Robert Terenzi, Wilson Sonsini Latin America Group Attorney, Semilla.VC Interview

On episode 29 of Semilla.VC, the podcast highlighting the most exciting and revolutionary figures in Latin American Venture Capital, Tech, and Society, Trip Gorman spoke with Robert Terenzi, Attorney in the Latin America Group at Wilson Sonsini. While working after college at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School he was told by his supervisors to consider living abroad. Shortly after, Rob’s six-week internship in Nicaragua turned into years of living and working in Central America learning about the coffee trade and later building Vega Coffee, a coffee company focused on building a supply chain that benefits coffee-growing communities.

In this interview you will learn:
✅ Considerations for founders when registering their international holding and domestic operating companies.
✅ How Wilson Sonsini uses fee caps and fee deferrals to help start up founders.
✅ How Robert built Vega Coffee in Nicaragua, as well as some funny stories surrounding that incredible experience. 
✅ Robert’s scientific analysis on the food safety of street meat vendors in Latin America and why you should just eat it!

and much, much more!

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Host: Trip Gorman, Twitter @GormanTrip, Linkedin: Tripg.me