He beat Silicon Valley with improbable timing
Mercado Libre: From garage project to $70 billion Published in Svenska Dagbladet, 2024-08-03. Translated from Swedish. From a garage to becoming Latin America’s most important tech company. The Mercado Libre success story sounds like a cliché — but with near-perfect timing, Marcos Galperin has built a company that Silicon Valley cannot touch. “He is now morbidly obese, a drug addict, has cancer, AIDS and is an alcoholic.” That is how Marcos Galperin describes Argentina’s economy […]