How Pomelo Is Rebuilding Fintech Infrastructure in LATAM

About this episode

Sasha Pilch interviews Gaston Irigoyen about Pomelo's approach to fintech infrastructure in Latin America.

Host Sasha Pilch sits down with Gaston Irigoyen, co-founder and CEO of Pomelo, to unpack why waiting a full year to launch a card program became the startup thesis behind one of Latin America’s fastest-growing fintech infrastructure companies. Drawing from his experience scaling fintech in LATAM, Gaston shares how infrastructure bottlenecks around issuing, processing, and credit card management pushed Pomelo to rethink how modern payments infrastructure should work. The conversation explores ...

People in this episode

Host: Sasha Pilch

Guest: Gaston Irigoyen

Topics covered

• fintech
• infrastructure
• payments
• Latin America
• startup
• credit card management

Keywords

• Pomelo
• fintech infrastructure
• LATAM
• payments
• credit card management
• startup thesis
• Gaston Irigoyen

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Pomelo

Places: LATAM

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