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The J Curve with Olga Maslikhova

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The J Curve with Olga Maslikhova is a business podcast hosted by Olga Maslikhova. It has 107 episodes, with the latest published March 2026.

The J Curve, hosted by seasoned investor and Stanford GSB alum Olga Maslikhova, is your front-row seat to Latin America’s tech revolution. Ranked in the top 5% of global videocasts, we bring you unfiltered conversations with the visionaries—entrepreneurs and investors—who are redefining the tech landscape in Brazil and beyond. Tune in bi-weekly for insider stories, hard-earned lessons, and strategies behind some of LATAM’s most groundbreaking tech successes.

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1

Building Brazil’s Most Efficient Bank | Pedro Conrade, Neon (TJC Originals)

2

The Operating Playbook Behind a $100B Company | Stelleo Tolda (TJC Operators)

3

Building Breakout Companies in Latin America | Hernan Kazah

4

Why Exit Thinking Destroys Value - Round Two with Paulo Passoni ( Valor Capital)

5

Moats, Unit Economics, Retention: What Makes a Great Business - with Dileep Thazhmon (Jeeves) and Bruno Maimone (Warburg Pincus)

6

What Money Means Is About to Change - with Roberto Dagnoni (Mercado Bitcoin), Gui Gomes (OranjeBTC) and Ben Lizana (SoftBank)

7

Complexity Is Your Unfair Advantage - with Olga Maslikhova (The J Curve)

8

The Aviation Principle That Built a Unicorn - with Daniel Vogel (Bitso)

9

The WhatsApp MVP that became a $200M exit - w Caique Carvalho (ex-Gringo)

10

The Anti-Hustle Culture Behind One of Brazil’s Fastest-Growing Fintechs — with Piero Contezini (Asaas)

11

Brazil vs Mexico: The Playbook for Betting on LatAm’s Giants — with Julio Vasconcellos (Atlantico)

12

Building Olist: Pivots, M&A, Product-Market Fit & AI-Powered Commerce in Brazil w Tiago Dalvi

13

Why 90% of LATAM Founders Fail at VC Fundraising (And the Playbook That Actually Works) w / Olga Maslikhova

14

The $1B Pismo Playbook: How Brazilian Startups Beat Silicon Valley at Global Scale

15

How Sami Tripled Gross Margin in Brazil's $60B Private Health Insurance Market w / Dr. Vitor Asseituno

16

Federico Vega (Frete.com) on Cracking Network Effects in a $100B Legacy Freight Market

17

Olga Maslikhova, Host of The J Curve: LATAM’s Volatility Builds Better Operators

18

Caetano Lacerda & Raphael Dyxklay (Barte) on How to Win Mid-to-Large B2B Customers in Latin America

19

Joao Del Valle (EBANX) on The Future of Payments and Why Being Global by Default Is EBANX’s Biggest Moat

20

Mike Packer (QED) on the Post-2021 Reset—and Why AI-Driven Platforms Win

21

Marcelo Lutz & Roberto Biselli (Capim) on the $14B Dental Market—and the Credit Wedge That Cracked It

22

Olga Maslikhova, host of The J Curve on What Latam Founders Get Wrong About Exits

23

Gustavo Mapeli (Kanastra) on the $300B Market Built on Excel—And the Startup Replacing It

24

Roberto Oliveira (Blip) on Why WhatsApp, Not ChatGPT, Will Own AI Commerce

25

Guilherme Horn (Agora, Orama, WhatsApp) on How WhatsApp Took Over Brazil’s Economy—And What’s Next

26

Andre Penha (QuintoAndar, IBBX): $5B QuintoAndar Was Just the Start—This Is Bigger.

27

Paulo Passoni (Valor Capital) on IPOs, M&A, and AI’s Impact on Startups in Latam

28

Olga Maslikhova, host of The J Curve: LATAM’s tech explosion—blockbuster M&As, IPOs, and a pipeline of unicorns

29

Allen Taylor, Managing Partner at Endeavor Catalyst: How U.S. IPOs Can Unlock Billions for LATAM Startups

30

The J Curve After Hours: Dirty Martinis and Making It in Latin America

31

Marcelo Lombardo CEO at ERP giant Omie: What no one tells you about building a $100M in ARR startup

32

Adhemar Milani Neto, CEO at Brazilian car subscription platform Kovi: Why Brazil is poised to dominate the global EV market

33

Sergio Furio, founder and CEO of $4.8B Brazilian fintech lender Creditas: Why the wrong market will sink even the best team

34

Marcelo Abritta, founder and CEO at Buser: How a simple marketplace model took over Brazil’s $10B bus industry

35

Igor Marinelli, founder & CEO at Tractian: First Principles Approach to Disrupting Legacy Industries

36

Marcelo Maziero and Fernando Fontes, founders of Brazil’s leading receivables exchange firm CERC: The $5 trillion opportunity—How CERC is changing the capital market infrastructure in Brazil

37

Andre Maciel, founder at Brazilian VC Volpe Capital: the $700B LATAM question for Meta, Google and ByteDance

38

Marcelo França, founder & CEO at Brazilian fintech infrastructure company Celcoin: three critical choices that made Celcoin a fintech leader in Brazil

39

Dileep Thazhmon, founder and CEO at $2.1B tech unicorn Jeeves: LATAM is the future of fintech

40

Rafael de Albuquerque, CEO & founder at global data analytics company Zoox Smart Data: $200M data giant built without VC funding

41

Dave Nangle, founder and CEO of VEF, an emerging markets-focused, growth-stage fintech investment firm: Forget billion-dollar IPOs; M&A is the name of the exit game in venture capital!

42

Geraldo Thomaz, founder and co-CEO at NYSE-traded e-commerce platform VTEX: Key decisions that built a $1.3B+ e-commerce empire

43

Susan Segal, CEO of Americas Society/Council of the Americas: Pioneering LATAM Venture Capital and Why the Region Will Thrive with AI

44

Daniela Binatti, Founder at Financial Infrastructure Company Pismo: Pismo's Rise to a Billion Dollar Acquisition by Visa

45

Alexandre Zolko, Founder at $400M Customer Loyalty Platform CRM&Bonus: Build to Last, Not to Sell

46

Andre Florence and Gui Azevedo, founders at Brazil's largest health-tech startup Alice: The reality is a rollercoaster

47

Thibaud Lecuyer, CEO at $2B Logistics Startup Loggi: Sustainability Is a Drug

48

Joao Barbosa, Co-Founder at Corporate Wellness Platform Gympass: From Brazil to the World: The $2.4B Gympass Story

49

Vitor Torres, Founder and CEO at Accounting Platform Contabilizei: Pioneering the De-bureaucratization of Accounting in Brazil

50

Michele Levy, Fashion Entrepreneur Behind Melissa USA: How to Build and Sell Consumer Brands

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