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Santiago Suárez

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The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

And he's like, how well organized the company is.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

So I think that was one of the core insights was like, there's got to be a better way.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

And that speaks to then, okay, how do I want to do this?

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

And there were two things I knew about starting a company.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

One, I wanted to do it.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

Two, I never wanted to do it on a visa.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

Because one of the challenges in Navia was like for a while, the government denied my H1B, then I had to re-get it.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

So I was like, I need a green card if I'm ever going to do that in the US.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

That automatically means bigger company, lower upside, but lower downside, you can stay there.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

And then the third thing, to your point, I was like...

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

well, I want to go see how great CEOs operate.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

Because clearly, I have no idea what I was doing in my 35 days as a CEO of a five-person company, but someone else did not.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

So I wrote a list and we had Costco in it.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

I had Amazon in it.

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The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

I had Wynn Casinos in it.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

It wasn't even financial services related.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

It was just who are these incredible people and how do they operate?

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

And I basically leveraging...

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

And McKinsey, Yale, everyone I knew, I just tried to get in a position to get a job somewhere close to these people.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

And the first one that came up with this kind of legendary strategy group back at the time, which was 10 people at J.P.