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Santiago Suárez

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The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

So we started reading about them.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

And then what Daniel, my co-founder, and I try to do every year is we try to take a trip.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

to see things.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

So we've done one to release, we obviously the first one we did was to Brazil.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

And this around, we said, Well, let's go to Central Asia, Central Asia, everyone knows about Kazakhstan, but also Uzbekistan is incredible.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

In this section of like three FinTech unicorns, Oliver Hughes, who was the long term think of CEO now runs, what's the name TBC Uzbekistan for like, let's go.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

But obviously,

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

you know, the big price is Caspi.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

So I started, like, trying to get in front of this guy.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

In many ways, I pinged one of their investors.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

I got sent to their IR team.

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The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

But the way it worked was after, like, three or four cold LinkedIn emails, he was like, okay, fine.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

I'm like, come.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

And then we go meet him, and he was so generous.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

But she sat there.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

He's like, what questions do you have?

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

I was like, okay, great.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

Well, I shall ask you some questions.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

And then Danny and I just spent 90 minutes with him.

The a16z Show
The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

And he was extremely, you know, obviously public company CEO, but it's just like, just the way he thinks.