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Nathan Latka

Ceo, Entrepreneurs, Founders, Software, Business, Entrepreneurship, Saas, Startups

4.6 • 683 Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2018

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Santi is a General Partner at Emergence Capital. Prior to joining Emergence, Santi founded, AXG Tecnonexo, a SaaS e-learning company in Latin America. He expanded the company to 150+ employees with operations across Latin America and the US. Santi is also a founding board member of Puente Labs, an organization that finds and selects the best founders of high potential growth companies from Latin America and helps them scale their businesses globally. Santi currently serves on the Boards of Civitas Learning, CrunchBase, High Alpha, Quasar, Restorando, Tophat, Xapo and Zoom. Santi received an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School and holds a BS in Economics from St. Andrew's University in Argentina. He is Kauffman Fellow and an Endeavor Entrepreneur.
Outside of work Santi is passionate about traveling internationally. He spent 6 months backpacking around the world and continues to work on a personal goal of visiting at least 50% of the world countries. He is an avid opera and classical music follower and, like almost every Argentine, he is passionate about soccer.

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0:00.0	This is the top entrepreneurs podcast where founders share how they started their companies and got
0:06.9	filthy rich or crash and burn. Each episode features revenue numbers, customer counts, and other
0:16.1	insider information that creates business news headlines. We went from a couple hundred thousand dollars to two point seven million.
0:23.6	I had no money when I started the company.
0:25.6	It was a hundred and sixty million dollars which is the size of any IPOs.
0:29.6	We're a bit strapped.
0:30.6	We have like 22,000 customers.
0:33.6	With over five million downloads in a very short amount of time,
0:38.6	major outlets like Inc are calling us the fastest growing business show on iTunes.
0:43.6	I'm your host, Nathan Latka, and here's today's episode.
0:48.8	Good morning, everybody.
0:50.2	My guest today is Santi Subatovsky.
0:52.5	He is currently a general partner at Emergence Capital,
0:55.8	but before going to the dark side, he had founded AXG Technoexo, which was a SaaS e-learning company
1:02.1	in Latin America. He expanded the company to 150 employees with operations across Latin America
1:06.5	and the U.S. He also is a founding board member of Puente Labs, an organization that finds and selects
1:11.6	the best founders and high potential growth companies from Latin America and helps them scale globally.
1:16.6	He currently serves on the boards of Civitas Learning, Crunchbase, High Alpha, Quasar, Restaurantonado, Top Hat, Zapo, and Zoom, the popular video conferencing software.
1:28.0	Santi, are you ready to take us to the top?
1:30.4	Yeah, thank you very much, Nathan, for having me.
1:32.5	It's just pleasure.
1:33.7	All right, so pick a baby here.
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