Source: New York Times.
Jonathan Gheller went from selling tequeños, a Venezuelan fried, cheese-filled appetizer, in Caracas to building a company that he sold to Facebook. Now, working at its placid Menlo Park, Calif., headquarters, he credits mostly one person for his change in fortune.
Likewise, Kenneth Lin struggled in the early days of Credit Karma, the online personal finance company he founded in 2007 in San Francisco. The field called fintech, financial technology, is now hotly pursued by investors. But through 2012, he raised only $2.5 million. The company’s outlook changed in 2013 after he found a kindred spirit.
Both feel indebted to Meyer Malka, 41, a Venezuelan known as Micky. In 2012 he formed the venture capital firm Ribbit Capital here. Since then, he has become a rising force in Silicon Valley and one of the few Latin Americans to crack its upper echelon.
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