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Martín Escobari

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Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Martín Escobari - Inside General Atlantic - [Invest Like the Best, EP.449]

And I said, if we're not willing to buy a dominant platform at six times EBITDA,

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Martín Escobari - Inside General Atlantic - [Invest Like the Best, EP.449]

We should shut down the world.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Martín Escobari - Inside General Atlantic - [Invest Like the Best, EP.449]

It means the world is ending and we should, the world is not ending.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Martín Escobari - Inside General Atlantic - [Invest Like the Best, EP.449]

A dominant platform will always be bored more than six times.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Martín Escobari - Inside General Atlantic - [Invest Like the Best, EP.449]

And there's been, you know, every three or four years, there's one such unique distortion that you have to move very quickly.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Martín Escobari - Inside General Atlantic - [Invest Like the Best, EP.449]

That's perhaps one of the learnings of being an entrepreneur in the dot com.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Martín Escobari - Inside General Atlantic - [Invest Like the Best, EP.449]

Like I'm a rare investor that has been an operator.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Martín Escobari - Inside General Atlantic - [Invest Like the Best, EP.449]

It's not just I had been an operator.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Martín Escobari - Inside General Atlantic - [Invest Like the Best, EP.449]

What the dot-com taught me, and I just realized this recently, you can do seven years of work in one year.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Martín Escobari - Inside General Atlantic - [Invest Like the Best, EP.449]

Say more about what you mean.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Martín Escobari - Inside General Atlantic - [Invest Like the Best, EP.449]

Elon Musk says, you know, do your 10-year plan and try to get it done in one year.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Martín Escobari - Inside General Atlantic - [Invest Like the Best, EP.449]

Yeah.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Martín Escobari - Inside General Atlantic - [Invest Like the Best, EP.449]

You're like, he's crazy.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Martín Escobari - Inside General Atlantic - [Invest Like the Best, EP.449]

Look what he's built.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Martín Escobari - Inside General Atlantic - [Invest Like the Best, EP.449]

In the dot-com, it felt like the world was on steroids.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Martín Escobari - Inside General Atlantic - [Invest Like the Best, EP.449]

In Submarino, not only have we raised $80 million within the first three months, within one year, I was in charge of international.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Martín Escobari - Inside General Atlantic - [Invest Like the Best, EP.449]

We opened Submarino in six countries.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Martín Escobari - Inside General Atlantic - [Invest Like the Best, EP.449]

Wow.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Martín Escobari - Inside General Atlantic - [Invest Like the Best, EP.449]

With warehouses and customers and registrations and teams, it was done in one year.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Martín Escobari - Inside General Atlantic - [Invest Like the Best, EP.449]

If you had told me how long it would take a normal person to do that, I would say three to four years, going fast.