Martín Escobari
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884 appearances
1 recordings
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first heard Nov 2025
last heard 25 Nov
Martín Escobari’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I was set out by these three guys to go and find great entrepreneurial companies and invest $500 million in 20 companies.
You got 18 months, go.
In month three- That was your mission.
That was the specific- That was my mission.
That was mission number one out of business school.
Now that I was speaking Portuguese, I could go.
And by month three-
I remember talking to a buddy of mine, because we were benchmarking different models, and a buddy of mine had taken a job in the U.S., a company that went public in the dot-com era, clearly a bubble, being valued at 20 times revenue, which sounds quaint by today's standards, but by 1998 standards.
And I said, Dennis, it's a bubble.
So very quickly left the fund.
And within, I think, three months, we had raised $80 million to launch Subarina.com, which was the e-commerce, Amazon.com merged with Alibaba to take on Brazil.
And that happened very, very quickly.
A second time after we sold my business during the GFC, I was working for another fund briefly and looking to buy the sort of a fixed income exchange in Brazil.
It's a dominant platform, 80% EBITDA margin business, a lot of competition.
And then all of a sudden the GFC happened and everyone dropped out.
Everyone.
And I was like, no, double down.
And we were able to buy a market-dominant, high-margin business that's six times EBITDA.
And we did it in two months.
And people were like, what do you mean you're doing something with the GFC?
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