Pioneering fintech in Uruguay, with Mateo Infantozzi (Prezzta and Octa.dev)

How to Lend Money to Strangers

Brendan le Grange

Credit, Fintech, Management, Lending, Banking, Business, Careers

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🗓️ 22 December 2022

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

In one way, it's slightly surprising that Mateo Infantozzi Riembau was a fintech founder. Not because there were no signs of entrepreneurial thinking, but because his early successes came from the travel industry. And yet he's done it twice, at a time were "there was little room for startups in Uruguay, and even less room for fintechs". But local innovators have changed that quickly. Now "fintech is sexy", and Mateo and his co-founders played a significant role in that change.

You can find Prezzta at https://www.prezzta.com/ (or on LinkedIn)

You can find Octa at https://www.octa.dev/ (or on LinkedIn)

You can learn more about myself, Brendan le Grange, on my LinkedIn page (feel free to connect). The show has its own page there, too, and is also present, but less active, on Instagram and Twitter using the @HTLMTS handle. My action-adventure novels are on Amazon, some versions even for free, and my work with ConfirmU and our gamified psychometric scores is at https://confirmu.com/ and on episode 24 of this very show https://www.howtolendmoneytostrangers.show/episodes/episode-24

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Brendan

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0:00.0	From the borrower side, it's an evil man.
0:04.8	But for the lenders, we had to build this trust by showing all the cards.
0:11.5	Sometimes you're going to win, sometimes you're going to lose.
0:15.1	We were not granting any loan.
0:17.9	It's your risk.
0:19.0	And you have to trust that I'm going to do all my efforts to get that money for you.
0:24.3	On the 2nd of July 2010, I was one of 84,017 people inside Soweto Soccer City Stadium.
0:37.2	If I had to guess, 84,000 of us were rooting for Ghana.
0:41.1	South Africa had already been eliminated from the tournament, so they were the day factor
0:45.4	home team.
0:46.4	And we were buzzing.
0:47.6	Ghana had gone into the lead seconds before half time, then Uruguay had equalized, and
0:52.0	now we were deep into extra time, and the Black Stars had been awarded a free kick in an
0:56.4	attacking position on the right.
0:58.2	The initial cross was flicked on, leading to some scrappy play in front of goal, until
1:02.8	suddenly, as if scripted, the ball bounced kindly for Dominic Adaya, who smashed it home
1:08.9	to put Ghana into the semifinals.
1:11.3	And I won't sanction any other version of history.
1:14.8	Until recently, that's all I knew of Uruguay.
1:18.1	But no more.
1:19.4	Welcome to How To Lend Money to Strangers, with Brennan Lagrange.
1:26.4	Mateo Infantosi, co-founder of Priester and co-founder of Octa.dev.
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