Andre Chaves, Co-Founder Future Hacker, Brazil

 Today’s guest is Andre Chaves talking with us from his office in Sao Paulo Brazil. 

Andre is Chief Growth Officer, Squadra Ventures, focused on Business Development of innovation and technology-driven projects; He is Strategic Advisor to bettrAds an AI Adtech SAAS Platform that empowers marketing teams to get more performance on their Ad campaigns and Founder of Leme Growth, helpings companies and startups in the technology, media, and communication segment to digital transformation and to identify innovative growth alternatives.

Andre is also a volunteer and co-founder of Future Hacker, exploring new paths, new discoveries, and new thoughts that should become reality in 10, 20, 30 years.

 The Global market has become one market, and probably in the next ten years we will see markets on other planets, as you see it “What is the outlook for 2021 tech driven projects in Brazil? “ Why should international companies and investors look here for opportunities?

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Yassine Regragui, Fintech, China Expert, Paris, France, Dec 9 2020

 

Today’s guest is Yassine Regragui talking with us from Paris, France, We first met through mutual LinkedIn connections.

 Yassine has years of international working experience in Fintech including 6 years in China at the Alibaba group and Deloitte. He was the first non-Chinese employee to join Alipay in China to lead the multilingual app´s Product Operations. He speaks 5 languages and lived in Hungary and Morocco. Yassine is a guest speaker, lecturer, and Certified Fintech expert.

You have seen and follow the cutting-edge technology in digital payments and Alibaba and Alipay are probably benchmarks today. It has been said that most Chinese handle all payments thru the smartphone devices and that, payments are cashless and touch free.   Here in Brazil, we see a strong movement towards digital payments and transactions as well. The question: is money as we know it in the world obsolete? Do we still need banks? 

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Victoria Mendes, Books, Soccer, Business, Brazil, USA

 Today’s guest is Victoria Mendes talking with us from Lafayette, Louisiana in the United States.

Victoria and I connected a few days ago on LinkedIn and I have learned a lot about her in these few days.

 Victoria is from Campinas, where she studied, played soccer as an adolescent, through both the books and the ball, she received a full NCAA Scholarship to study and play University level soccer in the United States, recently graduated with a BS in Business Administration and Management, and started an MBA in Finance at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

Victoria is also member of the Lafayette Women´s Chamber ofCommerce and President of Net Impact a volunteer student organization at UL to help local businesses assess their performance as it relates to civic engagement, social diversity, equity, inclusion, and sustainable business practices, she also works as a Graduate Assistant at the University.

You have had an extremely intense period in a foreign country, another language, studying, practicing, playing as a goalkeeper with the stress of knowing you are the last stop in front of the goal.

 How did you keep your head together? Did you ever relax?

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