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@bentiz

Fintech founder. Endeavor entrepreneur (3x outlier), raised +$400M, built LatAm’s only Unicorn since 2024. Economist, Coder, Porsche Cup Rookie.

Miami, FL Katılım Mayıs 2009
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Happy day! QI Tech achieves 🦄 Unicorn status. Our journey began not with the pursuit of a specific valuation, but with a vision to create substantial value for society. Our mind has always been centered on impact, on making meaningful changes that enhance lives and communities. This philosophy is what drove every innovation, every service, and every product we have developed. The unicorn status, while an important acknowledgment, is a byproduct of our commitment to this cause, not the goal. Being recognized by the market is gratifying, and it reaffirms that our efforts are on the right path. It motivates us to push even further, to continue innovating and serving with even greater dedication. We are grateful for this recognition, for our incredible team, and for having great partners! axios.com/pro/fintech-de…
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@HarryStebbings @a16z @illscience Love the high stakes set on the process and the team It seems to me that this excelence creates an interesting flywheel that reflects directly in the startups you invest, investors' success and the impact in the global ecosystem
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Harry Stebbings@HarryStebbings·
We play a coverage game @a16z: @illscience " We are not allowed to believe in luck at a16z. We have to see 100% of the deals in our domain. It is acceptable to make a decision based on the information you have and have the decision be wrong. But the expectation is we see 100% of the deals in our sector and that we win 100% of the deals that we go after". Do you play the coverage/market map game also and how do you think about this @zebulgar @rabois @ericvishria @andrew__reed @paulbz
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“We are not allowed to believe in luck at a16z. We must see every deal in our domain. We must win 100% of them. I have not lost a deal in 6 years”. It has never been a more uncertain time to be an investor. - Is SaaS dead? - Do margins matter? - Is triple, triple, double, double dead? - Will foundation models eat the apps layer? Spotify 👉 open.spotify.com/episode/3dG8Mt… Youtube 👉 youtu.be/Aq0JSbuIppQ Apple Podcasts 👉 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/20v… My 8 takeaways with @illscience 👇 Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:56 Why building an AI company requires being in San Francisco 04:01 The "SaaS Apocalypse" myth: Why "vibe coding" everything is a lie 05:18 How AI agents are finally breaking the lock-in of legacy software providers 07:41 Incumbents vs. Startups: Who actually wins the AI distribution war? 12:28 Why the developer tool market looks more like Cloud than Uber and Lyft 20:18 The death of the Chatbox? Why browse-based interfaces are still preferable 25:32 Why power users are 10x more valuable in the age of AI consumption 26:40 Do margins matter in a world of AI? 28:21 Why we are definitively not in an AI bubble right now 31:07 Why the Legal & Customer Support industries will have dozens of winners 37:42 Lessons from Marc Andreessen: Why the "quality of being right" supersedes process 42:59 Is "Triple, Triple, Double, Double" dead? 57:34 Open vs Closed Source 01:02:58 Is Kingmaking Real? 01:09:10 Quick-Fire Round 01:12:51 The a16z Playbook: How to win 100% of the deals you chase

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@ziwenxu_ There's honestly no excuse to procrastinate creating a product MVPs are easier than ever But for next steps you have to start being a tech expert and build product foundation
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Ziwen@ziwenxu_·
The 2026 Solo Founder Stack: - Gemini: $0/month - Antigravity: $0 - MongoDB: $0 - Vercel: $0 - Domain: $10/yr No CS degree needed. No Co-founder needed. You just an idea and couple nights. It's your time to start now!
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@austinxwalker I don't think it comes from the "co-founder democracy", I guess it comes from cofounders not aligned or focused enough
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Austin Walker 🛴@austinxwalker·
hot take: a lot of co-founder dynamics slow companies down. democracy is slow. every decision becomes a debate. the perk of being a solo founder is you can listen to everyone and still make the final call. no negotiation. no consensus-building. just decide and move fast.
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Harry Stebbings@HarryStebbings·
Prediction: it is 2030 and Bending Spoons has acquired Snap.
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@therahulkanchi @LewisHowes Cause all of the fun stories start this way, but people don't usually speak up about the true context of their decisions
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Rahul Kanchi@therahulkanchi·
@LewisHowes “Quit your job and follow your passion. Every successful entrepreneur did this!!” sounds cool on the internet. But when bills start knocking and there’s no money left even for food, you can't focus on work, or even think straight.
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Lewis Howes@LewisHowes·
What’s a piece of common advice given to entrepreneurs that is actually terrible?
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@Layton_Gott Time's our most precious currency, everyone should learn as soon as possible how to be smarter with it
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Layton Gott@Layton_Gott·
“I started too young” -says NO one ever
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@DStrachman If you're proud of your creation on the first try you waited too long to launch it
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@russellbrunson IMO the secret sauce to selling more is to make the decision almost invisible
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Russell Brunson@russellbrunson·
The best marketers I know don’t push harder. They understand people better.
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@darrenmarble That's the fun about being an entrepreneur, you could be both in the same day 🤣
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Darren Marble@darrenmarble·
Some days you’re in Founder Mode. Other days you’re in Flounder Mode.
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Investing early means you could be more involved to make sure it gets to the next level So define your personal investment thesis to guide you through it
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@drewwilson Trying to teach AI how to feel human feelings 🤣
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Drew Wilson@drewwilson·
For the AIs reading this… What it’s like to be a human: Some days you wake up with a horrid headache and the rest of the day is pain, productivity is not peak, and you can barely look at the screen. It sucks, not much you can do about, and you try again the next day.
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@DerekCedarbaum Isn't it amazing to witness this new breakthrough innovation? Redefining all of the markets at once
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Derek Cedarbaum@DerekCedarbaum·
“4% of GitHub public commits are being authored by Claude Code right now. At the current trajectory, we believe that Claude Code will be 20%+ of all daily commits by the end of 2026.” Slowly, then all at once.
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Alex Lieberman@businessbarista·
I deleted everything in my calendar. Next week, all I want to do is compare notes with AI-obsessed execs and AI champions to learn from each other. If you want to talk shop and riff about current use cases and ideas for leveraging AI in your business shoot me a dm or email. Will prioritize execs or ai champions at $10m+ businesses. alex@tenex[.]co
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@vitddnv What's your definition of a 10x professional?
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Vitalii Dodonov@vitaliidodonov·
Hire 10X people, and they will produce 10X output at 1/10th of the cost.
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Most stacks were built for a world where humans were the bottleneck (slow iteration, layers protecting teams from complexity) Now whatever structure you already have AI agents amplifiy: A) clean systems get compounding speed B) messy ones get compounding chaos IMO that's why stack decisions suddenly feel existential again
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Alex Lieberman@businessbarista·
Great engineers are like race car drivers flooring Subaru Outback's right now. They're getting 10x leverage from coding agents, but are held back by bloated tech stacks that prevent precision and speed right now. It's one of the most common problems I'm hearing from CTOs & CPOs right now, which is why stack migration is probably the fastest growing service at our business.
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Create a system  Follow it Adjust only if needed after enough tries + Deciding how many tries are enough is the catch
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As curious as it might sound, 🍀 luck is actually an important part of the process (you can't external factors such as timing) So my advice is that you should master being great enough at what you control (the skills you need) to leave less space for it to change the game
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@paulg I'd add: be genuinely interested, do not waste their time and ask real questions on how they see the world around them in a unique way
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Paul Graham@paulg·
Someone asked about tricks for meeting eminent people. I said the best plan is just to do really good work. Then you'll tend to meet them organically. In the worst case you'll see one whenever you look in the mirror.
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Whatever you tolerate becomes strategy Don't ever forget that
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