Viewpoints

I attended the recently held (April 22-24) Brazil at Silicon Valley conference. It was very enjoyable and entertaining to be together with more than 500 Brazilian […]

“The time to buy is when there’s blood in the streets” — Baron Rothschild It seems obvious, but it is against human psychology. It does not […]

“Brazil is agro”. This has been the official propaganda. In some sense that is true, the Brazilian economy is quite dependent on agribusiness (and on mineral […]

Crunchbase recently published a list of US startup (venture-backed) exits — IPOs, Direct Listings, SPACs, and M&As — valued at $1B or more. Below are some of the statistics […]

In 2021 there were 175 US VC-backed IPOs, while in 2022 this number dropped to 14 (Jay R. Ritter). What does explain the 2022 IPO window […]

Capitalism has been gone a long time ago with the end of the gold standard (to the fiat standard), the development of the banking fractional reserve […]

We have written extensively about why startups are staying private longer and how it represents a wealth generation shift from public to private markets. Besides market […]

Doug Leone was the Sequoia Capital’s managing partner that led its expansion to China and India. In an interview at Stanford in 2014, “Luck & Taking […]

“Originating from Greek mythology, and much of Roman mythology, Centaurs symbolize masculinity, and are supposed to be brave, loyal warriors”. When the term unicorn was coined […]