Brian SamsonFounder of Plugg Technologies

Curious about Brazil's startup boom?

Name: Curious about Brazil's startup boom?
Uploaded: 2024-11-14T17:00:00+00:00
Duration: 54 s
Channel: Brian Samson
Description: A founder moved to São Paulo for a banking job speaking no Portuguese, relying on Google Translate while colleagues helped him through. He contrasts…

14 Nov 2024 · 1 min

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A founder moved to São Paulo for a banking job speaking no Portuguese, relying on Google Translate while colleagues helped him through. He contrasts Brazil's openness to foreigners with Japan's stricter language barriers, where non-Japanese speakers get sidelined from most work.

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I would say like Brazil has a lot of like different cultural backgrounds. So if you don't speak anything, you can be Brazilian. I mean, from the appearance, you cannot tell who is Brazilian, who is not Brazilian, literally. And also people are very open to foreigners as well. So I remember when I started working at the bank company in São Paulo, I didn't speak any Portuguese, so I needed to use like a translator, like a Google Translator, for example, and I need to repeat questions, and people patiently listen to me, my very poor Portuguese. So that is totally different from like a cultural acceptance in Japan, for example. If I don't speak Japanese in a Japanese office, maybe I can work in like very 100% English project with English-speaking clients. However, I cannot be working in Japanese project. So the acceptance to a foreigner is very warm and very comfortable.

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