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NUBANK FOUNDER TAKES LATIN AMERICA SUCCESS TO US

David Vélez, who built Nubank into Brazil's largest fintech, is now expanding the digital bank to the United States. The Stanford graduate and former Sequoia Capital employee left venture capital in 2013 to launch Nubank in Brazil, where it navigated regulatory hurdles and entrenched banking oligopolies.

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A profile of Nubank founder David Vélez, who graduated from Stanford, worked at Sequoia, and moved to Brazil to start the bank in 2013, as Nubank enters the US (Gabi Marques/Colossus)

Gabi Marques / Colossus: A profile of Nubank founder David Vélez, who graduated from Stanford, worked at Sequoia, and mo…

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