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TJC Debrief: Who Actually Makes Money in AI?
Jun 9, 2026
1h 13m 16s
Felipe Carvalho, Camu: The Brutal Sales Lesson From Pipefy
May 26, 2026
57m 40s
TJC Debrief with Paulo Passoni: The New US-China Tech Split
May 12, 2026
1h 14m 49s
Gastón Irigoyen, Pomelo: LATAM Beats India as a Fintech Market
Apr 28, 2026
59m 26s
TJC Debrief with Paulo Passoni: Only 4 US Companies Can IPO
Apr 14, 2026
1h 27m 02s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6/9/26 | TJC Debrief: Who Actually Makes Money in AI?✨ | AI investmentventure capital+4 | Ivana Delevska | Spear Alpha ETF (SPRX, Nasdaq)Valor Capital+8 | — | AI spendingdata centers+5 | — | 1h 13m 16s | |
| 5/26/26 |  Felipe Carvalho, Camu: The Brutal Sales Lesson From Pipefy✨ | sales strategyproduct-market fit+4 | Felipe Carvalho | SAP Business OneCamu+9 | — | sales lessonsgo-to-market strategy+5 | — | 57m 40s | |
| 5/12/26 |  TJC Debrief with Paulo Passoni: The New US-China Tech Split✨ | US-China tech splitglobal integration+4 | Paulo Passoni | Valor CapitalMeta+20 | — | US-China relationsAI scaling+3 | — | 1h 14m 49s | |
| 4/28/26 | Gastón Irigoyen, Pomelo: LATAM Beats India as a Fintech Market✨ | fintechentrepreneurship+4 | Gastón Irigoyen | PomeloIndex Ventures+10 | Latin AmericaBrazil+7 | fintechPomelo+6 | — | 59m 26s | |
| 4/14/26 |  TJC Debrief with Paulo Passoni: Only 4 US Companies Can IPO✨ | IPOventure capital+5 | Paulo Passoni | Claude 4.6Valor Capital+9 | BrazilMexico | IPOClaude 4.6+8 | — | 1h 27m 02s | |
| 3/31/26 | Pedro Conrade, Neon: How to Build a $1B Neobank in Brazil✨ | neobankingfundraising+4 | Pedro Conrade | NeonGeneral Atlantic+3 | Brazil | neobankBrazil+5 | — | 58m 05s | |
| 3/17/26 |  Stelleo Tolda: Inside MercadoLibre’s Rise to $100B✨ | entrepreneurshipbusiness strategy+5 | Stelleo Tolda | MercadoLibreAmazon+1 | BrazilLatin America | MercadoLibreStelleo Tolda+7 | — | 1h 10m 03s | |
| 3/3/26 |  Hernan Kazah, Kaszek: Building LatAm’s $100B+ Companies✨ | venture capitalLatin America+4 | Hernan Kazah | Kaszek VenturesNubank+4 | — | venture capitalLATAM startups+5 | — | 1h 28m 06s | |
| 12/23/25 | Paulo Passoni, Valor Capital: Speed Is the Last AI Moat✨ | AIinvestment+4 | Paulo Passoni | Valor CapitalNubank+12 | LATAM | AI moatinvestment+5 | — | 1h 17m 02s | |
| 12/10/25 | Dileep Thazhmon (Jeeves) & Bruno Maimone (Warburg Pincus)✨ | corporate cardsexpense management+4 | Dileep ThazhmonBruno Maimone | JeevesWarburg Pincus | BrazilMexico+2 | JeevesWarburg Pincus+8 | — | 48m 46s | |
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| 11/26/25 | Roberto Dagnoni (Mercado Bitcoin), Ben Lizana (SoftBank)✨ | crypto adoptionLatin America+5 | Roberto DagnoniBen Lizana | Mercado BitcoinSoftBank+1 | São Paulo | cryptoLatin America+5 | — | 1h 01m 57s | |
| 11/12/25 | Olga Maslikhova: 4 LATAM Founders Who Turned Chaos Into Moats | Olga Maslikhova, Founder and Host of The J Curve, breaks down what four Latin American founders did differently — Daniel Vogel (Bitso, $2.2B), Caique Carvalho (Gringo, $200M exit to Corpay), Tiago Dalvi (Olist, $10B GMV), and Piero Contezini (Asaas, 37 revenue streams). This is a strategic debrief on why the friction that makes emerging markets “too hard” is exactly what makes them defensible.We cover the infrastructure decision of when to build from scratch versus orchestrate what exists and why control beats features in volatile markets, the contrarian bet that won Mexico as Bitso ignored the entire crypto industry’s narrative and built the bridge instead, the tattoo marketplace that failed and what Caique learned about the difference between problems people tolerate and problems they’ll pay to eliminate, the pivot that required courage as Tiago offered to return investor money and what that decision revealed about founder clarity, distribution as product design and why Gringo built for WhatsApp first, the four-layer playbook behind how Asaas went from “help SMBs get paid” to 37 revenue streams, the M&A playbook behind Olist’s four-step integration strategy, and why 2,600 hours on taxes equals $185M raised — the value of inefficiency and why vertical SaaS works differently in Latin America than anywhere else.This is a masterclass in seeing opportunity where others see impossibility.Subscribe to The J Curve Insider Newsletter for deeper insights and follow Olga on LinkedIn and Instagram. | — | ||||||
| 10/28/25 | Daniel Vogel, Bitso: LatAm’s First $2.2B Crypto Unicorn | Daniel Vogel is Co-Founder and CEO of Bitso — Latin America’s first crypto unicorn, valued at $2.2B and serving millions of users across Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, and Colombia.In this conversation, Daniel shares the pilot’s mindset of leadership and what flying small planes taught him about control, composure, and crisis management, the risk paradox of building in volatile markets from a culture defined by risk-aversion, the product decision that killed the competition — how owning the tech stack became Bitso’s unseen edge, the end game of crypto and why Daniel thinks AI agents will eat the crypto market before humans do, and the paradox of rivalry that turned competition into Bitso’s great source of discipline and growth.Subscribe to The J Curve Insider Newsletter for deeper insights and follow Olga on LinkedIn and Instagram. | — | ||||||
| 10/14/25 | Caique Carvalho, Gringo: The $200M WhatsApp MVP Exit | Caique Carvalho is Co-Founder and former Chief Product Officer of Gringo — a Brazilian super app for drivers that was acquired by Sem Parar (owned by NYSE-listed Corpay) for approximately $200M. Before Gringo, Caique built two failed startups that taught him everything about product-market fit.In this episode, Caique shares the hard lessons behind two failed startups and how they shaped his approach to product-market fit, the principles of great UX and why listening to customers isn’t enough, the 80/20 rule of growth and why mastering one acquisition channel drove most of Gringo’s traction, the business-model decisions that turned a WhatsApp MVP into a platform processing billions of reais in transactions annually, the art of building a cap table with Kaszek, VEF, and Valor Capital for their complementary strengths, and the culture principles that helped the team scale without losing its startup DNA.Subscribe to The J Curve Insider Newsletter for deeper insights and follow Olga on LinkedIn and Instagram. | — | ||||||
| 10/1/25 | Piero Contezini, Asaas: The 37-Revenue-Stream Brazilian Fintech | Piero Contezini is Founder and Executive Chairman of Asaas — a Brazilian fintech platform serving thousands of SMBs, processing billions in payments, and backed by SoftBank, Bond, and Bradesco. Asaas has evolved from a Stripe-for-Brazil experiment into a full-stack financial operating system with 37 revenue streams.In this episode, Piero shares why service companies can’t scale like product companies, how one SME pain point grew into 37 revenue streams, the fintech monetization model tied directly to customer success, the radical culture rules that shaped Asaas (8-hour workdays and a zero-bug policy), and how PIX and Open Finance reshaped Brazil’s fintech landscape.Subscribe to The J Curve Insider Newsletter for deeper insights and follow Olga on LinkedIn and Instagram. | — | ||||||
| 9/9/25 | Julio Vasconcellos, Atlantico: Brazil vs Mexico for LPs | Julio Vasconcellos is Managing Partner at Atlantico — a leading Latin American venture firm and publisher of the Latin America Digital Transformation Report, now in its 6th edition. Julio was previously Facebook’s first country lead in Brazil and co-founder of Peixe Urbano.In this episode, Julio unpacks why local LATAM VC funds have quietly outperformed global peers and what it will take to attract more LP capital, why Mexico is suddenly attracting Sequoia, Founders Fund, and a16z capital and what it means for investors placing their first bets, the geopolitics of tech and what’s driving the 39% of Brazilians who say they’d align with China over the U.S., Pix’s relentless rise with 87% corporate penetration and $15B in fee savings and what it means for Visa, Mastercard, and fintechs, Brazil’s AI moment following Microsoft’s $2.7B AI/cloud investment, and the founder archetypes Atlantico’s research identifies as most likely to win in Latin America.Subscribe to The J Curve Insider Newsletter for deeper insights and follow Olga on LinkedIn or Instagram. | — | ||||||
| 8/26/25 | Tiago Dalvi, Olist: Building Brazil’s $10B GMV Platform | Tiago Dalvi is the solo founder and CEO of Olist — Brazil’s leading e-commerce operating system, serving 45,000+ merchants and processing 60 billion reais annually in Brazil’s $60B+ e-commerce market. Olist has raised $314M from SoftBank, Wellington Management, Goldman Sachs, Valor Capital Group, and Accel partner Kevin Efrusy.In this episode, Tiago shares how Olist went from a single storefront to a multi-product operating system for 45,000+ merchants, the three pillars of high-performing boards and why the best ones keep evolving, the M&A integration playbook including why protecting new acquisitions from the gravitational pull of core operations is critical and why earnouts are so tricky to get right, Olist’s vision of intelligent commerce and how AI-powered decision-making could reshape SMB operations across Latin America’s fragmented ecosystem, and the investor breakup playbook — why Tiago parts ways with board members he “really likes,” what tough conversations are required when someone who got you to $10M isn’t right for $100M, and how secondaries help recycle the cap table without burning bridges.Subscribe to The J Curve Insider Newsletter for deeper insights and follow Olga on LinkedIn or Instagram. | — | ||||||
| 8/12/25 | Olga Maslikhova: Why 90% of LATAM Founders Fail at VC | Olga Maslikhova, Founder and Host of The J Curve, breaks down why 90% of LATAM founders struggle to raise venture capital — and the patterns behind every major success story from Nubank to QuintoAndar. This isn’t about product or market — it’s about understanding the game VCs are actually playing. Olga covers the fund economics that drive every investment decision, the founder profiles that get fast-tracked, the three business models that dominate portfolios, the four-element framework for stacking the odds in your favor, why fundraising is actually B2B sales, how to evaluate VCs before they evaluate you, and the exit math that determines premium outcomes.We cover the Goldman/McKinsey pattern — why the majority of funded LATAM founders share investment banking or top consulting backgrounds, and how to borrow credibility if you don’t have it, the fund math reality check — how a $300M fund needs $6B+ outcomes from single deals and why this changes everything about what VCs actually fund, the Stanford platform mindset of shifting from “solving problems” to “designing market architecture,” market timing and how 2012’s 3G+smartphones created unicorns while 2025’s Pix+AI+Open Finance could be bigger, the 4-element fundable startup framework (backable founder profile + compounding business model + broken market + perfect timing), fundraising as B2B sales and why treating VCs as prospects with systematic qualification and follow-up changes outcomes, the venture capital fund cycle and how a $100M fund in year 2 beats a $500M fund in year 8, and the multi-country premium — why regional businesses price higher than local ones and how to build global buyer optionality from day one.Subscribe to The J Curve Insider Newsletter and follow Olga on LinkedIn or Instagram. | — | ||||||
| 8/6/25 | Pismo Roundtable — Daniela Binatti, Pismo: How We Sold to Visa for $1B | Daniela Binatti is Co-Founder and CTO of Pismo — acquired by Visa for $1B cash. Carlos Costa is Managing Partner at Valor Capital ($2B+ AUM), early investor in CloudWalk ($2.15B valuation), Wellhub ($2.2B valuation), and Pismo ($1B exit). Romero Rodrigues sold Buscapé to Naspers for $374M and is now Managing Partner at Headline, with early bets on Pismo and Wellhub. Recorded live in São Paulo with AWS, this roundtable covers the exact strategies behind three of Latin America’s most consequential $1B+ exits.We cover the “bonds vs options” framework — how Brazilian companies use stable local cash flow to fund aggressive global expansion bets, why LATAM-to-LATAM expansion is a trap with the same operational complexity as global markets but negligible valuation impact, the 25-year compounding curve and why Pismo’s real growth phase began after the $1B acquisition, global infrastructure strategy and why multi-country, multi-currency architecture must be built from day one rather than retrofitted later, the market education playbook behind converting banks from on-premise skeptics to SaaS believers across 78 countries, the Brazil advantage of pressure-testing global-ready products in a 150M+ user domestic market, and when borderless business models should skip local validation entirely.Subscribe to The J Curve Insider Newsletter for deeper insights and follow Olga on LinkedIn or Instagram. | — | ||||||
| 7/29/25 | Vitor Asseituno, Sami: How We 3x’d Margins in $60B Market | Vitor Asseituno is CEO and Co-Founder of Sami — Brazil’s fastest-growing health insurance startup, serving 20,000+ customers across 11 Brazilian cities in the $60B private health insurance market. Sami has raised $65M in total funding.In this episode, Vitor shares the “pipeline mathematics” behind turning 100+ VC rejections into a Series B raise, investor psychology and what resonates when pitching complex healthcare business models, how embracing broker networks after everyone said “avoid them” drives 50%+ of Sami’s sales, AI workflow implementation delivering $800+ monthly savings per clinician and 30% EMR compliance improvement, the loss ratio optimization tactics that cut losses from 85% to 53% of premiums, and why regional focus beats national scale in Brazil’s complex healthcare market.Subscribe to The J Curve Insider Newsletter and follow Olga on LinkedIn or Instagram. | — | ||||||
| 7/1/25 | Federico Vega (Frete.com) on Cracking Network Effects in a $100B Legacy Freight Market | Welcome to Season 4 of The J Curve with me, Olga Maslikhova.This week, I sit down with Federico Vega, founder and CEO of Frete.com—the largest freight matching platform in Latin America.Federico’s story is anything but conventional: he grew up in a small town in Patagonia, left a career in investment banking at JP Morgan in London, and moved—without speaking the language—to Brazil to reinvent an entire industry. What started as a Facebook group for truck drivers has evolved into a logistics giant, processing nearly $18 billion in freight transactions annually and serving ~900,000 active drivers—roughly 80% of Brazil’s entire trucking fleet.In this episode, Federico shares how Frete.comsolved the classic chicken-and-egg dilemma, scaled a fragmented industry from the ground up, and transformed Brazilian complexity into a competitive moat. It’s a masterclass in grit, product obsession, and doing things that don’t scale.Here’s what we cover:How to break network effects open in traditional industriesWhy doing unscalable things early creates lasting strategic edgeWhat Brazilian truck stops taught Federico about product designHow to use AI and data to combat fraud and drive operational leverageThe culture-building playbook behind Frete.com’s growthFor founders building in complex markets—and investors betting on logistics and fintech as the future—this episode is a must-listen.More from us: Subscribe to our weekly newsletter The J Curve Insider, where we go beyond the podcast to break down the most exciting investment & tech trends in LATAM. Sharp. Concise. Real business strategies and market insights you won’t find anywhere else. Delivered straight to your inbox.Follow us on LinkedIn or Instagram | — | ||||||
| 6/17/25 | Olga Maslikhova, Host of The J Curve: LATAM’s Volatility Builds Better Operators | Welcome to this special solo episode of Season 4 of The J Curve with me, Olga Maslikhova.Every few months, I zoom out to reflect on the lessons that stuck with me from the show. Think of this as your quarterly operator’s memo—especially if you’re building, raising, or investing in Latin America.Q2 was full of sharp insights and real operator depth. But in this edition of The J Curve Insider, I won’t recap every episode.I’ll go deep into three. João Del Valle (EBANX), Mike Packer (QED), and Gustavo Mapeli (Kanastra).We’ll unpack EBANX’s global growth playbook, explore how QED built conviction around LATAM as an outsider VC—and what they’re betting on next—and break down how Kanastra scaled by defying startup orthodoxy.Here’s what I’ll get into:→ In LATAM, complexity isn’t a bug—it’s the moat.→ Revenue is the best anti-dilution strategy.→ In frontier markets, global expansion is a risk management.→ Outsiders win in LATAM when they think like founders: test, learn, commit.→ Multi-product vs. single-product: what founders need to ask before picking a lane.If you enjoy today’s episode, please rate us on Spotify, subscribe to our newsletter at blog.thejcurve.com, and follow us on YouTube (@thejcurvepodcast) and Instagram (@olgamaslikhova).Let’s get into it. | — | ||||||
| 6/3/25 | Caetano Lacerda & Raphael Dyxklay (Barte) on How to Win Mid-to-Large B2B Customers in Latin America | Welcome to Season 4 of The J Curve with me, Olga Maslikhova.This week, I sit down with Caetano Lacerda and Raphael Dyxklay, co-founders of Brazilian fintech Barte, which is transforming the payments and working capital landscape for mid-to-large companies.Barte’s journey is a masterclass in efficient growth: from zero to $10M ARR in less than two years on just $1.5M of burn—and then growing sustainably to $20M ARR. Along the way, they’ve pioneered a build-in-public strategy that attracts customers, builds trust, and fosters engagement. They’ve also developed sharp insights into segmenting by use case rather than industry, prioritizing speed and first-principles thinking, and leveraging customer feedback to scale efficiently—insights that have become part of their DNA and that they generously share in this conversation.Here’s what we cover:What founders need to know about horizontal vs. vertical strategies in B2BWhy building in public is more than a marketing tactic—it’s a B2B growth engineHow to find product-market fit in fragmented, high-friction industriesWhat Brazilian complexity taught Barte about opportunity and executionLessons in prioritizing product bets when everything feels urgentThis episode is the second in a special three-part series brought to you by AWS.AWS has become a key growth partner for Latin America’s startup ecosystem—helping founders scale from idea to IPO with world-class cloud infrastructure, local expertise, and a global support network. We’re incredibly happy to partner with them.For founders and investors who see Latin America’s friction as an opportunity—and fintech as the future—this conversation is a must-listen.More from us: Subscribe to our weekly newsletter The J Curve Insider, where we go beyond the podcast to break down the most exciting investment & tech trends in LATAM. Sharp. Concise. Real business strategies and market insights you won’t find anywhere else. Delivered straight to your inbox.Follow us on LinkedIn or Instagram | — | ||||||
| 5/20/25 | João Del Valle, EBANX: Cross-Border Payments in 29 Countries | Del Valle is Co-Founder and CEO of EBANX — one of Latin America’s most iconic fintech stories, processing billions in cross-border payments across 29 countries and powering transactions for Spotify, AliExpress, and Shein. EBANX is backed by Advent International in one of the firm’s largest-ever tech deals. Founded in Curitiba, outside Brazil’s traditional tech hub, EBANX was built global-by-design from day one.In this episode, João shares how regulatory and payment complexity became core to EBANX’s GTM playbook, what 2022–2023 taught him about discipline and founder-mode leadership, how he leads distributed teams across the U.S., China, and Latin America, what it means to scale sustainably without blitzscaling, and tactical insight on navigating cross-border regulation, local payment rails, and real-time systems like Pix and UPI.Subscribe to our weekly newsletter The J Curve Insider for deeper insights and follow Olga on LinkedIn or Instagram. | — | ||||||
| 5/6/25 | Mike Packer (QED) on the Post-2021 Reset—and Why AI-Driven Platforms Win | Welcome to Season 4 of The J Curve with me, Olga Maslikhova.Last week I got to spend a few days in cidade maravilhosa—Rio de Janeiro—for Web Summit, which this year attracted over 37,000 people. The event was action-packed—both inside the venue and across the city, with an incredible lineup of side events.It was a milestone week for The J Curve. We recorded our very first live episode on stage—a conversation I’ve been wanting to have for a long time, and the one we’re releasing today: a live interview with Mike Packer, partner at QED Investors.QED is the legendary firm founded by Frank Rotman and Nigel Morris—the creators of Capital One and pioneers of data-driven credit long before it became mainstream. They’ve been betting on Latin America for over a decade. Their first investment in the region was Nubank, now the most valuable digital bank in the world.Here’s what we cover:— Why growth capital is the new frontier in LatAm— What makes a founder truly fundable in 2025+— AI’s real impact across QED’s portfolio— What it really takes to IPO from LatAm— The vertical SaaS trap—and the case for vertical AIMore from us: Subscribe to our weekly newsletter The J Curve Insider, where we go beyond the podcast to break down the most exciting investment & tech trends in LATAM. Sharp. Concise. Real business strategies and market insights you won’t find anywhere else. Delivered straight to your inbox.Follow us on LinkedIn or Instagram | — | ||||||
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