Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAlberto Monroy: Pick Mexico for Speed and Brazil for Depth. Cost Is the Wrong Question. (87 chars)
Everyone asks me what nearshoring costs. Alberto Monroy, who guides U.S. companies through this every day at Plugg, says that’s the wrong first quest…
18 hours ago
Series C AI Burn: How LATAM Senior Engineers Cut Costs From $700K to $200K
A Series C company in 2026 can have product market fit and still be in trouble if burn gets sloppy, and the fastest way burn gets weird is AI. When t…
3 weeks, 6 days ago
A British Reporter Explains What Latin America Taught Him
A lot of people dream about “moving to Latin America,” but far fewer can explain what actually changes when you do. Richard McColl can. He grew up in…
1 month ago
You Cannot Lead Globally Without Changing How You Speak
You can have the perfect project plan and still fail if you speak to every culture the same way. I sit down with Anna Martins, a Brazil-based project…
2 months ago
Matt Hines Built a 110-Person Law Firm with Latin American Talent. Here's How.
A law firm is a business, and pretending otherwise is how a lot of talented professionals stall out. Brian Sampson talks with attorney and entreprene…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Brian Samson Breaks Down the 2026 Playbook for Hiring Top Talent in Latin America
Hiring top tech talent in Latin America is reshaping how U.S. companies build engineering teams in 2026. Brian Samson, founder of Plugg Technologies,…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Brian Samson Shares Real Nearshore Hiring Stories from Brazil and Mexico
Real nearshore recruiting stories straight from the front lines of Latin America tech hiring — no theory, just placements that actually happened. Hos…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Building Sales Teams in Mexico: Mario Oliveros Figueroa on LATAM Talent & Cross-Border Selling
Mario Oliveros Figueroa has spent his career doing one thing: building sales teams across Latin America. Today he's the Global Director of Latin Amer…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Victor Fernandes Spent 7 Years Automating Power Plants. Now He Builds Data Platforms.
Victor Fernandes is a data platform engineer from Fortaleza, Brazil — and his path to get there is unlike anything I've heard before. Seven and a hal…
4 months ago
H1B Hiring Reality Check
The H1B conversation is loud, political, and often full of half-truths, so we wanted a clean, practical breakdown from someone who has lived it from …
4 months ago