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Coming to America: Nubank’s David Vélez

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Listen on Listen on: David Vélez materializes on the eighth floor of Nubank’s headquarters in São Paulo at 9:53am, and greets me in Portuguese with a thick Spanish accent. “I’ll be with you in seven minutes,” he says. I set up in a conference room. At 10am, he takes his seat across from me and asks, in Portuguese, which language we’re doing this in; we settle on English. He is sporting a gift fr

Listen on Listen on: David Vélez materializes on the eighth floor of Nubank’s headquarters in São Paulo at 9:53am, and greets me in Portuguese with a thick Spanish accent. “I’ll be with you in seven minutes,” he says. I set up in a conference room. At 10am, he takes his seat across from me and asks, in Portuguese, which language we’re doing this in; we settle on English. He is sporting a gift from his wife: a purple bracelet on his right wrist. I grew up only four miles from here, and first remember hearing about Nubank in 2015 from a friend who boasted about her new credit card. She told…

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