About this Event
Building between Latin America and the U.S. gets ugly fast.
Markets move differently. Customers expect different things. Teams cross borders and cultures. The pitch deck leaves that part out.
This Ugly Talk puts it back in. 3 Latino founders will share the false starts, hard calls, and mistakes behind the growth.
🎯 Why you should be in this room.
- Hear what building across Latin America and the U.S. actually takes.
- Learn from failed ideas, wrong turns, and hard calls.
- Get specific lessons from founders still in the thick of it.
- See how other builders handle different markets, customers, teams, and cultures.
- Meet founders who understand the friction because they live it too.
💬 What's on the table.
- The version that missed the pitch deck. The false starts, setbacks, and calls they wish they could take back.
- Decisions made without a clean answer. The bets they placed before the outcome was clear.
- Building across borders. The real friction behind different markets, teams, customers, and cultures.
- Lessons earned the hard way. What helped after the original plan stopped working.
- The next hard call. What they would do differently if they started again.
🎤 Featured speakers.
Christopher Saravia - Founder & CEO, Carebox
HealthTech entrepreneur with 20+ years building, scaling, buying & selling companies.
🤝 Who's hosting it.
Christopher Martinez - Founder & CEO, Ziora Copilot
Christopher Martinez is the Founder & CEO of Ziora Copilot and Chapter Leader for AI Tinkerers, Health2Tech and Ugly Talk in Mexico City. He splits his time between Mexico City and New York and has produced founder and healthtech events at Google, One World Trade Center, BBVA and Tecnológico de Monterrey, IBERO, each bringing together 50-150 founders, operators and investors from across the local ecosystem.
🙋 Who's getting in.
- LatAm founders building between Latin America and the U.S.
- Builders managing cross-border customers, markets, and teams.
- Founders at different stages who are still doing the work.
- An application-only room built for honest conversation.
⭐ About Ugly Talk
Started in 2019, Ugly Talk has been transforming business setbacks into breakthrough "aha!" moments by hosting unfiltered, no-nonsense events where battle-tested entrepreneurs share their raw lessons and insights.
With a growing presence in cities like New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and Miami, we've built a vibrant community of thousands of founders and industry leaders making a profound impact on the entrepreneurial landscape.
Official Website: UglyTalk.com
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