Sep 25, 2018
This podcast with Emilia Diaz, a Chilean entrepreneur who dropped out of university at age 21 to run the biotech startup Kaitek Labs, is one of my favorite podcasts so far. And it's one of the most necessary.
In the US, we celebrate entrepreneurs who learn lessons from failure. I always knew that I'd be able to get a...
Sep 18, 2018
Pedro Pablo del Campo is a Chilean entrepreneur, and the newest addition to our Magma Partners team. Born in Punta Arenas, one of the most Southerly cities in the world, Pedro Pablo traveled the world in his youth since his father was in the Air Force and then a commercial pilot. From a young age, Pedro Pablo was eager...
Sep 11, 2018
Not all global startups were founded in a Silicon Valley garage. OpenEnglish, an online platform for teaching English with over 500,000 students in 40 countries, started in a student apartment in Caracas, Venezuela in 2007. Open English started as in person English classes for Fortune 500 companies’ Latin American...
Sep 4, 2018
After growing up in the Bay Area, Diego Caicedo left Popayán, a small town in Colombia, at age fifteen to go to university in Bogota, then dropped out two semesters before finishing his degree in engineering. Why? He had a plan to build a massive, vertically-integrated coffee company that bridged the US and his native...