PART ONE: A GLOBAL MOVEMENT EMERGES
GLOBANT
Globant's four founders are committed to revers- ing the "brain drain" in Argentina by providing their 3,000 employees with high-value jobs. Their success has been significant: Several Globant employees have been inspired by Martín, Martín, Nestor, and Guibert to become entre- preneurs themselves.
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circle in 2011, when Suárez Battán, Endeavor Entrepreneur Tiburcio de la Cárcova, and former Patagon.com evp Juan Pablo Cappello founded Idea.me, a crowd sourcing platform for Latin American artists, and hired a former Endeavor Global director to lead the company. The dense web of connections created by high-impact entrepreneurs in Argentina has
contributed greatly towards building a tech sector that today employs roughly 80,000 people and generates over usd $1 billion in revenue annually. This is a story of great hope in a country where people thought it could never happen. And this is just the beginning of Endeavor's story, as the model spread first throughout Latin America and, later, around the world.
CELEBRATE
GLOBANT OPENS SILICON VALLEY OFFICE
In 2012, a year after acquiring SF-based software developer Nextive, Globant built brand new office space in Silicon Valley.
