Ian Lee

His interest in technology began while playing the video game Counter-Strike with the people who would later co-found Examedi with him; they decided to build a game of their own, which he says did not work. On the age at which he began programming, a 2023 Diario Financiero profile states that he taught himself web development by searching online from the age of 13; a 2022 Chócale article says he had been a self-taught programmer since 14, and a 2022 Contxto article also says he had been programming since 14. He said: “He armado tantos proyectos, que esa fue mi universidad” (I have built so many projects that that was my university).⁠[1][2][3]

Diario Financiero writes that during his school years he kept studying every day after doing his homework at home, and so grew used to sleeping only four to five hours a night.⁠[1]

As a teenager he worked at the Chilean proptech company Houm. The articles give different ages: Diario Financiero (2023) and Forbes Chile (2025) say he was already a programmer at Houm at 16; Chócale (2022) says this was his first job, at 17, as a founding software engineer at Houm (Y Combinator Winter 2021); Contxto (2022) says he was a software engineer at Houm at 18. Houm is a technology company that helps people rent out and sell property in Chile, Colombia and Mexico.⁠[1][4][2][3][5]

Chócale writes that he won a scholarship in software engineering at the University of WaterlooUniversity of WaterlooThe University of Waterloo is a university in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, that opened in 1957 with engineering as its first faculty. Co-operative education, alternating academic and work terms, has been a guiding value since its founding; in October 1957 its first engineering students began what the university describes as Canada’s first educational work term.Open the full entry and that at 18 he decided to devote himself fully to his own venture. Diario Financiero (2023) says that he entered university on a full scholarship and left after three months, without naming the university; Forbes Chile (2025) says that after graduating with top marks he went to university on a scholarship and left after three months to start a company, also without naming the school.⁠[2][1][4]

Examedi was co-founded by Ian Lee (chief executive officer), Andrés Kemeny (chief technology officer), Juan Pablo Zepeda Nuñez (chief operating officer) and Alberto Albagli (CSO); a 2022 Diario Financiero article spells the last surname Albagly. The company is based in Santiago, Chile, and its name comes from the Spanish “exámenes médicos” (medical exams).⁠[3][6][7][8]

Accounts of the founding date differ: a 2022 Diario Financiero article says Examedi started in March 2021; LatamList says it was born in May 2021; the Y Combinator company page and a 2024 Diario Financiero article give 2021 (the latter says during the pandemic); a 2023 Diario Financiero profile gives 2020. Forbes Chile writes that he co-founded Examedi during the pandemic, starting with at-home PCR tests.⁠[6][9][8][7][1][4]

Neither he nor his co-founders had experience in health care, but they had experience in logistics; they saw that many problems in health services lay in logistics, such as patients being unable to get an appointment with a specialist when they needed one, and so set out not to change medical procedures themselves but to improve scheduling, sample collection at home or in the laboratory, and the delivery of results. He likened Examedi to an UberUberUber is a technology company headquartered in San Francisco, United States, whose legal name is Uber Technologies, Inc. Co-founded by Garrett Camp and Travis Kalanick, it uses digital platforms to connect riders with drivers, delivery consumers with merchants, and shippers with carriers, with main businesses in Mobility, Delivery, and Freight. Dara Khosrowshahi has been chief executive officer since 2017.Open the full entry for medical services: the patient places an order, a nurse comes to the home to take the sample, and the company links patient, nurse and laboratory.⁠[2]

Diario Financiero writes that he and Andrés Kemeny were accepted into the accelerator Platanus Ventures; Examedi went through the Platanus Ventures program and later through Y Combinator.⁠[1][3]

Examedi took part in Y Combinator’s Summer 2021 batch; the Y Combinator company page describes it as a healthcare-at-home marketplace in Latin America that sends nurses and lab technicians to patients’ homes. After the batch the company raised a $3.5 million seed round.⁠[8][9][3]

On January 6, 2022 the Thiel Foundation named its new class of 23 Thiel Fellows, and Ian Lee was among them. The announcement states that the Thiel FellowshipThiel FellowshipThe Thiel Fellowship is a two-year grant program started by investor Peter Thiel and run by the Thiel Foundation that funds young people who skip or stop out of college to build new things instead. The program has been criticized by figures in education for encouraging young people to leave college.Open the full entry was launched in 2011 to encourage talented young people to pursue big ideas and start companies instead of going to college, and that during the two-year program fellows receive $100,000 and mentorship from the Thiel Foundation’s network of technology founders, investors and scientists, the only requirement being that they pause college and focus on their technology or company. The list gives him as 20 and from Santiago, Chile, and describes Examedi as a healthcare-at-home marketplace in Latin America that connects patients with nurses who carry out clinical lab tests at home.⁠[10][10]

Chócale, a 2022 Diario Financiero article and Forbes Chile all describe him as the first Chilean to receive the Thiel Fellowship, while a 2026 Diario Financiero article calls him the only Chilean in the Thiel Fellowship and describes him at 22 as “el niño símbolo del ecosistema tech chileno” (the poster child of the Chilean tech ecosystem). Chócale writes that only 0.02% of applicants are selected by PayPalPayPalPayPal Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: PYPL) is an American digital payments company that operates payment brands including PayPal, Venmo, Braintree, and Xoom, providing online and in-store payments, money transfers, and consumer credit to consumers and merchants worldwide.Open the full entry founder Peter ThielPeter ThielPeter Thiel is an American entrepreneur and investor, a co-founder of PayPal and Palantir Technologies, and the first outside investor in Facebook. He is a partner at the venture capital firm Founders Fund and founded the Thiel Fellowship, which funds young people to leave college and build new things; his public skepticism of higher education, his support for Trump in 2016, and his funding of litigation against Gawker Media have drawn controversy.Open the full entry; Forbes Chile writes that the $100,000 grant is for people under 21. The 2023 Diario Financiero profile writes that the grant widened his network of contacts and investors.⁠[2][6][4][11][1]

In a 2026 interview he said that he had started young, got into crypto and then won the Thiel Fellowship; he said the grant (which he believes is now about $250,000) is a cushion for the founder personally, not money for the company. As of November 2026 the Thiel Fellowship website states that it gives $250,000 to young people who want to build new things instead of sitting in a classroom.⁠[11][12]

In June 2022 Examedi raised a $17 million Series A led by General CatalystGeneral CatalystGeneral Catalyst (GC) is an investment firm founded in 2000 and headquartered in San Francisco, United States, created by Joel Cutler, David Fialkow and Bill Fitzgerald, that backs companies from the seed stage through growth.Open the full entry, with Thomaz Srougi (Dr. Consulta), Sebastián Mejía (Rappi) and Jamie Karraker (Alto Pharmacy) taking part; he was then 21 and its chief executive, and the company, barely a year old, operated in Chile and Mexico. The money was to go to product development, especially solutions for business clients, and to expansion into more Latin American cities, and the company planned to announce partnerships over the following year. He said the company’s mission of quality, at-home, affordable health care “totally aligns” with General Catalyst.⁠[3][9]

At the time Examedi used an online platform to connect patients with nurses, who took samples or gave vaccines in patients’ homes, while partner laboratories processed the samples; LatamList writes that its services were up to 80% cheaper than the competition, and a 2022 Diario Financiero article that its at-home lab tests cost about 80% less than traditional laboratories. He said the company’s ultimate goal was to “become a healthcare partner of every single Latin American family.”⁠[9][6]

Articles in Diario Financiero and Infobae in 2026 put Examedi’s valuation at this round at close to $100 million.⁠[11][13]

In August 2022, aged 21, he said in an interview with Chócale that Examedi visited a patient roughly every 40 seconds. Examedi offered more than 400 types of blood tests and had added electrocardiograms because they were complementary; a doctor’s order was still required for tests, a step the company handled with an in-house doctor, and patients could also take a test before seeing a doctor. Because patients asked for it, the company added at-home physiotherapy (kinesiología), using the same pay-per-client model and a network of physiotherapists; it introduced a nutrition service based on how a professional on the team said such work was usually done, with blood tests every three months and nurses carrying tools to measure body-fat and muscle percentages at home.⁠[2]

He said that a study found that the five most requested tests cost 46,000 Chilean pesos or less at Examedi against about 200,000 at private providers, that home collection at other providers added about 20,000, and that more than 90% of Examedi’s patients paid nothing extra. Laboratories with spare capacity processed the samples, and bulk pricing let the company pass savings on to users; it served members of Fonasa and the isapres and worked with cajas de compensación and insurers to encourage preventive testing, which he argued also benefits insurers because preventive tests cost them far less than tests ordered after a medical visit. He said the company planned more services for different kinds of patients before the end of the year, such as a subscription for high cholesterol.⁠[2]

In September 2022 Examedi had registered its brand about two weeks earlier to extend it to hospital products and services, clinics, nursing homes, medical centers and psychological, dental, optical, cosmetic surgery, chiropractic, IVF and hair-implant services, with the aim of becoming a health provider rather than just another technology company. He said: “Este es un paso legal, pero que nos abre oportunidades para hacer más tipos de alianzas” (this is a legal step, but it opens opportunities for more kinds of partnerships), adding that as a technology company Examedi had found it hard to get doors opened.⁠[6]

Examedi planned to build an ecosystem around its brand through partnerships with other medical providers and to specialize in chronic patients; it did not plan to run clinics in the short term but, pointing to Brazilian peers that had built large networks of their own, did not rule out a physical network in the long term. It had entered Mexico about four months earlier and was starting to consolidate its business there, and had decided against expanding to Colombia and Peru in 2022 in order to concentrate on Chile and Mexico. At the time he was in San Francisco for conferences and events, and he said: “Vamos a tener varios anuncios en los siguientes meses” (we will have several announcements in the coming months), hinting at partnerships with companies outside health, such as supermarket and sports brands, without naming them.⁠[6]

On November 6, 2023 Diario Financiero published a profile of him at 22. It states that Examedi offered telemedicine and at-home tests, was valued at $85 million in June, operated in Chile and Mexico and served about 6,000 patients a month; he said the next two to three years would be very intense in hiring and innovation, after which they would raise capital again. He said that if Examedi were sold, “después de tres días estaría volviendo a emprender probablemente” (after three days I would probably be starting a company again); in the long term he wanted to keep founding companies, mainly in health and otherwise perhaps in education, chiefly technology education, and he was also interested in logistics and finance.⁠[1][1][1]

He said health was his main concern: “Me encantaría que la siguiente persona que se enfrente a un sistema de salud no tenga más ansiedad por la ineficiencia” (I would love the next person who faces a health system not to suffer more anxiety from its inefficiency). He observed that large clinics had more and more innovation areas and had to adapt to today’s highly technological model of care, that several physical branches were no longer necessary, that prioritizing patients’ time was what mattered most, and that AI so far only replaced administrative tasks and made processes more efficient. He criticized schools for focusing only on the school day, pointing to South Korea, where students go to an academy after school; he likes working in person, said many people treat remote work as an excuse not to be in the office, and said people should communicate ten times more.⁠[1]

In February 2024, aged 23, he travelled to the island of Roatán, Honduras, to attend Vitalia, set within Próspera, with its first center in the Próspera ZEDE; entry to Vitalia cost $500 and could be paid in BitcoinBitcoinBitcoin (common symbol BTC) is an open peer-to-peer electronic cash protocol, network, and native digital asset. Full nodes independently verify transactions and blocks according to the consensus rules; transactions are recorded as UTXOs, and blocks are organized into a public ledger through proof of work. Bitcoin is not issued or managed by any single institution, but using, holding in custody, and trading it still involve key, privacy, market, and legal risks.Open the full entry. He said a friend in the United StatesUnited StatesThe United States is a federal country in North America made up of 50 states, the District of Columbia as the seat of government, and territories such as Puerto Rico and Guam; its capital is Washington, D.C. The Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. The 2020 census (April 1, 2020) counted a resident population of 331,449,281, and the 435 seats of the House of Representatives are apportioned among the states on the basis of the census.Open the full entry, who did not wish to be named, had mentioned the place to him and “me convenció de venir una semana” (convinced me to come for a week); Diario Financiero writes that the friend is a 25-year-old software engineer who has created crypto protocols. There he spoke with Chase Denecke (Bootstrap.io, working on treatments for Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s), Scott Ginebaugh (Cosmica Bio, developing a device that ages cells from a blood sample to identify disease predispositions) and the Argentine Adi Díaz (Life SI, which sells a 3D bioprinter), and he met a woman with five implants in her hand.⁠[14]

He received a gene therapy there, an injection the article spells “Folistanina”, which Diario Financiero writes is permitted only in some places in the world and is still in clinical trials; he documented much of the trip on his personal Instagram. At the time he was founder and CEO of Examedi, which had updated its app to show health trends and was working on biomarker scores from 1 to 100 that flag risky indicators needing attention or treatment.⁠[14]

He described his new routine: 15 supplements a day (which he says are all FDA-approved and were checked with doctors), no carbohydrates at night, no milk in his coffee, split lunch portions and daily training with Sammis Reyes, the first Chilean to reach the NFLNFLThe NFL (National Football League) is a U.S. professional American football league of 32 clubs. Founded in 1920 as the APFA and renamed in 1922, it is organized into the AFC and NFC, with the season culminating in the Super Bowl.Open the full entry, and he said he had lost seven kilograms in December 2023. On longevity he said: “Hoy me mantengo un poquito al margen de todo esto” (today I keep a little apart from all this) and “No me obsesiono con estos temas en particular” (I do not obsess over these subjects in particular), and of the friend who says his body is an experiment and has injected pig brain material, “No sé si personalmente apoyo a mi amigo” (I do not know whether I personally support my friend).⁠[14]

After almost four years as Examedi’s chief executive he stopped serving as CEO from mid-October 2024 and became chief product officer (CPO); he said his “zona de genio” (zone of genius) was building the product, not managing the company. After the two met for coffee in September, he quickly saw that Mariano Werner “tenía que estar en el equipo” (had to be on the team); Werner joined in mid-October as general manager. Werner is an Argentine lawyer from the Universidad de Buenos Aires with an MBA from StanfordStanford UniversityStanford University is a research university in California founded by Leland and Jane Stanford in 1885 and opened in 1891.Open the full entry, a former CEO of Lemontech, a Chilean legaltech company that develops software for court-case management, and a former health division manager at Socofar, the holding company of Cruz Verde.⁠[7][4]

Ignacio Canals (founder of Galgo and Lemontech) and Daniel Guajardo (co-founder of HealthAtom) recommended Mariano Werner to him. In a 2026 interview he said he had arranged the handover himself; the 2026 Diario Financiero article writes that within a few months he understood that Werner did the job better than he did.⁠[7][11]

A 2026 Diario Financiero article states that Examedi later raised a $750,000 round at a $17 million valuation, a down round of about 80%, after which General Catalyst gave up its ownership; he left the company’s day-to-day management in January 2025; and only one of the four original founders still works in the business.⁠[11]

He recalled that during the pandemic Examedi grew from 50 home visits a month to 15,000 and headcount grew with it; when demand for PCR tests disappeared, fixed costs remained, with “100 personas en planilla” (100 people on the payroll). He said: “Mi autocrítica es no haber pivoteado el modelo a tiempo” (my self-criticism is not having pivoted the model in time), and that the company was slow to take drastic decisions such as reducing the team. He said leaving was more personal than financial: his last year was mostly Excel spreadsheets, runway calculations and budgets, he wanted a technical role, “nunca quise ser CEO” (I never wanted to be CEO), CTO or CPO being his ideal job, and he had become CEO because “mi inglés era fluido y tenía un poco más de personalidad” (my English was fluent and I had a little more personality). At the same time he saw his peers from the Thiel Fellowship moving faster, one selling his company to OpenAIOpenAIOpenAI is an artificial intelligence research and product organization founded in 2015 that develops the GPT model series, ChatGPT, Codex and a developer API, and conducts research on image, speech, video and intelligent agents. After its 2025 restructuring, the nonprofit OpenAI Foundation continues to control the for-profit OpenAI Group PBC. Its growth has involved large-scale fundraising and compute partnerships, and has also been accompanied by controversies over governance, copyright, privacy and AI safety.Open the full entry and another joining AnthropicAnthropicAnthropic is an artificial intelligence research and product company founded in 2021 that develops the Claude models, assistant, and tools such as Claude Code, and operates as a public benefit corporation. Dario Amodei and Daniela Amodei are its co-founders, and its research covers model safety, interpretability, and steerability.Open the full entry as one of its first engineers, all aged 27 or 28, and he said: “Me vi mirando el techo” (I found myself staring at the ceiling). He said that after his father’s stroke and his mother’s cancer diagnosis the decision to leave Examedi became inevitable.⁠[11]

He said that when he informed General Catalyst he wanted to leave he expected a reprimand but instead heard “gracias por lo que hiciste por la empresa” (thank you for what you did for the company). Under Werner, Examedi moved toward a model closer to private equity, which he did not want to be part of; he said: “Yo no me salí de la universidad para armar algo con esa estructura” (I did not drop out of university to build something with that structure).⁠[11]

Forbes Chile wrote in 2026 that he left Examedi during a sharp adjustment at the company amid criticism of his management and lifestyle, while he has said he left for personal reasons.⁠[15]

A few months after leaving Examedi he set up the holding company Dropout Capital; he explained that the name reflects his being a university dropout who now hires dropouts. He said: “Dropout es cash flow, es libertad” (Dropout is cash flow, it is freedom). By May 2026 Dropout Capital comprised 12 companies and 20 people, and he said it billed “un par de millones de dólares al año” (a couple of million dollars a year). Its holdings included a medical infrastructure company that reached about $50,000 a month in profit and Tracking Table, a growth platform for restaurants; he also bought a stake in a traditional Chilean food company with about $30 million in annual sales that was losing money, deployed AI agents across its operations and cut its team by 80%. He mentioned Diego, a 23-year-old dropout who had written to him on Instagram for two years saying he was following his advice and who now runs three companies, and for whose family he rented an apartment for two years. By January 1, 2026 he had delegated all of Dropout Capital’s affairs and shut himself away to program.⁠[11][11]

On July 7, 2025, aged 24, he was named to Forbes Chile’s “30 Under 30” in the “Negocios y Finanzas” (business and finance) category, as chief product officer of Examedi.⁠[4]

The idea of returning to venture-scale building took shape in December 2025, with the impetus coming from Gabriel Cid, who was already paying a programmer to build a minimum viable product and kept asking him to take over the development. In January 2026 he founded the AI company Nexor with Gabriel Cid and Daniel Jiménez; the name was suggested by ChatGPTChatGPTChatGPT is a generative AI assistant launched by OpenAI on November 30, 2022. Through websites and applications, it provides conversation, writing, coding, search, file analysis, and image and voice interaction. It evolved from a free research preview into personal, enterprise and education plans, gradually adding deep research, Study mode and cross-application task execution. Its use has prompted continuing discussions about factual accuracy, personal privacy, copyright, education and teen safety.Open the full entry. He is CEO (a role he has said does not suit him) and concentrates on programming, Gabriel Cid is president, and Daniel Jiménez leads commercial expansion and the design of the agents’ sales functions; he said: “Le pusimos 30.000 dólares cada uno” (we each put in $30,000). He coded for two weeks in Maitencillo with his girlfriend’s family, saying “las próximas dos semanas me van a ver de ermitaño” (for the next two weeks you will see me as a hermit).⁠[11][15][16][13]

Gabriel Cid founded the real-estate investment platform Capitalizarme in 2014; Daniel Jiménez is a former expansion manager at Capitalizarme and founder of RAB Inversiones. Diario Financiero writes that he is a Presbyterian and that he and Gabriel Cid are “unidos también por la fe cristiana” (also united by the Christian faith); its August 2026 article writes that the two connected through complementary backgrounds, shared experience as founders and their Christian faith.⁠[16][15][13][11]

Nexor’s first idea was AI agents for complex sales such as property, insurance and cars, which schedule meetings, qualify leads and make direct sales calls in a Chilean voice; he said: “Tenemos conversaciones con personas que no saben que están hablando con una IA” (we have conversations with people who do not know they are talking to an AI). It later repositioned itself as infrastructure for companies to run an AI workforce, describing itself as “la plataforma donde las empresas gestionan a sus empleados de IA” (the platform where companies manage their AI employees). Its website names the company as Nexor AI, Inc. of San Francisco, built by founders from Y Combinator, the Thiel Fellowship and a16z speedrun.⁠[16][11][17]

Diario Financiero writes that Nexor’s product went live in the third week of April 2026 and that its first pilot client was a company “que todo Latinoamérica conoce” (that all of Latin America knows), which it does not name; the Forbes Chile article gives the start of operations as May 30, 2026 (“partimos el 30 de mayo”).⁠[11][15]

He began raising money without an investor deck. After he showed the product by screen share to Vicente Zavarce, a partner at Epakon Capital and founder of the Venezuelan fintech Yummy, they closed $300,000 on that call; with money from friends he raised about $900,000 “sin una sola presentación” (without a single pitch). Soon afterwards, while he was on a trip to Lima, Gabriel VasquezGabriel VasquezGabriel Vasquez is an investment partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), where he focuses on AI application investments and spearheads the firm’s global investment strategy; he is based in New York. Before joining a16z, he was part of the pricing strategy team at Oscar Health and a technology investment banking analyst at J.P. Morgan, and he graduated from the University of Texas at Austin.Open the full entry, a partner at Andreessen Horowitz, wrote to him; again he said “no tengo deck y no voy a armar uno” (I have no deck and I am not going to make one) and offered a screen share. Three conversations later Andreessen Horowitz offered $1 million through a16z speedrun: $500,000 for 10% plus a SAFE for another $500,000 with the valuation left blank; the earlier rounds had been at a $20 million valuation. Nexor is the first Chilean startup in the program; a16z speedrun’s seventh batch was to start at the end of July in San Francisco, where he and Gabriel Cid planned to move, and he said they were aiming far higher than $10 million in ARR (“Apuntamos harto más arriba”).⁠[11]

In the MAS Pitch podcast interview published by Diario Financiero on May 30, 2026 he said Nexor had six people and $340,000 in annual recurring revenue (ARR); comparing it with Vambe, which raised a $14 million Series A with Monashees, he said: “Mis tickets son seis veces más altos” (my tickets are six times higher). Of Examedi’s investors only Platanus declined to invest in Nexor; he said: “Es el único, y lo encuentro razonable: me vieron con muchos otros proyectos andando” (it is the only one, and I find it reasonable: they saw me with many other projects going), and he had not approached the others, who now ask him why.⁠[11][11]

Forbes Chile wrote on July 15, 2026 that Nexor had raised $1.9 million and had $340,000 in ARR in its first months, projected $1 million by the end of July and was aiming for $10 million by December; it began with about six client companies, a number that grew about tenfold within a month of launch, and had a queue of about 900 interested clients, with an average ticket of $900 to $1,000 a month. Its next step was a hub in Dubai, which required separate infrastructure because the United Arab Emirates requires data to be stored in the country; the founders said the company did not need capital for now but did not rule out a round before the end of the year.⁠[15]

On July 22, 2026 Infobae wrote that Nexor had closed partnerships in Miami, Singapore and Dubai; at a launch event attended by about 60 guests the company announced its move to San Francisco to take part in a16z speedrun, with a Demo Day on October 6. Its agents run autonomously around the clock and contact, qualify, schedule, follow up and close leads over the phone, WhatsApp, email and Instagram.⁠[13]

On August 3, 2026 Diario Financiero wrote that Gabriel Vasquez, Andreessen Horowitz’s partner for Latin America, contacted him after learning that he had returned to founding companies, and that after three meetings Nexor was accepted into a16z speedrun, whose cohort admitted 90 of 31,000 applicants, only four of them from Latin America. The program began that week in Los Angeles and ends with a Demo Day in San Francisco in October; Gabriel Cid rented a house for the nine-person team for the three months of the program. The article also states that Nexor reached $1 million in ARR within four months, with 100 clients in 20 countries, 70% of them in Chile, and was aiming for $10 million in revenue and a presence in 30 countries by year-end.⁠[16]

He grew up in the church, and his maternal grandfather was a carpenter who lived in one; during the trip to San Francisco with the Nexor team, the whole team went to Mass on Sunday. He says he retired his parents when he was 18 and has carried the finances of his parents, his sister in Canada and his grandparents in Korea for the past six years.⁠[11][11]

He says he was diagnosed with hypertension at 21 but has never had burnout because “reseteo súper fácil” (I reset very easily); he says the intense pace does not exhaust him and that not thinking about solving problems or building products tires him more. He recently began dating a vegan woman whom he met through “su mejor amiga” (a best friend), and he was vegan for four months to keep her company; he invited her on the three-month trip he had planned as his first vacation after Examedi, having warned her that there would be days when he went to the office at 8 a.m. and came back at 3 a.m., and she accepted.⁠[11]

He says he never felt successful, whether on magazine covers or giving talks, and that appearing in public or not does not matter to him, following Wuicha Larraín’s view “mejor no aparecer y que te vaya bien” (better not to appear and to do well); he is aware that some people check his LinkedInLinkedInLinkedIn is a social networking platform for professionals. It was founded in 2002 by Reid Hoffman and others, launched in 2003, and listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2011; after Microsoft acquired it for approximately $26.2 billion in 2016, it became a wholly owned Microsoft subsidiary. Its revenue comes from membership subscriptions, advertising, and recruitment solutions.Open the full entry to see how long it will take him to fall again. He posts his training routines and screens of his code on social media; in 2025 he reached peak fitness, going to the gym once or twice a day. Since January 2026, when he began building Nexor from scratch, his Whoop band has shown about three hours of sleep a night from Monday to Friday and 14 hours on Saturday; he said: “Volví al founder mode. Totalmente” (I am back in founder mode. Totally).⁠[11]

In the 2026 interview the host noted that he had driven a Ferrari through Santiago’s financial district (Sanhattan) while Examedi was losing money and asked what an investor would think; he said: “Mi contraparte era un MBA de Stanford, nos auditaban las finanzas” (my counterpart was a Stanford MBA, our finances were audited), and that if he had done anything wrong with company money “no estaría en este podcast” (I would not be on this podcast). He said he had done private ventures before Examedi and paid for his family from his own earnings. He said that in Chile “se castiga al que gana plata de forma honrada” (whoever earns money honestly is punished), with people asking whom he robbed, whereas in the United States people ask how he pulled it off.⁠[11]

In a 2026 interview he said that four or five years earlier he had invested in the humanoid-robot company FigureFigureFigure is a US AI robotics company founded by Brett Adcock in 2022. It develops general-purpose humanoid robots and the Helix control system for industrial logistics and household tasks. Its robot generations include Figure 01, Figure 02 and Figure 03, with production pilots at BMW.Open the full entry at a valuation below $200 million, a company now discussed at about $80 billion with Jeff BezosJeff BezosJeff Bezos is an American entrepreneur and investor who founded Amazon in 1994, led it as chief executive for many years, and became its executive chair in 2021. He also founded the spaceflight company Blue Origin, bought The Washington Post in 2013, and set up philanthropic funds including the Bezos Earth Fund.Open the full entry in its latest round, and that “Mi precio de entrada fue 99% menos que la valorización de hoy” (my entry price was 99% below today’s valuation); he also said he had invested early in Anthropic, without giving an amount.⁠[11]

He calls Platanus “el único VC real en Chile” (the only real VC in Chile) and criticizes local investors who ask startups for three-year projections, arguing that a company without product-market fit cannot make them, whereas abroad capital comes in stages that reduce risk as the company advances. He says his aim is to be an angel investor in Chile but that liquidity pushes him toward foreign companies, and calls it a matter of “el huevo o la gallina” (the chicken or the egg), so that in Chile “nadie invierte” (nobody invests).⁠[11]

Examedi: Official website: https://www.examedi.cl/ (opens in a new window).⁠[18]

Nexor: Official website: https://getnexor.ai/ (opens in a new window).⁠[17]

Houm: Official website: https://houm.com/ (opens in a new window).⁠[5]

Thiel Fellowship: Official website: https://thielfellowship.org/ (opens in a new window).⁠[12]