Americanos EMPRENDIENDO en Latinoamerica | BRIAN REQUARTH #136.

23 Aug 2021 · 103 min
1:43:01

Spanish interview with Brian Requarth about his path as an American entrepreneur in Latin America: early adventures (road-trip through Mexico, living in Colombia), first jobs (valet, English teacher), meeting his cofounder and founding VivaReal after a bad rental experience. VivaReal found product–market fit around mid-Dec 2011 (early paid contracts) and later scaled in Brazil, raising institutional capital (total disclosed > $74M) and growing to 500+ employees before merging with a larger competitor; the company was sold in 2020 for over $550M. Requarth recounts hard personal moments (sold his apartment and invested ~80–90% of proceeds into the company; periods living in founders' apartments), lessons from a difficult merger (cultural/leadership mistakes, 9-month delay to fix leadership), the emotional toll on family and how partner support mattered, and his transition to investing and founding Latitude — a six-week, virtual early-stage program for Latin American founders (cost ~$700 per cohort; applications close end of August; cohort start cited as Sept 13; women invited free in that cohort). He advocates for community, transparency, angel syndicates and small angel checks as the future of regional funding, and emphasizes persistence as key advice for founders.

Questions this video answers

More than $74 million.

Around mid-December 2011 (cites December 15, 2011 as the turning point).

April 11, 2014 (he had won an Entrepreneur of the Year award that week).

Sold in 2020 for more than $550 million.

He says he invested about 80–90% of the apartment sale proceeds into the business.

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