CEO & Co-Founder, Wildlife Studios
Search every verified Victor Lazarte interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Victor Lazarte, CEO and co-founder of Wildlife Studios and a general partner at Benchmark, appeared on several podcasts in 2024 and 2025. On the podcast "From Wildlife to Benchmark," Lazarte discussed his transition from founder to venture capitalist and his early career, noting that he was initially "not a fan of the spotlight" and wanted to do something "more tangible" than finance. He also stated that he bootstrapped Wildlife for nine years before raising capital. At the Brazil at Silicon Valley Conference in January 2025, Lazarte said he raised his Series A from Benchmark because he "needed the knowledge" rather than the capital. In a November 2024 fireside chat, he said that after a $3 billion round in 2021, Wildlife made the "mistake" of starting too many large experiments that were expensive to unwind, and that the company later created a "studio in a box" program to help game directors set up their own studios with a profit-sharing model. In a July 2025 episode of the podcast "Chocolate com Pimenta," Lazarte discussed the impact of wealth, saying the "biggest impact of money is security" but that it can also bring "pressure and comparison." He predicted that within three to four years someone would found a trillion-dollar company, and that a "digital friend" powered by AI could become a person's closest companion. Lazarte also shared a travel story on the "HDinHD" podcast in August 2025, describing a trip to India where he and others rented motorcycles and attempted to drive on a disputed road near the India-China border, telling military guards they had "special authorization" to pass.
“Like I went to India and we rented like these motorcycles and there was this tiny road that crossed from India to China and there's a lot of conflicts between like India and China.”
“There's this like Kashmir like this region that is like there's like a dispute where exactly the the lines are.”
“When we rented the motorcycles the place that rented it they said hey like you guys can go anywhere except for this little road here it's like that's controlled by the military and of course that's where you want to go.”
“And then we're like going up this mountain and hey like let's just see how far can we go and there was this military checkpoints and then they like oh like okay you can't come through here and would tell the guards no like we have this special authorization for and then people like oh okay if you have like...”
In @HDinHDPodcast , Wildlife's CEO & co-founder, Victor Lazarte, shares one of his craziest travel moments from his India trip ...
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Victor Lazarte took a flyer on his first company, leaving a prestigious job at JP Morgan to make mobile games. Now he sits on the board of one of the most prestigious Venture Capital firms in the world. Victor opens up to Henrique about his early attempts to grow his business, making money in the competitive world of online games, and making the transition from founder to VC. Plus, the two talk shop about growing up in Brazil and how Victor was able to talk his way out of being expelled from grade school. 00:00:00 Intro 00:00:53 Leading a private life 00:07:00 Helping young people 00:10:18 Le…
At the 2024 Investor Meeting in San Francisco, California, Victor Lazarte, Founder & CEO of Wildlife Studios and General Partner ...
Victor Lazarte and Henrique Dubugras's panel at the Brazil at Silicon Valley Conference (6th Edition).
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