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Santiago Suárez

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The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

And finally, we're like, okay, EBITDA.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

And now these days, we even optimize our taxes because we're trying to optimize that income.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

So it just focuses the discussion.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

By the way, it worked really well, but now that you have three very different business lines, we're starting to play with it a little bit more and saying, what are the, but so we call them the L1 metrics.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

One or two, maybe three KPIs that we want to track.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

But even then, it's three, not five, seven, because once you get to five and seven, no one knows them.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

So that becomes hard.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

Which was a great thing about profitability.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

And by the way, for what it's worth, I actually think one of the biggest challenges we had after we hit profitability, it's kind of like the dog that catch the bus.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

And they were like, profitable.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

Now what?

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

But now it turns out we knew it, but it was such a core thing of every weekly business review for three years.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

Then once we actually got there,

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

We even had to do a lot of like company education because we start, we stopped talking about it on a weekly basis.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

But we said the same way that no one says you should show up to work wearing appropriate clothing.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

That's like, that is profitability.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

It's just like an expectation.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

Like we've gotten, because we were like, well, if we don't talk about it, can we be unprofitable again?

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

And we're like, no, you cannot be.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

It's just a necessary part of what we do.