Venezuela Diaspora Project

Sebastian Delgado co-founder of Fei Labs talks about the future of decentralized organizations and the future of decentralized finance and how they launched Fei.money. Fei labs launched in 2021 and raised $20M from Az16, Naval, Sillicon valley angels and others. Sebastian is from Caracas Venezuela and currently resides in the SF bay area. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/venezueladiaspora/support

2021 cierre y recuento de aprendizajes a emprendedores Venezolanos en la diaspora --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/venezueladiaspora/support

Sebastian Delmont talks about his journey creating the

Pantricolas (David Sira) y Chubeto entrevistan a Bobby Comedia en el marco del lanzamiento de su nuevo proyecto Comedy Monsters Club. En la parte 2 (esta) Bobby echa el cuento de sus inicios como comediante standup de la universidad a hoy en dia. En la parte 1, que la pueden ver en el canal hablamos a fondo sobre el Comedy Monster Club --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/venezueladiaspora/support

Pantricolas (David Sira) y Chubeto entrevistan a Bobby Comedia en el marco del lanzamiento de su nuevo proyecto Comedy Monsters Club. En la parte 2 (esta) Bobby echa el cuento de sus inicios como comediante standup de la universidad a hoy en dia. En la parte 1, que la pueden ver en el canal hablamos a fondo sobre el Comedy Monster Club --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/venezueladiaspora/support

In this interview Kristhyan improvises and plays some of his songs. He was recently nominated for a grammy in the category Best Classical Album for his album Latin American Classics. Kristhyan is based in New York city and granted us time to discuss his journey and perform songs from his latest album. https://www.instagram.com/kristhyan/ https://www.kbenitez.com/ Credits: Edicion y Sonido David Sira @pantricolas https://twitter.com/pantricolas Edicion Alirio Rodriguez https://www.instagram.com/liroxsvideo... Conducción: Jesus Bolivar @chubetob https://twitter.com/chubetob --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/venezueladiaspora/support

JN Silva is a Venezuelan Photographer and digital artist. He was raised in the New York city area. JN Silva has done work with major brands like Nike, Sony, Don Julio and many others. In this episode, we dive into the NFTs movement that is transforming digital art ownership while empowering artists, media companies and individuals with a new tool to exchange/hold value. He is amongst 40 artist that got featured in to a NFT drop by Times Magazine. https://time.com/collection/timepieces-nft/6098958/jn-silva/ "With a career that spans over a decade, JN Silva has showcased his work all around the world, and has a long history of building and fostering community across mediums. A former educator, Silva has taught photography workshops and led photo walks all over the world, while working with major brands and photographing iconic images of the world's leading artists. His recent entry into the NFT world marked a clear shift for the photography community, and he has on-boarded hundreds, if not thousands of artists into the world of NFTs via his artist collective, Animus." checkout his work in instagram and his website https://instagram.com/jnsilva https://jnsilva.com Credits: Edicion y Sonido David Sira @pantricolas https://twitter.com/pantricolas Edicion Alirio Rodriguez https://www.instagram.com/liroxsvideo... Conducción: Jesus Bolivar @chubetob https://twitter.com/chubetob --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/venezueladiaspora/support

Michael Antonorsi is a Biomedical Engineer turned chef. Cacao runs through his blood from "Aguasanta" a small farm in Venezuelan known for its fine cacao. He founded Chuao Chocolatier in San Diego, California more than 20 years ago. "Chef Michael has been named top ten chocolatier in North America by dessert professional magazine and has received international acclaim for his chocolate creations, with TV appearances on the food network, cooking channel, dr. phil, and cnn en espanol." In this interview we learn about how this project was conceived and Michale's journey from Idea to scaling a chocolate brand in the US. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/venezueladiaspora/support

Hugo is an engineer who has reached more than 170.000 souls through his podcast Conexiones and Latinos who Tech. https://conexiones.io/ Many latinos in the US have been able to get a job in the high growing Technology sector thanks to Hugo's 115 episodes where with many latinos who work at Google, Facebook, Tesla, VMWare. During our conversationHe shares his thoughts on his own journey of launching Conexiones and some of the stories from his episodes. Hugo walks us through his journey building an audience and how he navigated life in the US. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/venezueladiaspora/support

Follow Juan Andres walking around Barcelona's Sagrada Family, el Arco del triunfo y las Ramblas... until we get to Chivuo's Restaurant. Juan Andres introduces his new city while explaining his journey from the kitchen to growing a restaurant chain and virtual kitchens in Barcelona and Valencia. You'll learn how he kept growing despite 2020's pandemic and how the city of Barcelona is recovering. This filmed in April of 2020. If you want to enjoy the video go to our channel in youtube --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/venezueladiaspora/support

Alicia Castillo is an agronomist from Universidad Central de Venezuela, she is a prolific investor based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is part of Sand Hill Angels and she currently runs the wealthing.com institute. Alicia has written a number of books, “Funding your million dollar idea” and created more than 18 companies. She runs a nonprofit Boxoflife to support Ancianato San Jose in Aragua Venezuela. In this interview Alicia explains her approach to investing in companies and her passion for supporting entrepreneurs of all backgrounds, women and what in the US is known as “minority groups”. Alicia created the first seed capital fund in Chile. Before being an investor in Silicon Valley, Alicia made a career in research and product development in Bayer and Shell in Venezuela for the agricultural industry. She championed laws and regulation that balanced productivity and the environment, fostering collaboration across industry players. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/venezueladiaspora/support

Manuel Iribarren is a Venezuelan raised in London and a senior at Stanford. He is studying on Product Design and is focused on creating more paths for children to learn. He started his first education company while a Junior in highschool. We dove deep into his latest endeavor a Designing Thinking Education company project. Manuel teaches children design thinking by partnering with schools around the globe to design curriculums for them --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/venezueladiaspora/support

This week we hosted Jose Ramon "Moncho" Morales, because he published a piece on what should Biden do about Venzuela "https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/biden-strategy-on-venezuela-by-ricardo-hausmann-and-jose-morales-arilla-2021-03" Moncho talks about the case for continued international pressure with better coordination between the different nations pursuing a solution to the Venezuelan crisis. Including "chavismo patrons" Cuba, Rusia, China and Turkey. For Venezuelans living abroad the issue of ID/passports will continue to exist, as well as the need to provide aid to Venezuelans living in the territory. To this end, we discuss the importance of the use of technology in enabling direct transfers to the Venezuelans, and some potential solutions to providing IDs for Venezuelan living abroad and in the territory th We got to briefly discuss the latest on the Covax and Vaccination agreement between the "two Venezuelan" governments. JB --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/venezueladiaspora/support

Renato is the founder of the firm 2A consulting. They specialize in story telling for technology companies. Based in Seattle, Renato is a caring leader who is passionate about mentoring others and giving back. We had a conversation about his journey from MBA at the university of Washington to growing 2A consulting by serving large technology clients, we also touch on the future of technology and ways that starting hispanic entrepreneurs can find opportunities. Here are the organizations that he advised to seek for support: Finance: https://www.alpfa.org/​ Engineering: https://www.shpe.org/ ​MBA and business professionals: https://members.prospanica.org/ ​Physicist http://www.hispanicphysicists.org/ ​Medical https://www.nhmamd.org/​ Latinas https://nlbwa-la.org/​ US Small Business Administration: https://www.sba.gov/​ Reach out to Renato for mentorship opportunities: agrella@gmail.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/venezueladiaspora/support

Victor Cardenas is a 19 year old sophomore at Stanford University and co-founder of @tabtabapp. Raised in Caracas, Venezuela, his teenage years were impacted by the beginning of Venezuela's hyperinflation. He built his first 'fintech' at the school cantina that was forced to sell food without cash and hyperinflation. Victor shares his story building his startup during the Covid lockdown. How he built a prototype and found partners to carry his idea forward. How growing up in Caracas shaped his entrepreneurial experience. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/venezueladiaspora/support

Jose De Castro is a Venezuelan American Serial entrepreneur in the Communications platform space. In this session, Jose shares his journey from Miami to Caracas to Budapest and San Francisco. He also shares insights building during the pandemic. Jose's startup was acquired by Cisco, and where he became CTO of Webex Teams. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/venezueladiaspora/support

Luz Zambrano founder of a direct to consumer brand @CasupoShop basada en California Luz comparte cómo empezó su empresa, como logró financiamiento, adaptaciones comerciales al covid y como contribuir a Venezuela desde el exilio. Luz shares how she got started, funding, giving back and advice on adapting to customer's needs and Covid. Luz is an inspirational founder as she is not only a builder and artist, she actively gives back to Venezuela supporting children with cancer through Fundanica. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/venezueladiaspora/support

This episode is for Venezolanos e hispanohablantes que se pregunten porque estamos hablando mostly in english durante este season. Es la introducción a la serie de entrevistas en ingles a emprendedores Venezolanos en EEUU. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/venezueladiaspora/support

This episode explains the season. We aim to find and interview Venezuelan Entrepreneurs and change makers in the US and present them to you. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/venezueladiaspora/support

In this interview we dive into Raul's journey from Venezuela to the US. Se encandena varias veces lo que hizo la entrevista facil porque se respondio todas las preguntas sin tener que hacerlas :). at 3.08 Raul dives deep into the history of how Caracas Chronicle started, and how he got involved. "if we wanted to dedicate more time to it, we need it to make it a business" "we built the business around the idea that we wanted to dedicate more time to Caracas Chronicles". at 12:30 he talks about Cinco8 the spanish website the launched @23 he talks about lessons sin starting the LLC @30.23 we do a funny rapid fire @ 32.44 talks about his journey from Venezuela Follow him in twitter @raulstolk. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/venezueladiaspora/support