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Category: Mindfulness

The Gratitude Algorithm

Posted on January 26, 2021 by uripomerantz

There’s a lot of fluff written on gratitude, and it’s easy for those trained in engineering (including myself) to be readily dismissive and miss out on something transformative. So I wanted to write an article addressed specifically to hackers and engineers – starting from first order principles of experience, and providing a heuristic to transform…

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Dropping Into Wonder Before Dropping Into Work

Posted on July 2, 2020July 6, 2020 by uripomerantz

Lost in a Powerful Virtual Reality Headset Picture the scene: the pandemic is over and you find yourself at CES in Las Vegas. You enter the crowded floor and a shiny device in the center of the room immediately grabs your attention. It’s the most sophisticated virtual reality headset that has ever been invented. You…

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Love or Fear in America: Learning from Germany, Singapore, and Israel

Posted on June 4, 2020 by uripomerantz

“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” – Victor Frankl We each face a choice in every single moment: to act from a place of love or fear. Fear wins by default, and for good reason….

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About

I’m the co-founder and CEO of Local – a tech startup pioneering the concept of group buying and credit, starting in LatAm.

To learn more drop us a note at careers@mercadolocal.com

I previously worked in venture capital as a Venture Partner with Jackson Square Ventures.

Throughout my career, I’ve worked in fintech and entrepreneurship for two decades – as a founder and at Fortune 500 companies. 

As a founder, I’ve built a startup acquired by a Fortune 500 company (John Hancock), built a startup with the parent company (Twine), and founded a microfinance organization (Jozoor Microfinance).

With Fortune 500 companies, I’ve developed strategy (McKinsey), led strategic partnerships and new ventures (John Hancock), and in engineering and business development (Microsoft).

I studied at Stanford (symbolic systems and MBA) and Harvard (masters in international economic development).

All views are my own.

Recent Posts

  • Be ambitious when others are fearful
  • Sigue construyendo
  • Agora é a hora de ser ambicioso quando outros estão com medo
  • The Disciplined Startup in an Undisciplined Market
  • The Pre-Mortem for Founders & Funders
  • Your startup is not a “deal”​ to me
  • Nail Your Series A Pitch: Story, State, Simplicity
  • Investing in Our Evolution
  • What founders can learn when a VC asks “How Can I Help?”​
  • Why Great Board Members Don’t Make Recommendations
  • The Gray Zone
  • Your Board as a Braintrust
  • Public.com: One simple UX choice. A massive behavioral finance opportunity.
  • Robinhood: Elon Musk, bad incentives, and the solve (and ok, let’s throw in blockchain)
  • In Times of Froth, Choose Your Venture Investors Wisely
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