She was a farmer first
How seven years farming tomatoes and limes in Querétaro led to an MIT MBA and an AI platform rebuilding agricultural credit, cutting loan decisions from ninety days to near real time for the people who grow our food.
The Corridor is the record of Latino tech and culture. Founders, investors and builders across the US and LATAM, in long form, on the record. New episodes every week.
61,173 words, 188 chapters, one search box. Results jump to the moment it was said.
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C·001Every conversation moves through the same arc: Respect, Connect, Reflect. Same questions, every guest. A growing record of how Latinos build.
A warm, rapid-fire start. Pride, personality, and the one word in each guest's language that English can't touch.
Where they come from, and how it shaped the way they build, invest, and lead. Terroir over resume.
The real work. The honest business, the hard decisions, the bet they're actually making. Host as peer, not fan.
The jam session. Escalating questions, playful to profound, and one answer the guest can save "pa' la sobremesa."
The same closing question, every guest, forever: who held the door open for you, and whose name goes on the door you're holding open?
How seven years farming tomatoes and limes in Querétaro led to an MIT MBA and an AI platform rebuilding agricultural credit, cutting loan decisions from ninety days to near real time for the people who grow our food.
How a two-time founder built a fifty million dollar hybrid fund in Chicago that writes first checks into pre-seed startups and anchors the emerging managers who fund them next, and why philanthropic capital belongs in venture, not in charity.
Why one founder pointed AI at manufacturing instead of the cloud, how Corello captures tribal knowledge from operators who have run the same machines for thirty years, and what an AI coworker named Sophia does for a shop floor on a Monday morning.
How the capital markets ladder looks identical at every rung, from the first pre-seed check to the closing IPO bell, and why Latino founders need investors who have stood at both ends.
How a first-generation founder from South Central LA made the invisible rules of venture visible, why community is the moat that replaces the warm intro, and what actually matters when you are building without an inherited playbook.
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Hosted by Angel León. A podcast by Coquí Ventures. Audio lives on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube and Substack. This site is the archive and the front door.