Building a High-Growth Startup From Brazil: Revelo CEO Lachlan de Crespigny (Part 1)

Lachlan has built a wonderful company from Brazil that has emerged as a pandemic beneficiary.
Read on for the nuances of his journey.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised and in what kind of background?

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Catching Up On Readings: Ad Fraud

This feature from Wired looks at fake online advertising and how automated worker bees of cyberspace influence online behavior. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

October 6 – 592nd 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 592nd FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, October 6, 2022, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/5 p.m. CEST/8:30 p.m. India IST.

If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea. You’ll receive straightforward feedback, advice on next steps, and answers to any of your questions. Others can register to “attend” to watch, learn, and interact through the online chat.

You can learn more here and REGISTER TO PITCH OR ATTEND HERE. Register and you will receive the recording by email, even if you are unable to attend. Please share with any entrepreneurs in your circle who may be interested. All are welcome!

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Twin Brothers Building a FinTech Venture: Stephen Roche and Gabino Roche, CoFounders of Saphyre (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: Would you now call yourself an exchange where there is a lot of inter-financial institution stuff happening?

Gabino Roche: I think that’s a fair analogy. It’s voluntary, because you don’t have to participate. If you do, there are a lot of carrots that come along with it. I like to call it an operating system for finance. The reason I say this is Stephen mentioned it earlier. Everyone had their own on-premise database. They would take Polaroid snapshots of the data, email them together, and then these spreadsheets will upload to our respective systems.

Colors: Church IV

I’m publishing this series on LinkedIn called Colors to explore a topic that I care deeply about: the Renaissance Mind. I am just as passionate about entrepreneurship, technology, and business, as I am about art and culture. In this series, I will typically publish a piece of art – one of my paintings – and I request you to spend a minute or two deeply meditating on it. I urge you to watch your feelings, thoughts, reactions to the piece, and write what comes to you, what thoughts it triggers, in the dialog area. Let us see what stimulation this interaction yields. For today – Church IV

Church  IV | Sramana Mitra, 2021 | Watercolor, Pastel, Brush Pen | 8  x 8, On Paper

Colors: Church III

I’m publishing this series on LinkedIn called Colors to explore a topic that I care deeply about: the Renaissance Mind. I am just as passionate about entrepreneurship, technology, and business, as I am about art and culture. In this series, I will typically publish a piece of art – one of my paintings – and I request you to spend a minute or two deeply meditating on it. I urge you to watch your feelings, thoughts, reactions to the piece, and write what comes to you, what thoughts it triggers, in the dialog area. Let us see what stimulation this interaction yields. For today – Church III

Church  III | Sramana Mitra, 2021 | Watercolor, Pastel, Brush Pen | 8  x 8, On Paper

Twin Brothers Building a FinTech Venture: Stephen Roche and Gabino Roche, CoFounders of Saphyre (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: The workflow that you are facilitating is in the KYC AML in the context of trading.

Gabino Roche: A little bit. Everyone uses the term KYC AML and they imply tax, which is not necessarily KYC AML. They imply contractual legal agreements that are negotiated. For example, when you do derivatives trading, there are legal amendments and credit risk concerns. There are your setups with trading on Bloomberg versus market access and all these FX Connect. These are on top of KYC AML.

Cloud Stocks: Analysis of DigitalOcean’s Acquisitions

According to a recent report, the global serverless architecture market is projected to grow at 23% CAGR to reach $21.1 billion 2025. Digital Ocean (NYSE: DOCN) has been expanding its presence in the market by acquiring smaller players in the market.