VC Cafe
APRIL 8, 2010
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio (Lula) da Silva gave Israeli President Shimon Peres his final approval for a free trade agreement between Israel and the Mercosur bloc (Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay). The British mobile payments and messaging aggregator will become part of Amdocs’ OpenMarket US mobile transactions hub.
Start Up Blog
APRIL 29, 2013
Here he found out that every kid in Uruguay is given a free laptop by the government – (for me it’s a bit like western countries giving all kids a free public education some 200 years ago and that’s why they currently lead the developed world). The entire country of Uruguay is connected to the web.
Startup Lessons Learned
MAY 4, 2021
It kind of aggregates technology content, I suppose. It was so amazing, like we were trying to send payments into Uruguay to pay people who are listening to their homes on Airbnb. And so we eventually just sent $100 through it and asked somebody in Uruguay to tell us how much money showed up on the other side.
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