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  4. Ep. 34, Mariano Gomide de Faria – He cut his team from 870 to 260 people. Then VTEX sold more.
Diese Folge ist auf Englisch, unsere erste.

Seventeen months ago, my guest looked at the 870 people in his
part of the company and decided to refound it from the future
backwards. Today there are 260. And he says: we sell more, we
implement better, our clients get better support. He also says
what it cost him: people who had worked for him for 25 years.

Mariano Gomide de Faria co-founded VTEX in Brazil 26 years ago,
without venture capital, in a country that was still on dial-up
during the internet boom. The company was profitable in 23 of
those years. With four clients on the books he took Walmart live,
a year and a half before Oracle managed it in Europe. Today
Walmart, Samsung and Carrefour run on his platform, in 48
countries. And the founders still hold control.

This is the first English episode of Unfiltered. My friends in
Dubai asked for it for a year, and I wanted the first one to be
with someone who tells owners things nobody else says out loud.
Mariano says budget and headcount are the cancer of any
organization, because that is how power is handed out. He says
executives are not paid to take risk but to protect the status
quo. He says he is always afraid and proud of it. He has banned
AI dashboards in his company. And he and his wife have written a
will that gives away 95 percent of their assets, because he wants
his kids to stay hungry.

Because I come from a family business with 5,000 employees, we
talk about the second generation, about titles instead of raises,
and about what a Brazilian founder in New York would tell German
owners: fire half of your board, ask for a plan for 50 years
instead of five. Germans are bigger than Germany. Plus the story
of how one phone call, via Richard Branson, brought Barack Obama
to VTEX Day in São Paulo.

Enjoy the episode.

The best moments of the episode on Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/unhyde.me/

️ Watch the episode on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/@Unhyde

More on Mariano Gomide de Faria:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariano-gomide-de-faria-vtex/

https://www.instagram.com/marianogfaria/

More on VTEX:

https://www.vtex.com

https://www.linkedin.com/company/vtex/

https://www.instagram.com/vtexglobal/

Sponsored episode / Werbung: This episode is sponsored by VTEX,
the enterprise commerce platform Mariano co-founded. VTEX is
currently fighting for the right to use the colour pink:

https://setpinkfree.com

https://www.instagram.com/setpinkfree
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