Trends in Emerging Markets with Martín Escobari

Masters in Business

Bloomberg

Business, Investing

4.4 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Barry speaks with Martín Escobari, Co-President and Head of Global Growth Equity at General Atlantic. Prior to joining General Atlantic in 2012, Martín served as Managing Director at Advent International and Co-Founder and CFO of Submarino.com, a leading Brazilian online retailer. He also spent time with The Boston Consulting Group. In addition to his current role, Martín is also Chair of General Atlantic's Global Growth Equity Investment Committee and he serves on the Executive and Portfolio Committees as well. On this episode, Barry and Martín discuss the challenges he faced as an entrepreneur, his time at General Atlantic, and the macro picture in South America.

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0:53.6	Martine Escobari has an amazing background that ultimately led him to be co-president,
1:00.8	head of global growth equity and head of the Investment Committee at Private Equity Giant
1:07.1	General Atlantic.
1:08.9	They run over $100 billion.
1:10.5	The background in the story is fascinating
1:14.0	from duty-free shops to the Atlantic philanthropies. Those were set up in 1960 and 1980,
1:21.5	respectively. And over the ensuing 45 years, they just have carved their own path and created their own expertise. They're
1:30.9	kind of unique amongst the global private equity or even domestic private equity players,
1:36.7	and that half of their people, half of their capital is invested overseas. Kind of unusual
1:42.3	in that space. Martine has just an amazing background. Born in Bolivia, built a company in Brazil, educated in the United States. Just really, there are a few people better situated to describe what it's like being a growth equity investor, meaning you're not investing in startups,
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