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O F F I C E L A U N C H E S M I L E S TO N E
Chile
Argentina
Endeavor launches its first offices
in Chile and Argentina.
FAC E S O F I M PAC T
Wences Casares was born on a sheep
farm in Patagonia, the son of a rancher.
"e biggest impact my father
had on me was showing me how
to be a doer," Wences says. "Living
in the middle of nowhere, we
constantly had to come up with
creative ways of solving problems,
like digging trenches or building
bridges on the side of a mountain."
One of the first entrepreneurs
selected by Endeavor, Wences was
operating his nascent e-trading
platform, Patagon.com, from his
apartment kitchen in Buenos Aires.
Two years later, he sold the business to
Banco Santander for $750 million. e
news electrified young entrepreneurs
across the region. "If Wences can
do it, I can do it too," they said.
Since then, Wences has been
involved in a number of successful
ventures. Today Wences is renowned
as a successful international fintech
entrepreneur and a next-generation
payments and bitcoin thought
leader with his company Xapo.
Even more important, Wences
turned his attention to helping others,
serving as a top mentor, investor,
and board member for the Endeavor
network, paying it forward to the
next generation of entrepreneurs
and serving as a true role model.
"Endeavor is the way of bottling
the best know-how of the business
world, and bringing it to parts of
the world where it's not reaching
currently," Wences says.
WENCES CASARES
Patagon.com / Xapo
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Selected 1998
Endeavor Argentina
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