Start in a 25 square meter room in Porto Alegre and create a billionaire company listed on the New York Stock Exchange is for a few – even more so if you turn the Brazilian financial market and help millions of Brazilians to invest better.
Guilherme Benchimol, founder and executive chairman of the XP Inc Board, shared details of his winning career with the 32 entrepreneurs who participated in the second and last day of the first immersion of scratch to the top Xperience in Sao Paulo, on Sunday (31).
Created by Infomoney In partnership with XP Educação, XP Enterprises and Galapos, the event also brought together 20 mentors from the most varied areas, with Romero Rodrigues, co -founder of Buscapé and currently investor of Venture Capital at Headline and XP partner, Tiago Moura Mendonça, CEO of the construction, Thiago Cordeiro, founder of Goodstorage, Thiago Maffra, CEO of XP, among others.
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During a panel mediated by Fábio Vitola, CEO of Galapos, Benchimol interacted with the participants, answering questions about his business and his history.
“Every entrepreneur has to be obsessive in being resilient,” he said. “The hardest to undertake is that from time to time we are obliged to transform. We learned that in a team that is winning does not move, but this is the biggest lie. It is important that you have a lot of humility and make sure that it will change,” he added.
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One of the topics that most aroused the public’s interest was the XP partnership model to attract and retain some of the largest talents on the market.
Another highlight of the day was the panel of Cristhiano Faé, co -founder of Scale Partners, who spoke about the creation of strong teams. Then Thiago Maffra, CEO of XP, Pedro Chiamurela, founder of Clearsale, and Rafael Silveira, a partner of Falconi, talked about the differentials of a business.
In a panel on sales management, Philipe Pellegrino, Head of XP Empresa, Alexander Clein, Olist’s commercial director, and Cristhiano Faé, from Scale debated about the challenges of setting up teams, and Bait’s Henrique Blecher spoke about how to drive business in an uncertain scenario.
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The closing was with another podcast recording , in which the presenter Mariana Amaro interviewed Fabiana Tchalian of the water in the box.
The event brought together an audience of 32 leaders from 30 companies, who together employ more than 5,000 people and earn at least $ 2 billion per year. More than a thousand candidates participated in the selection process for the first edition of Immersion. “We will have other editions soon,” said Benchimol.
