Episode
David Vélez - Building Nubank and the Future of Global Banking - [Invest Like the Best, EP.495]
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy · Oct 13, 2026 · 1 h 12 min
David Vélez is the founder and CEO of Nubank, which serves 140 million customers across Latin America. David believes the industry is still in its Blockbuster era, with most of the world's banking still running through branches and incumbent banks, and that AI will make digital banks dramatically more efficient than the incumbents they compete with. He explains how Nubank rebuilt its entire…