1 hr 3 min
How Bitso's Co-Founder & CEO Daniel Vogel has built a unicorn by making crypto useful Alt Goes Mainstream: The Latest on Alternative Investments, WealthTech, & Private Markets
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Today, we have our first LatAm guest on the AGM podcast. And it was a special one.
Bitso, LatAm’s leading crypto exchange, is fresh off of raising a $250M round led by Tiger Global months after raising a $62M round led by QED and Kaszek - and has been minted as one of LatAm’s newest unicorns.
We had Bitso’s co-founder and CEO Daniel Vogel on to talk about what it has been like to build a leading FinTech company in the region and provide access to investments and financial services.
This was such a fun conversation. We could have gone on for hours. We discussed a number of things including: how Daniel has dedicated his life to unlocking monetary freedom for people through crypto, how a talk with his friend, a janitor at his company in Silicon Valley, opened his eyes to the need for real applications of crypto to help people send money cross-border, the origins of Bitso and how Bitso was a pioneer of an online brokerage account in Mexico, how Bitso has become the on-ramp for financial services for many consumers across LatAm, the meaning behind Bitso’s slogan #makecryptouseful, the power of stablecoins and how it’s enabling people in countries with inflation and currency fluctuations to save money, how Bitso balances being a centralized company in a decentralized world, and how religion and community play a unique role in crypto.
Today, we have our first LatAm guest on the AGM podcast. And it was a special one.
Bitso, LatAm’s leading crypto exchange, is fresh off of raising a $250M round led by Tiger Global months after raising a $62M round led by QED and Kaszek - and has been minted as one of LatAm’s newest unicorns.
We had Bitso’s co-founder and CEO Daniel Vogel on to talk about what it has been like to build a leading FinTech company in the region and provide access to investments and financial services.
This was such a fun conversation. We could have gone on for hours. We discussed a number of things including: how Daniel has dedicated his life to unlocking monetary freedom for people through crypto, how a talk with his friend, a janitor at his company in Silicon Valley, opened his eyes to the need for real applications of crypto to help people send money cross-border, the origins of Bitso and how Bitso was a pioneer of an online brokerage account in Mexico, how Bitso has become the on-ramp for financial services for many consumers across LatAm, the meaning behind Bitso’s slogan #makecryptouseful, the power of stablecoins and how it’s enabling people in countries with inflation and currency fluctuations to save money, how Bitso balances being a centralized company in a decentralized world, and how religion and community play a unique role in crypto.
1 hr 3 min