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Santiago Suárez

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The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

And then working with the partners, now we've got a very powerful kind of four pillars, right?

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

So we talk about

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

A, our customer service, Adri, we call our agents and we've talked about them.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

You know, we're investing in transformers.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

So we're building our own transformers, using our own GPUs to train our own kind of like GPT of sorts.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

We call it AdiDNA with incredible early results.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

Obviously, we've got kind of like our whole refactoring of the engineering code base.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

So we...

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

We're moving away mostly from reactive Java to more declarative language, sort of code as hardness.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

And we've seen extremely powerful early results.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

We just shipped a version of our web marketplace.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

So, you know, our marketplace is in our app because we're very app-centric.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

But having it on web, great customer acquisition tool.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

It also allows TikTok to index you, Google to index you.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

It's just a lot of benefits.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

But we'd always been like, man, it takes six to nine months, five engineers, 60 product engineers.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

Not quite sure it hits the bar.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

Two engineers, two months.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

So then that's the piece.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

And then the last piece, which is the one that I'm spending most of the time, even though it has...