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Santiago Suárez

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The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

Just ignore them for five years to 10 years.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

And then one day you'll come out and they'll be like, why didn't you call me?

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

And you'll say, I tried many times.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

And it was just this clarity of purpose, lighter focus, high conviction, serving a market in a different way.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

And then on the marketplace in particular, Caspi has an incredible job at owning e-commerce without logistics.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

And it's not because we're tourists.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

It's because you wouldn't build a social network today like you built Facebook in 2004.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

You wouldn't build a marketplace like you built.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

And we even said, and we were a tiny company and smaller, but like,

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

You know, when we built Addy in the first iteration, we had to do all of our ID checks in-house.

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The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

You remember this?

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

Yep.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

Nowadays, we modularize some of it.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

We keep, like, the real valuable part, the algorithms, the software.

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The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

But, like, for a commodity run-of-the-mill biometric check, there's great providers that'll do it.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

And zero equity value generated there.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

That's just a commodity.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

So thinking modularly is very important, and that was another lesson there.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

Very productive trip.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

Yeah, this was... This is...