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Nubank and digital banking
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- 0:00Brazil's big banks made people queue for
- 0:01everything.
- 0:02>> [music]
- 0:02>> A Colombian investor built a purple card
- 0:04instead, and a 100 million people took
- 0:06it.
- 0:07David Velez moved to Sao Paulo as an
- 0:09investor, opening a bank account meant
- 0:11weeks of paperwork, [music] security
- 0:13doors, and fees on everything.
- 0:15In 2013, with Christina Junqueira
- 0:17[music]
- 0:17and Edward Wible, he started Nubank in a
- 0:19small house.
- 0:21The first product was a purple credit
- 0:22card with no annual [music] fee, run
- 0:24entirely from an app. People joined a
- 0:26waiting list to get one, then accounts,
- 0:28>> [music]
- 0:29>> loans, investments. Brazil, then Mexico,
- 0:32then Colombia.
- 0:33In 2021, Nubank went public in New York.
- 0:36>> [music]
- 0:37>> In 2025, it passed 100 million
- 0:39customers. A purple card beat the banks.
- 0:43>> Follow Vibe Economies for more.
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