Startupeable is the most listened-to startup podcast in Latin America (5M+ downloads). We interview the CEOs of the most consequential companies in our region and beyond, including the founders of Mercado Libre, Nubank, Clip, Ualá, Kavak and Cornershop. Founders, investors and operators across Latin America listen to it. Hosted by Enzo Cavalie from Silicon Valley.
How it started
In 2019, I started Startupeable as a personal blog. It was a place to organise and share what I was learning about startups in Latin America.
By then I had already worked as an investor in Peru and later in Mexico. I had met hundreds of talented founders, and I noticed a pattern that limited their impact: a gap in practical knowledge.
Not theory, but how a startup actually gets built: how you validate an idea, put a team together, grow, and raise capital.
The frustrating part is that the knowledge existed, it just wasn't accessible. The best startup content lives in US media, with Silicon Valley examples and assumptions that didn't apply to Latin America.
Plenty of founders weren't limited by a lack of talent. They were limited by never having been exposed to this before.
Startupeable was born to close that gap.
The real gap
Over time, and especially after living in Silicon Valley, I realised something more uncomfortable: knowledge alone does not raise ambition.
The deeper gap is one of ambition and standards.
Very few Latin Americans picture themselves building genuinely global companies. Fewer still understand what competing at that level takes: the speed, the rigour, the decisions it demands.
It isn't a lack of talent. It's a lack of exposure.
I understood it by living in Silicon Valley. Not because it's a magical place, but because it's an environment where thinking big is the norm. Where the conversations, the references and the business decisions assume global scale by default.
In Latin America the environment pushes the other way. Not because people are less capable, but because the success stories you see, the companies you measure yourself against, the ceiling of what looks «possible»: all of it is smaller.
And that quietly conditions you to make small decisions.
But over time I understood that Silicon Valley isn't only a place. It's also a way of thinking. And if it's a way of thinking, it can be exported.
Startupeable couldn't just be information. It had to be exposure: to stories, decisions and standards that expand what we believe is possible as Latin Americans.
The conviction underneath
I'm convinced of one thing: the greatest engine of progress for Latin America is more people building high-impact companies.
Not just any company. Global companies like Nubank, Mercado Libre, Auth0, Cornershop, Vercel: companies that build world-class technology, train sophisticated talent, and raise the standard for an entire generation.
I dream of a Latin America where dreaming big is normal. Where nobody talks you down for your «crazy» ideas, for trying something too ambitious.
What Startupeable is
We tell stories that show how the people who already built world-class companies think: the real decisions, what they cost, and the level of play it took. Leaving your country, betting against what everyone else believed, trading the safe thing for the possible one.
Our guests can be from Latin America, the US, or anywhere. In Spanish or in English.
There is only one criterion: that the story raises the standard of what we believe is possible as Latin Americans.
Over time, Startupeable stopped being a blog and became a podcast. But the essence never changed.
The mission
There's a line from the Spanish band Duncan Dhu that has always stayed with me:
And in the shadows, geniuses die never knowing their own magic.
I've met too many Latin Americans like that. People with enormous talent who never found out what they were capable of: not for lack of ability, but because nobody showed them what was possible or what it would take.
Startupeable exists so that stops being true.
Our mission is to raise the ambition and the standards of Latin American founders.
