INTERVIEW
I majored in journalism and although I loved it, I wanted to be on the other side – I wanted to be building something and not just witnessing it
When I started on the MBA, I was pretty young and didn’t have that much professional experience. I always felt that I lacked that experience, but over the years, I realised that that was perhaps how I was approaching it, not exactly what the reality was. It was just how I felt and towards my colleagues and not what it was. What is next for you on your career journey? Who knows? I’m really proud about what we have built in Prometeo. I think that we are building a product that will play a major part in the financial future of the region. My founders and I are so proud of what we have built so far; we want to see it grow and make it as big as possible. We really believe that the infrastructure we are creating in Latin America will play a fundamental role in the new financial sector – for example, in the new dynamics we are seeing, and in the new behaviours that users are showing, and will display in the future. I think that everything will be related somehow – with tech devices and tech enablers – and so fintech infrastructure is a great tech enabler, and a pretty necessary one. I think that the future in that sense, looks quite promising. We are pretty well aware that other regions besides Latin America lack the same financial infrastructure that we are providing. For us, it’s about how impactful we can be in Latin America but also how impactful we can be in other regions
and around the globe. We want to see Prometeo scale to other regions. Besides the product and the growth of our company, we are really proud of the team that we have built. I always stress that being an entrepreneur is a journey of self-discovery, but at the same time, it’s a path towards meaning and creating new meanings around different things. For us at Prometeo, it’s about creating new meanings around work: What dynamics do we create? How can we relate to one another in the workplace? What’s the value of work? How do we instil meaning into that, and how can we create more value? I think that Latin America is going through a redefining process of different institutions, and I think the workplace is one of them. It’s really important for us to create our own
sense of what work is, and how it can become a rewarding and happy experience.
We always also stress that we want Prometeo to becomes a synonym for excellence in tech, so that in the future, anyone coming from Prometeo and looking to be hired by another company has a great background. I think it’s really important for Latin America to have its own labels for excellence. Startups from Latam can also become a synonym for excellence; they are really capable and have great people working for them. We want to build the same reputation at Prometeo, and that’s something that’s becoming our focus.
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