Victor Lazarte on checkpoints
From In @HDinHDPodcast , Wildlife’s CEO Victor Lazarte, shares one of his craziest travel moments · · hdinhd.clipped
“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...”
On , Victor Lazarte, CEO & Co-Founder at Wildlife Studios, spoke about checkpoints during In @HDinHDPodcast , Wildlife’s CEO Victor Lazarte, shares one of his craziest travel moments on hdinhd.clipped.
About Victor Lazarte
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.