José Piñero
Executive Director at Somos VC · Leadership & VC Ecosystem Builder · Top Coach for Latinos
Conversations
Conversations about power and progress
Two decades at Microsoft and P&G, then the side door into venture. On the one-percent problem, the East Coast opportunity, and why persistence is the only strategy that scales.
Transcript →In their words
Visibility, access, relationships — those are the levers. Everything else is downstream.C·001
Corridor Context
Somos VC is building the infrastructure — fellowships, emerging manager support, data, policy — behind Latino participation in US venture capital, where Latino investment professionals still make up under 2% of firms managing over $100M.
The arc they moved through
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?