What brought the company to a certain extent of growth is not what will take it ahead. Understanding this – and that it is necessary to change and constantly transform – is one of the main challenges for entrepreneurs, second, founder of ().
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The council was given during a participation of Benchimol at the ABVCAP Experience 2025, held by the Brazilian Association of Private Equity and Venture Capital (ABVCAP) last week in São Paulo.
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For Benchimol, some points were essential for changing their vision of the business, such as the entry of new members and the formation of a board of directors.
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The first one served to bring a new vision to the business and the second served to show the importance of planning. “There was a belief that execution was much more important than setting up a plan,” he said. Today, he said, he already understands the importance of calmly planning, analyzing the data, before ‘starting to run’.
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The History of XP Inc
The history of exponential growth of XP INC has been the subject of an episode of the From zero to topthe program that tells the stories of men and women behind the large companies in Brazil.
In an interview with Podcast, Benchimol said one of the worst moments happened in 2009, when XP Investimentos was no longer a simple broker to become an investment platform and he was still trying to take care of every detail of the operation. “It was a difficult time. I didn’t have a mentor. No one teaches you about this phase of an entrepreneur,” he says. Listen to the full episode in podcast aggregats.
