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Growing Organically: Sebastian Kanovich, CEO of dLocal (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: In the 1M/1M program, bootstrapping is a huge part of our philosophy. We know this from statistics that over 99% of the business that try to raise venture capital actually get rejected because they don’t fit into the venture capital model necessarily. We are huge supporters of the bootstrapping model. What you’re saying
Growing Organically: Sebastian Kanovich, CEO of dLocal (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: You inherited 40 customers from AstroPay. Were you doing prepaid private label cards for these 40 merchants and then you switched that to something else? What was the case for the spin off? Sebastian Kanovich: First of all, we didn’t want to have a company which was both B2B and B2C. We wanted
Growing Organically: Sebastian Kanovich, CEO of dLocal (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: What was the structure? Did AstroPay put in money into dLocal? How did you financially engineer this? Sebastian Kanovich: We share most of the shareholders. dLocal shares existing customers from AstroPay. We lost money for one month but after that, we managed to break even. We’ve been profitable since then. We didn’t have
Growing Organically: Sebastian Kanovich, CEO of dLocal (Part 1)
dLocal was spun off from its parent company with 40 customers. It never took any outside funding and has grown to 350 customers within a year. Read on for more. 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
