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Babe you don’t understand… It’s the Golden Age of Latin America.

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@AlexCorrino he used to have common sense

Guy who goes max bearish on equities and then lists 6 long term events that are guaranteed to happen

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interesting LatAm delivers on the first two. good businesses and reliable founders are often quite public if you look in the right place. exit strategy is what the large funds need to bring to the table to create the ideal scenario for growth and capital flows. happy to chat further with anyone interested.

@klanian founder quality, local execution, and exit visibility

A friend at Morgan Stanley recently walked me through a LatAm fintech fund that’s only really been live for about six months. Small team. Local partners in Mexico and Colombia. Around a ~$16M vehicle. Their thesis is simple: take proven playbooks from China and rebuild them in LatAm with operators who understand both worlds. It’s a useful case study for how emerging markets actually get built: not by importing capital, but by importing operating DNA. In LatAm, language and culture are more unified than SEA in many ways. The real friction is execution: local presence, local trust, and a credible path to exits. If you underwrite LatAm like a US market, you will be wrong. If you underwrite it like a long-duration operating market, it starts to make sense.

@yucayo Por dónde se empieza?

Vivo en Uruguay desde hace 14 años. Llegué casi de casualidad entre varias opciones migratorias, pero desde los pocos meses acá me quedé por elección. Pude irme a Argentina, en España, en Estados Unidos, en Ecuador e incluso en China. De todos esos países recibí (y sigo recibiendo) propuestas de trabajo o negocio. Sigo eligiendo Uruguay. Mi elección no es racional aclaro, es emocional. Yo acá me siento en casa. Acá se acabaron "mis ganas de escapar". Uruguay tiene todo para ser un país desarrollado, empezando por sus dimensiones y poca población que le deberían permitir cambiar rápidamente y adaptarse el mundo, prosperar en él. Los heraldos del conformismo y la justificación sacarán su batería de excusas: "estamos lejos de todo", "no somos de la UE ni de la Commonwealth", "somos chicos". Estos son solo algunos de los ejemplos de "las uvas están verdes" para demeritar los éxitos de otros y justificar la cobardía (sí, es cobardía: la mediocridad es cobardía) propia. La realidad es que tenemos todo para ser el mejor lugar en el mundo para nacer y vivir, todo menos lo más importante: voluntad. Y esa falta de voluntad es consecuencia a su vez de una tremenda falta de liderazgo. En el ejemplo irlandés que pone Ibrahim en su artículo siempre hay, al menos, un Alexandros. Siempre hay alguien ("alguienes") que se atreve, que corta el nudo gordiano, que cruza el Rubicón, que va más allá. En Irlanda, Nueva Zelanda, Australia, Estonia, Taiwan, Corea, Singapur: siempre hubo quienes se la jugaron. Nosotros no tenemos eso en nuestras élites. En el mejor de los casos tenemos reformistas descafeinados. Da igual si son nuestras élites intelectuales, académicas, culturales, políticas o empresariales, las propuestas son siempre reformas light, tan light que operan como "vacunas" para el sistema: lo ayudan a generar más defensas contra los cambios. "Dentro del sistema todo, fuera del sistema nada". Y todos sabemos que el sistema está quebrado. Sabemos que la movilidad social es nula, que la educación es ineficaz a ineficiente, que el Estado no garantiza la seguridad ni la justicia, que la Economía no crece ni el empleo tampoco, que el costo de vida es insoportable y, como consecuencia de ello, la gente se va, vota con los pies, incluso los inmigrantes se van de vuelta, la gente no tiene hijos, la gente se deprime, se auto elimina. ¿Llevará todo esto a que deje de ser para muchos "suficientemente bueno"? ¿Llevará a que nos animemos a encarar profundos cambios que llenen el país de oportunidades y esperanza? La Pesca es un ejemplo de que se puede, de que las corporaciones no son omnipotentes, de que con visión y valentía, es posible romper el status quo y cambiar rápidamente. Sí, personalmente elijo creer que sí, que en Uruguay podemos cambiar si decidimos liderar y cual efecto "Pigmalión", ser cada día, parte de esos cambios.

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@GEVS94 Let’s go

Mis herman@s latinoamericanos: Es nuestro momento de mostrarle al mundo que somos capaces, pero sobre todo que estamos unidos. Quiero agradecer los mensajes de apoyo por la ronda de Kavak. Muchos lo describieron como un respiro para el ecosistema Latinoamericano. Carlos y el equipo lograron una de las hazañas más grandes a nivel global. Le dieron la vuelta. Creo que la gente aún no lo dimensiona, pero ellos nos han mostrado el camino. Los que me conocen saben que ha sido un camino lleno de sudor y en los valles más oscuros de lágrimas para llegar a este momento. Estoy consciente de que no he logrado nada, pero esto marca un punto importante de este proyecto que empecé en a16z hace 5 años. De mi lado, sigo con la misma ambición de dar lo mejor y llegar a lo más alto de esta industria antes de ir por la presidencia de mi país: El Salvador. Quería compartir un mensaje a los emprendedores Latinoamericanos. Durante los últimos años, me entristeció mucho ver como en los momentos de oscuridad en lugar de apoyarnos nos destruimos entre nosotros mismos. El apoyo a nivel de ecosistema no existía. Solo existían las burlas y el deseo de “espero que no le vaya bien” influenciado por nuestras propias inseguridades. Es por esa mentalidad que nuestro ecosistema está por detrás de otros ecosistemas alrededor del mundo. El flujo de ideas y de cooperación es la clave para que un ecosistema prospere. Lo he visto alrededor del mundo. Es la diferencia de ecosistemas como Silicon Valley, Tel Aviv y Estocolmo. Tenemos que cambiar nuestra mentalidad de escasez por la mentalidad de abundancia. Tenemos que empezar a creer que somos capaces de lograr grandes hazañas. Y esto solo lo vamos a lograr si trabajamos juntos. Lo veo en la generación que viene. Tenemos Latinos muy top en los AI labs más grandes del mundo y estos chicos y chicas se la creen. Estos quieren ganar la copa del mundo. Y es nuestro trabajo apoyarles y compartir con ellos nuestras enseñanzas para que ellos puedan llegar a alturas que parecían imposibles. Cuando veas la ilusión en los ojos de un joven es nuestro trabajo fomentar ambición y confianza solo así podremos salir de este ciclo que nos detiene de llegar a lo más alto por que la capacidad la tenemos. ¡Vamos Latinoamerica!

@antoniogm 15 cents on the dollar without optimizing too much for efficiency

Just one look at this and suddenly I don’t mind paying 53 cents of every dollar I make for the view.

I used to think Sapiens was a great book. Sweeping, provocative, the kind of book that makes you feel like you finally understand the big picture of human history. It's on every CEO's bookshelf, assigned in universities, praised as a masterwork of synthesis. Yuval Noah Harari is treated as one of the serious thinkers of our time. But something nagged at me. Some passages felt off. Claims that human rights are just figments of our collective imagination, not real things, just stories we tell ourselves. That nations, laws, money, justice, doesn't exist outside our heads. That meaning itself is a delusion we've invented to cope. That we're far more powerful than ever before but not happier. That hunter-gatherers had it better because they had no dishes to wash, no carpets to vacuum, no nappies to change, no bills to pay. That sounded depressing to me, but was perhaps just the realistic scientific worldview? What it meant to see the world clearly, without comforting illusions. Then I read The Beginning of Infinity by @DavidDeutschOxf. Deutsch has a concept he calls 'bad philosophy.' Not philosophy that's merely false, but philosophy that actively prevents the growth of knowledge. Ideas that close doors rather than open them. That makes problems seem unsolvable by design. After soaking in Deutsch's framework (it's dense, a bit like digesting a delicious whale), it becomes clear: Harari's books are riddled with bad philosophy. They're smuggling nihilism in under the guise of scientific objectivity. Some examples: On meaning: "Human life has absolutely no meaning. Humans are the outcome of blind evolutionary processes that operate without goal or purpose... any meaning that people inscribe to their lives is just a delusion." On human rights: "There are no gods in the universe, no nations, no money, no human rights, no laws, and no justice outside the common imagination of human beings." On free will: "Humans are now hackable animals. The idea that humans have this soul or spirit and they have free will, that's over." On progress: "We thought we were saving time; instead we revved up the treadmill of life to ten times its former speed." The Agricultural Revolution? "History's biggest fraud." We didn't domesticate wheat, "it domesticated us." On our cosmic significance: "If planet Earth were to blow up tomorrow morning, the universe would probably keep going about its business as usual. Human subjectivity would not be missed." On the future: "Those who fail in the struggle against irrelevance would constitute a new 'useless class.'" Homo sapiens will likely "disappear in a century or two." This is bad philosophy. It tells us our problems are cosmically insignificant, our solutions are illusions, and that progress is neither desirable nor within our control. It's also perfect nonsense. No one would ever go back to being hunter-gatherers. Would you rather worry about your kid spending too much time on Roblox, or face the 50% chance she won't reach puberty? And our so-called "fictions"? They ended slavery. They gave women equal rights. They solved hunger. They eradicated smallpox. They turned sand into computer chips. They got us to the moon, and hopefully soon, to Mars and beyond. These "fictions" are already reshaping the universe, and over time they may become the most potent force in it. Now compare Deutsch: "Humans, people and knowledge are not only objectively significant: they are by far the most significant phenomena in nature." "Feeling insignificant because the universe is large has exactly the same logic as feeling inadequate for not being a cow." "Problems are soluble, and each particular evil is a problem that can be solved." "We are only just scratching the surface, and shall never be doing anything else. If unlimited progress really is going to happen, not only are we now at almost the very beginning of it, we always shall be." Where Harari sees a species of deluded apes stumbling toward obsolescence, Deutsch sees universal explainers, the only entities we know of capable of creating explanatory knowledge, solving problems, and potentially seeding the universe with intelligence. The difference isn't academic. Ideas shape action. If you believe life is meaningless, progress is a trap, and humans are hackable animals with no free will, how does that affect what you build? What you fight for? What you teach your children? Harari's books sell because they flatter a fashionable pessimism. They let readers feel sophisticated for seeing through the "delusions" everyone else lives by. That smug cynicism is corrosive. And it's everywhere: in schools, in media, in bestselling books. More than half of young adults now say they feel little to no purpose or meaning in life. This is what happens when you teach an entire generation bad philosophy. Less progress, less health, less wealth. Less flourishing. And ultimately, a higher chance that civilization and consciousness go extinct. Fortunately, there's another equally well-written, but much truer, account of homo sapiens, appropriately titled 'The Beginning of Infinity'. And this one smuggles no despair in by the backdoor. But let's give Harari credit where it's due. He is right about one thing: if planet Earth blew up tomorrow, we wouldn't be missed. Because there'd be no one left to miss us, just a careless universe, blindly obeying physical laws. We are the only ones who can miss, but we're not going to. We're going to aim, hit, and keep going. Full credit for the amazing meme to @Ben__Jeff

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@SilvioBusonero how do you approach collateralized vs uncollateralized lending in your thesis? do you think it's a relevant factor?

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