Gastón Irigoyen

Gastón Irigoyen Gastón Irigoyen learned that Google was hiring in Argentina when someone handed him a leaflet after class...

Gastón Taratuta

Gastón Taratuta was thirty-six and about to sign the sale of his company. Sony was offering him ten million dollars. It was 2008, and besides thinking about the money, he imagined reading the news in the papers. Doubt arose in the elevator of his ...

Pedro Arnt

He runs a Uruguayan company that generates more than a billion dollars in annual revenue, although many people use its services without knowing its name. Pedro Arnt is fine with that. Meanwhile, he keeps repeating a phrase t...

John Ternus

John Ternus earned the nickname Crash after an accident with his university’s milling machine. He came close to breaking the only machine of its kind available to the engineering students. Years later, by then an Apple executive, he told the story ag...

Ariel Szarfsztejn

Ariel Szarfsztejn does not know how to code, but one weekend he set about building, with the help of an artificial intelligence agent, a program to bring together his medical test results from the past fifteen years. He wanted to have them all in one...

Andy Jassy

Every Sunday during football season, Andy Jassy gets up early in Seattle and places an Amazon order: bagels and an assortment of chips, usually Ruffles. New York Giants games start at ten in the morning...

Sam Altman

Sam Altman describes himself as a lazy user. He does not want to configure anything, switch windows, or make a click he can avoid. Not long ago, ...

Sebastián Serrano

On Sunday, October 26, 2025, Argentina was holding legislative elections, and not much was happening at Ripio. Sebastián Serrano remembers it in a much more graphic way: “Tumbleweeds were rolling.” ...

Sanjay Mehrotra

Sanjay Mehrotra tried three times to get a visa to study in the United States, and all three times he was turned down. He was 18, had completed two years of university in I...