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Santiago Suárez

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The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

And people want that.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

And I remember when we went back to Colombia, my co-founder and I were discussing, he's like, oh, should we now migrate to Spanish?

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

Because there's a huge tax about running the company in English.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

An easy one.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

All our copies in English, and they need to get translated because our customers want to see it in Spanish.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

And we were discussing this, and then I was like, no.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

We had not quite an exec offsite, but more like a manager.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

Once a year, we do this thing, and we brought the full 200 of them.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

And most of them are local.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

But the fact that they get to, like, it changes their mind.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

It's like, we are here to do serious work because we're speaking in English.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

You know what I mean?

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

So, obviously, that was a piece.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

So, we run the company in English, which actually counterintuitively attracts local talent.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

The other thing we've done is we have a very high bar.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

And we push the bar very high.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

And we're very editorial.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

And we're very editorial on what we want to see from our colleagues and teammates.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

And my view has always been there may not be that many of them, but we only need, you know, a few hundred of them.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

And in whatever, three, four hundred million pool of people, we should be able to get this.