Former CEO & Co-Founder, Dlocal
Search every verified Sebastian Kanovich interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Sebastián Kanovich, CEO and co-founder of dLocal, has described the company as an infrastructure provider that helps global merchants such as Amazon, Netflix, and Spotify collect payments and make payouts in emerging markets. He has stated that dLocal processes payments locally in each market, offering access to over 900 payment methods, and that the company focuses on solving the complexity of fragmented payment systems, regulation, and currency conversion. Kanovich has said that dLocal's growth strategy involves expanding into new geographies and adding products such as fraud prevention and issuing services, while maintaining profitability with an adjusted EBITDA margin of 40%. Kanovich has discussed the company's origins in Uruguay and its decision to bootstrap before taking outside investment from General Atlantic. He has said that the company's IPO on the Nasdaq was driven by a desire for credibility and compliance rather than a need for capital. In interviews, he has emphasized the importance of speed of execution, building international teams by combining core company culture with local hires, and the need for global merchants to adapt to local payment preferences. He has also described the new world of work as being split between remote workers seeking flexibility and businesses needing data on talent availability and compensation.
“We have five, uh, 6K documents so there's we cannot say much anything actually beyond that; what we can do is explain how we operate in Argentina.”
“Our average credit card transaction in the country is just six and a half dollars.”
“The funds flow through various established and highly reputable banks both local and international, following the Central Bank rules and also following different layers of compliance both of the banks and of the regulators.”
“Every wire that we send has customer transactions behind it and it has supporting documentation that sometimes we are required to provide and we do; we have always operated within the regulatory framework.”
“Our business in Argentina is fundamentally the same as in every other country where we operate — it's the same merchant‑based model; Argentina's complex, we believe in complexity, we have value, so we're committed to the market.”
“We give global merchants access to over 900 payment methods in foreign countries; we offer both pay‑in and pay‑out services and we settle funds locally and internationally, managing tax and compliance along the way.”
“This market is huge — our market keeps getting bigger. We really don't spend time understanding the size of this market because the market is absolutely massive.”
“One billion dollars of pay‑ins would be a very bad month for us.”
“We care about EBITDA because we want to run a viable and sustainable business long term; we may be old school but we think profits are a good thing — our adjusted EBITDA levels are best in class and we want to keep the independence to invest.”
“In the last month 40 million end users paid through our platform — that's a big number — and we are operating in geographies with over 4 billion people but that's only about one percent; we have a lot of room to grow.”
“We're building financial infrastructure for emerging markets, essentially connecting global companies with users across Latin America, Africa and APAC through payments, payouts, issuing and fraud solutions.”
“I think the new world of work is split into two sides: one side is for the remote worker and the other side is for the business that is hiring a remote worker — and for the remote worker it really is grounded in flexibility over where you work, when you work, how you work.”
“From a business perspective the new world of work is founded in data and talent availability — if you don't have good data on engaging them, knowing how much to pay them, the currency to pay them, the benefits you give them, it's really tough.”
“People want to get paid on time in local currency but those rails were historically not there — companies like Deel have solved many parts of that issue, and the payments space continues to be extremely critical which has driven a lot of demand for us.”
“The first and most important thing is the idea that every payment is done locally — if it's a transaction that will end in Indonesia we make sure it's done through an Indonesian banking channel or a wallet.”
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Seba Kanovich is the CEO @ dlocal, the #1 payments leader with a single solution focused on Latin America and other emerging markets. In June 2021, dlocal raised $617M in their NASDAQ IPO listing valuing the company at nearly $9BN. Before their IPO, dlocal raised from some of the best including General Atlantic, Bond Capital, and Oren Zeev to name a few. Prior to dlocal, Seba was CEO @ AstroPay, a leading payment solution provider in Emerging Markets. -------------------------------------- Timestamps: 0:00 Seba's Background 1:09 Luck vs. Skill 2:13 What is "high performance"? 3:16 How to…
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