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We've gotten to work together over the years.

And I organized my whole New York week and a half around this conference.

It's very special for me to be here, being from a small town in Puerto Rico with

all these great investors from Latin America or people that have an interest in Latin America, venture capital in the region.

It's really, really special for me.

When I started at Morgan Stanley, I grew up in a small town, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico.

For anyone that has been there, probably very few of you have.

And through a lot of opportunity and seeing things that I was able to see, I got lucky and was able to get a job in Wall Street.

And they put me in the Latin America group in M&A at Morgan Stanley.

But next to our group, there was an equally small group.

This is in 1992.

That was the tech group.

And people were at Morgan Stanley saying, Latin America group is small.

This tech group is really small.

And for some reason, when we would get together, every week those two groups would get together.

I was like, I want to be in that tech group.

There was something about it, and I'm not a coder, I'm not an engineer by background, but it seemed to be a business that really fit young people really well, where you could have a lot of responsibility early in your career.

So I went to the West Coast.

I went to graduate school there.

Then the same thing, I couldn't get a job in private equity.