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Building Sales Teams in Mexico: Mario Oliveros Figueroa on LATAM Talent & Cross-Border Selling
Jun 24, 2026
29m 04s
Victor Fernandes Spent 7 Years Automating Power Plants. Now He Builds Data Platforms.
Jun 15, 2026
22m 20s
H1B Hiring Reality Check
Jun 15, 2026
32m 01s
Nearshoring Yourself; step by step to building an expat life in Mexico
May 6, 2026
31m 31s
Scaling high-performing teams in Costa Rica staffing legend Doug Firestone on growing to 225 LATAM
Apr 27, 2026
27m 57s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6/24/26 | Building Sales Teams in Mexico: Mario Oliveros Figueroa on LATAM Talent & Cross-Border Selling | Mario Oliveros Figueroa has spent his career doing one thing: building sales teams across Latin America. Today he's the Global Director of Latin America at Niyamo, one of the largest payroll services companies in the region. In this conversation, we get into the "sales triangle" of Mexico's three business cities, how sales talent differs from Colombia to Argentina to Brazil, the AI tools changing the game for outbound teams, and what U.S. companies almost always get wrong when they first try ... | 29m 04s | ||||||
| 6/15/26 | Victor Fernandes Spent 7 Years Automating Power Plants. Now He Builds Data Platforms. | Victor Fernandes is a data platform engineer from Fortaleza, Brazil — and his path to get there is unlike anything I've heard before. Seven and a half years automating power plants and steel factories, then a single phone call in 2021 that pulled him into the data world. We talk about what it's like building for U.S. teams from Northeast Brazil, the cultural shock of his first American standup, and how he thinks about AI on production systems. You'll come away with a very different picture of... | 22m 20s | ||||||
| 6/15/26 | H1B Hiring Reality Check | The H1B conversation is loud, political, and often full of half-truths, so we wanted a clean, practical breakdown from someone who has lived it from the staffing side. We sit down with Robert Richard, Chief Digital Officer at Tier 4 Group and the creator behind the H1B Guy, to talk about what is actually happening inside high-skilled immigration and the labor market right now. We unpack how H1B hiring works in the real world, including the staffing agency supply chain, why sponsorship became... | 32m 01s | ||||||
| 5/6/26 | Nearshoring Yourself; step by step to building an expat life in Mexico✨ | expat lifenearshoring+4 | Jen | Expatsi | U.S.Mérida, Mexico+2 | expatMexico+6 | — | 31m 31s | |
| 4/27/26 | Scaling high-performing teams in Costa Rica staffing legend Doug Firestone on growing to 225 LATAM✨ | IT staffingnearshoring+3 | Doug Firestone | IBMAmazon+1 | Costa RicaPennsylvania | IT staffingnearshoring+7 | — | 27m 57s | |
| 4/2/26 | Why Chile Wins & Brazil is Complex: A Founder's Guide to LATAM✨ | business in Latin Americafinancial leadership+3 | Brendan Quirk | LACPA | ChileBrazil+2 | Latin Americabusiness+4 | — | 27m 44s | |
| 3/20/26 | AI agents aren’t plug-and-play and that’s where most companies get it wrong.✨ | AI agentsbusiness environments+4 | Oleg Baranov | FlameTree AI | — | AI agentsbusiness+5 | — | 23m 50s | |
| 3/16/26 | Venezuela: The Most Exciting High-Risk Talent Market?✨ | Venezuelatalent market+4 | — | — | VenezuelaLatin America | Venezuelatalent market+4 | — | 11m 20s | |
| 2/28/26 | How A Founder Built A 24/7 Call Center In Latin America✨ | call centeroutsourcing+4 | Joe Helleny | CourtMoney | Central AmericaNicaragua | call centernearshore+5 | — | 23m 25s | |
| 2/23/26 | Doing Business in Medellín, Colombia (Expat Founder Story)✨ | business in Colombiaexpat entrepreneurship+3 | Chad Smalley | — | PanamaColombia+2 | MedellínColombia+6 | — | 27m 32s | |
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| 2/5/26 | Latin America M&A Outlook 2026: Deal Trends, Risk Architecture, and Nearshoring Opportunities✨ | M&A landscapeinvestor confidence+3 | JP TrouillotAlan Riddell | KPMGKPMG Brazil | Latin America | M&ALatin America+4 | — | 30m 44s | |
| 2/2/26 | AI Automation Without the Hype. Real Nearshore Workflows That Scale✨ | AI automationnearshore workflows+3 | Marvin Martinez | Bandsaw AI | — | AIautomation+5 | Plugg Technologies | 27m 58s | |
| 1/10/26 | Discover how nearshore hiring is evolving in 2026✨ | nearshore hiringoffshoring+4 | Ruben Santana | Plugg Technologies | Latin AmericaMexico+1 | nearshore hiringoffshoring+4 | — | 26m 48s | |
| 1/2/26 | From Zero To Onboarded In 14 Days | How fast can companies build high-performing nearshore teams? In this episode of The Nearshore Cafe Podcast, host Brian Samson, Founder of Plugg Technologies, explains how U.S. companies can go from zero to fully onboarded nearshore talent in as little as 14 days. Brian breaks down why nearshoring in Latin America outperforms traditional offshoring, focusing on time zone alignment, communication, cultural fit, and long-term performance. He shares real-world hiring insights from countries like... | 26m 29s | ||||||
| 1/2/26 | Nearshoring in 2025: Top 7 FAQs About Hiring LATAM Talent Answered by Brian Samson | Thinking about nearshoring? Wondering how it compares to outsourcing, offshoring, or onshoring? In this value-packed episode of The Nearshore Cafe Podcast, host Brian Samson — CEO of Plugg Technologies — answers the 7 most frequently asked questions about nearshoring in 2025. From cost savings of 40–70%, to real-time collaboration with Latin American developers, Brian explains how nearshoring can help U.S. companies scale tech teams quickly and affordably without sacrificing quality or ... | 14m 43s | ||||||
| 12/18/25 | Building a Fintech Startup in the Dominican Republic | 🎙 The Nearshore Cafe Podcast | In this episode of The Nearshore Cafe Podcast, host Brian Samson sits down with Ricky Michel, founder of Ualett, to talk about building a fintech company from the Dominican Republic—and why the gig worker and rideshare driver economy is still underserved by traditional banks. Ricky shares how Ualettwas founded in 2018, how the team designed a mobile-first, low-friction liquidity experience by spending time directly with drivers, and why trust and empathy are essential when building financial ... | 26m 46s | ||||||
| 12/11/25 | Plaid for LATAM, Prometeo, Uruguay fintech, real-time payments, open banking, scaling fintech in Latin America. | In this episode of The Nearshore Cafe Podcast, host Brian Samson sits down with Ximena “Xime” Aleman, Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Prometeo, one of Latin America’s leading fintech infrastructure companies. Xime shares her unlikely journey from journalism to fintech entrepreneurship, and how her storytelling background became a strategic advantage in building a company that now connects 1,000+ financial institutions across 11 countries. Xime breaks down how Latin America’s financial ecosystem re... | 31m 30s | ||||||
| 11/14/25 | Inside LATAM’s Fintech Boom: Investing, Wealthtech, and Nearshoring with Agustín Guerra | In this episode of The Nearshore Cafe Podcast, host Brian Samson sits down with Agustín Guerra, CEO & Co-Founder of Vangwe, to explore one of the fastest-growing sectors in the region: Latin America’s fintech and wealthtech ecosystem. Agustín shares his global journey from Montevideo to China, Germany, Poland, London, and the Netherlands, and how living across continents shaped his perspective as a fintech founder. He discusses the early days of LATAM fintech, the rise of digital payments... | 27m 36s | ||||||
| 10/31/25 | The Nearshore Shift: How LATAM Became the Future of Global Staffing | The Nearshore Cafe Podcast | Global hiring is shifting — fast. In 2025, U.S. companies are moving away from India and Asia, turning instead to Latin America for tech talent, loyalty, and time-zone alignment. In this episode of The Nearshore Cafe Podcast, host Brian Samson, Founder of Plugg Technologies, talks with Evan Greenberg, Director of Client Solutions at Plugg, about what’s really driving this transformation. They discuss the massive rise in nearshoring, how AI and data roles are reshaping recruiting, and why Mexi... | 23m 12s | ||||||
| 10/27/25 | The Trump Administration’s H1B Hike Is Pushing Mid-Level Roles Nearshore And Changing Global Outsourcing | Host Brian Samson, founder of Plugg Technologies, breaks down the Trump administration’s proposed $100K H-1B visa fee and how it’s reshaping the global tech talent market. He explains why this massive policy shift could reduce opportunities for engineers in India and China—and accelerate the nearshoring movement across Latin America. Brian dives into the geopolitical motivations, trade tensions, and economic ripple effects driving this change, from BRICS alliances to U.S. labor shortages. He ... | 11m 19s | ||||||
| 10/16/25 | How Leadership, Culture, and Nearshoring Fuel Business Growth in Latin America | Host Brian Samson talks with Denis Champagne, a Fractional CRO and Strength Coach, about how leadership, culture, and adaptability drive nearshore success across Latin America. Denis shares his journey from growing up bilingual in Canada to discovering the depth and resilience of Latin American culture through language, travel, and business. Together, they explore how empathy, communication, and cultural intelligence shape stronger remote teams and meaningful professional relationships. Denis... | 24m 58s | ||||||
| 7/2/25 | 🚀 $50M Series A Tech Startup Scales Fast with Nearshore Talent | Brian Samson | Plugg.tech | 🎙️ The Nearshore Cafe Podcast | Hosted by Brian Samson In this episode, Brian Samson — founder of Plugg Technologies and host of The Nearshore Cafe Podcast — shares a powerful success story from a booming Series A tech startup based in Atlanta. With over $50 million raised, this company had the resources to hire from anywhere in the world. But instead of battling the fierce 2022 Silicon Valley talent wars, they chose a smarter path: senior full-stack developers from Latin America. 💡 Hear how ... | 2m 21s | ||||||
| 6/18/25 | Can a Business Analyst in Mexico really support a U.S. tech team just as well—or better—than someone in Silicon Valley? 🌎 | In this episode of The Nearshore Cafe Podcast, host Brian Samson (founder of Plugg Technologies) dives deep with Fernando Soto, a senior Business Analyst working remotely from Guadalajara, Mexico. From humble roots in Tijuana to leading global tech projects, Fernando reveals the real story of life as a nearshore tech professional. 📉 Laid off after 16 years at HP. 🚀 Reinvented his career through remote work. 🌐 Now shaping product success for U.S. companies from Mexico. 🎯 What You’ll Learn: •... | 25m 30s | ||||||
| 6/12/25 | How a San Francisco Startup Cut Dev Costs 60% with LATAM Engineers | Nearshoring Success | What happens when a Series B startup in San Francisco realizes they’re paying over $200K per year for a remote engineer—and getting no extra value from being in the Bay Area? They go nearshore. And they win. Big. In this episode of The Nearshore Cafe Podcast, host Brian Samson (Founder of Plugg Technologies) shares the true story of how one founder turned to LATAM developers to scale faster, cut costs, and build better—without sacrificing time zone alignment, communication, or talent qu... | 2m 56s | ||||||
| 5/28/25 | Building a $6M Remote Sales Operation in Colombia 🎙 The Nearshore Cafe Podcast | In this episode of The Nearshore Cafe Podcast, host Brian Samson, founder of Plugg Technologies, chats with Amir Reiter, CEO of CloudTask, about how Medellín, Colombia has become a hidden gem for building high-performing global sales teams. From building his first team in an Airbnb to scaling a $6M+ revenue operation with over 265 contractors, Amir shares how CloudTask evolved from a service agency into a full-blown B2B marketplace for GTM (go-to-market) talent and software. They dive deep in... | 25m 42s | ||||||
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