{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Alt Goes Mainstream: The Latest on Alternative Investments, WealthTech, & Private Markets","title":"How Bitso's Co-Founder & CEO Daniel Vogel has built a unicorn by making crypto useful","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3829,"description":"Today, we have our first LatAm guest on the AGM podcast. And it was a special one.\r\n\r\nBitso, LatAm’s leading crypto exchange, is fresh off of raising a $250M round led by Tiger Global months after raising a $62M round led by QED and Kaszek - and has been minted as one of LatAm’s newest unicorns.\r\n\r\nWe had Bitso’s co-founder and CEO Daniel Vogel on to talk about what it has been like to build a leading FinTech company in the region and provide access to investments and financial services.\r\n\r\nThis was such a fun conversation. We could have gone on for hours. We discussed a number of things including: how Daniel has dedicated his life to unlocking monetary freedom for people through crypto, how a talk with his friend, a janitor at his company in Silicon Valley, opened his eyes to the need for real applications of crypto to help people send money cross-border, the origins of Bitso and how Bitso was a pioneer of an online brokerage account in Mexico, how Bitso has become the on-ramp for financial services for many consumers across LatAm, the meaning behind Bitso’s slogan #makecryptouseful, the power of stablecoins and how it’s enabling people in countries with inflation and currency fluctuations to save money, how Bitso balances being a centralized company in a decentralized world, and how religion and community play a unique role in crypto.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/AFAZ1vkAT92lFJtqt-r0HeFQ55KTdcbJHmgKXaMlAtY/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzE5MDA4LzE2MTQ1/Mzk1MDUtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}