I am a serial entrepreneur and strategic advisor with more than three decades working at the intersection of technology, business, and public discourse. I co-founded StarMedia, the world’s first pan-Latin Internet portal. StarMedia became the first Latin Internet company to go public, and we raised the first dollar of venture capital for the Latin American Internet sector. Today, I am focused on Verde Inc., where we created Vera, an AI-first platform designed for Gen Z. Vera is not another fintech app or chatbot. It is the first Emotional AI Financial Operating System built specifically for the first fully digital, AI-native generation. Vera combines emotional intelligence, financial services, and ethical AI to help Gen Z reduce money anxiety and take control of their financial lives t...