It was a prophetic post back in October.
“First, they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win,” read the post by Colombian entrepreneur David Velez two months ago.
Disenchanted with what he described as a dreadful bank experience in Latin America, Velez founded Nubank in 2013 with the idea of taking on big banks in Brazil and leveraging technology to change how financial products are served in the country radically.
Bloomberg News reported that the company raised $2.6 billion in their U.S. IPO on Wednesday.
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