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About Rodrigo:
Rodrigo is a serial entrepreneur, investor, and the founder of Outsized VC. Born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Rodrigo dropped out of law school just weeks before graduation to start his first company. Over the next decade, he built, crashed, and sold several technology companies in Latin America. In 2017, Rodrigo joined SOSV, the world's most active deep tech fund, as a Partner. During his four years at SOSV, he invested in 43 companies. In 2021, he decided to strike out on his own and raised his own venture capital fund, building the firm that he wished he had when he was an entrepreneur. Currently based in London, Rodrigo spends his days seeking out exceptional people doing exceptional things and investing in their ideas.
In this episode we talk about what is deep tech, why is deep tech a bad term, what moves the world forward, is design important in moving the world forward, differentiating between what you think people need vs what people truly need, the toughest part of building a company, should founders raise vc money, what is the need of raising money, what type of founders should raise vc money, should vc money be treated as a loan + so much more!
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