size of New York. But it's a big city. And it's a very ag state. What is that? It's never heard. It's probably Foucault.
Yeah. You want to see another thing? Just open another. There's a boat company in Brazil called F-O-C-K-A-R. Fokker. Fokker. The name of my boat is Fokker.
The brand.
Yeah.
Yeah, I was right in downtown Curitiba. My wife has two dental offices there. I founded my company, Agro Bravo, downtown Curitiba. It's still there. And Agro Bravo was found there. And while I traveled all over Brazil in the ag states, you know, invited people to come to the state.
So that was kind of fast forward to 2013 when I found Agro Bravo and I started to drive from Curitiba to all the ag states of Brazil and inviting John Deere dealers to make groups to come to the states and visit John Deere. So that's kind of how I started back in 2013.
Showing 1–20 of 158 · page 1 of 8
Next →