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Building a Global Hardcore Financial Technology Company from Brazil: Ricardo Josua, CEO of Pismo (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: What is your engineering team in Brazil like? How big is it? Is it all in one place? Ricardo Josua: It’s spread around the world. We have 280 engineers at this point. Sramana Mitra: In Sao Paulo? Ricardo Josua: No, they’re remote. Maybe 120 are in Sao Paulo. We have become remote-first. People
Building a Global Hardcore Financial Technology Company from Brazil: Ricardo Josua, CEO of Pismo (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: Your core value proposition when it comes to the global market is the combination of payments and core banking? Ricardo Josua: This is one of the main features. You have everything rolled up in a single integration. The second one was that this is not a monolithic solution. It can provide all the
Building a Global Hardcore Financial Technology Company from Brazil: Ricardo Josua, CEO of Pismo (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: Were these Brazilian banks? Ricardo Josua: The first ones, yes. The first one we went to was the largest bank in Brazil. We ended up closing this large contract. It was an experiment. Just having the open door there changed everything. Sramana Mitra: Now you can go to all the other Brazilian banks
Building a Global Hardcore Financial Technology Company from Brazil: Ricardo Josua, CEO of Pismo (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: Pinpoint for me exactly what problem you are solving now. Ricardo Josua: We are solving agility with robustness for core banking capabilities. What banks have done for the past 10 years is take an agile team or a group of young developers and build experiences that are very cool but have to integrate
Building a Global Hardcore Financial Technology Company from Brazil: Ricardo Josua, CEO of Pismo (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: Now we’re in 2012? Ricardo Josua: 2014. I started another venture in finance providing structuring for asset-backed security. It was lateral to the business we were doing at that point. I also began working with EdTech on modernization for schools. Sramana Mitra: In what capacity were you involved in these ventures?
Building a Global Hardcore Financial Technology Company from Brazil: Ricardo Josua, CEO of Pismo (Part 1)
We don’t hear of hardcore B-to-B technology ventures coming out of Latin America very often.Ricardo is building one that caters to banks and financial institutions, has raised over $100M in financing, has over $25M in revenue, and has major Latin American banks as customers. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey.
