luis pulgar
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luis pulgar
@lap0921
co-founder ceo @tesote_ // ex product & cs at @rhobusiness
Miami Beach, FL Katılım Ocak 2010
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buddy in Miami for the weekend tells me his itinerary is Liv, ele11en, SoHo beach house, living room
Showed up to padel hung over
then has the nerve to say “idk how people live here”
Bruno Faviero@Bfaviero
I have been in Miami 2 months now. I have not been to a club a single time. I mostly see other nerds (coworking). I've been to the beach twice, each on a saturday morning. Airport 10 minutes away. My weekly activities are Padel, Backgammon, Kundalini Yoga. It's what you make of it!
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@auren Depends. I think the fact that we’re Miami-based but all of our customers are LatAm enterprises makes it make sense. If that weren’t the case, we would’ve likely been in SF or NY.
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@lap0921 hard to re-run the past, but do you think you'd be more successful if you spent the last 6 years in SF?
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Closer by the minute ✨
luis pulgar@lap0921
Manifesting for this to happen again in my lifetime 🇻🇪
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El éxodo abrió un vacío en el sector privado y una generación lo ocupó: jóvenes profesionales venezolanos —formados en casa o retornados— ascendiendo a velocidades impensables hace una década. Y están reescribiendo las reglas del mercado laboral:
ecosistemag.com/me-quedaria-de…
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📍 Un momento muy especial en la Bolsa de Nueva York
En @NYSE Floor Talk compartimos la historia de @somoscashea, las lecciones de construir fintech en mercados complejos y cómo estamos transformando el acceso al crédito.
Gracias a la alianza @endeavor_global × @NYSE por la experiencia.
youtube.com/watch?v=skQw64…

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Los empresarios en Venezuela tienen que abrir los ojos. El país entra en el carril de la modernidad. O corren o se encaraman.
No es solo la inversión extranjera que viene, sino la cultura de eficiencia que trae consigo (especialmente la de EE.UU.).
Basta de luchar por migajas, parcelas y protección. El juego cambió. Lo que viene:
1. Competencia por talento: el recurso más escaso no será el capital, sino el talento de primer nivel en un país hecho ruinas.
2. Actualización tecnológica: el rezago es real y las articulaciones están oxidadas por años sin competencia, dádivas, estatismo, discursos grandilocuentes pero poca productividad y orientación al logro.
3. Mentalidad global: el reto es integrarse al sistema o quedar fuera de la foto. A superar el complejo de minusvalía.
El mundo no espera y la dinámica del mercado es implacable. Dejen de ser reactivos.
La nueva realidad de Venezuela ya está aquí, nos sacude a pasos acelerados, y vendrán muchas más transformaciones para las que debemos estar preparados.
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Miami is great in a lot of ways. I’ve been here full time for 5+ years, after living in SF from 2017–2020 and working in tech.
I’m fully ready to spend way more time in SF than Miami.
Miami has a lot going for it, but I’m building a tech company, and SF is easily 100x the opportunity in network, talent, and pace.
My parents moved to Miami in 2009 and most of my friends/family are here, but Miami just isn’t fulfilling if you’re extremely ambitious in tech.
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Share this view of Miami boom feeling
Miami has the alt health metrics for a city:
Family oriented
-% of population children
-How integrated children are into day to day life
Civic art & beauty
-Public art (whether art is good or not) Miami has ongoing investment in public beauty, art everywhere, etc
Influx of people
-People moving from multiple other states/countries to be there
Government that wants a better life for its citizens
-Govt that appears focused on making its city & people happier and more successful in an ever better environment
Industry cluster for something central and/or compounding
-May be the weakest on this. Strong on tourism, real estate, LATAM/international trade. Some finance and tech moving there, but still not a major cluster for something central or compounding fast yet
Patrick Collison@patrickc
Miamiposting might be a phenomenon whose time has passed, but having just spent a few days visiting, it really does feel like a boomtown in a way that no other American city that I've spent time in over the past few years does. In some ways, it reminds me of Chinese cities.
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It’s been a whirlwind year for @TheFintechFund.
The fund is into its fourth year of investing, and after 3 years of background work, chopping wood, and conviction
– 3 years in which fintech was radioactive and nobody believed in stablecoins –
it’s exciting to see the work start to pay off. I feel incredibly lucky for the great fintech community that I get to work with every day.
The fund year in review:
• Jan – Zelody pre-seed
• Jan – @CoinflowLabs strategic round
• Feb – @stableseaHQ seed round
• Feb – @Bmoniapp Seed round (doubling-down from pre-seed)
• Mar – @abodemoney seed round
• May – @tesote_ seed round
• May – Confido Series A (doubling-down)
• June – Steward Series A (doubling-down in 6 months)
• June – @AcctualTeam seed round
• June – Domeo pre-seed
• Aug – @CoinflowLabs Series A (doubling-down in 6 months)
• Sep – @rainforestpay Series B (tripling-down)
• Sep – Moment Series C gets pre-empted
• Sep – Flyra pre-seed
• Sep – Portco @getTransFi raises its Series A (we invested at pre-seed and seed)
• Sep – Portco @brale_xyz raises its Series A (~8 months after we invested)
• Sep – @Bmoniapp raises a pre-empted Seed+
• Oct – Embassy seed round
• Oct – Decoda raises a Seed+
• Oct – Nominated as one of 20 funds to present at @raiseconference
• Nov – Valinor seed round
• Nov – @stableseaHQ raises a Seed+
• Dec – @WiseLayer acquired (12 months after investing)
• Dec – Float seed round
• Dec – Cobalt ID seed round
• Dec – Bluefyn pre-seed
• Dec – Better Money seed round
I'm grateful to be here and fired up for what 2026 will bring – onward! 🚀
(Wrap-up inspired by @ac_steele's @ActivantCapital year-in-review.)
@twifintech @thestablecon


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I am delighted to announce @gemini_sports have signed a three year agreement with @AS_Monaco to power their football operations!
Incredible opportunity to collaborate with world class individuals like @rodripicchioni @carlosavina10 @VigneshJayanth1
Full release below

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🚨August @roam !nvestor Update
We just beat our greatest month ever. Accelerating ARR growth to:
+11.6% Month-over-Month ARR
+36% Quarterly ARR Growth
+117% Trailing NDR
Office of the Future rapidly is becoming the default office for the elite companies of the present
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I’m excited to share that I’m joining @flyarcher (NYSE: ACHR) as Head of Investor Relations!
Archer’s mission is to unlock the skies, freeing us to reimagine how we live and spend time.
I’ve spent my career at the intersection of capital, startups, and technology. And now, I’m thrilled to be leveraging my global experience to drive value for our shareholders and stakeholders.


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@alexgalvezr Si, de acuerdo. Pero la penetración digital todavía es sustancialmente baja, y el número de negocios digitales es relativamente bajo. Eso significa que los modelos exitosos pueden llegar a ser MUY exitosos, siempre que sigan expandiendo sus soluciones.
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