About the Speaker
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Marcos Galperin, MercadoLibre
Event: Global Speakers Series
Date: Thursday, March 3, 2011
Mr. Marcos Galperín co-founded Mercadolibre, Inc. in October 1999 and has been the Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer since October 1999. Mr. Galperín serves as the Chief Executive Officer of MercadoLibre.com. He served as Secretary of Mercadolibre, Inc. He worked at YPF S.A., an integrated oil company, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he was a Futures and Options Associate and managed YPF’s currency and oil derivatives program from 1994 to 1997. He served
Selected Articles
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- MercadoLibre’s Profit Grows More Than 40%Forbes, 2/23/11
MercadoLibre, Latin America’s largest e-commerce group, posted earnings after the bell on 2/23, beating Wall Street expectations and managing to sustain margin growth on a growing customer base and the adoption of its own online transaction platform, MercaodPago. - E-Commerce Sales Soar As Latin America's Households Get Wired.Investors Business Daily, 12/12/09
Marcos Galperin saw the future of Latin American retail while working on his MBA in 1999. - Latin America's E-Commerce LeaderForbes, 3/21/08
Although MercadoLibre had a rocky start, the company has started delivering stellar results, growing at over 60% and profitability is increasing steadily. The moral of this story: It takes patience to build a great company, even in Internet time. - Stanford comes good for online start-up Graduate school was the perfect place to build Latin America's biggest online auction siteFinancial Times, 4/7/08
"I could not have done this without the MBA," Mr [Marcos Galperin] says. "I could perhaps have done something in Argentina - I was very entrepreneurial and I liked the internet from (the) very early days. But the possibility of raising funds, contacting investors, building a network across Latin America would have been impossible in such a short time." - Alums Build Better Markets in Latin AmericaStanford Business, 11/2006
Without his formative experiences at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, CEO Marcos Galperin, MBA ’99, says his company—considered the eBay of Latin America—would never have gotten off the ground.
Cases
Video
Arjay Miller CFO lecture
Nicolas Szekasy, MBA ’91, tells a GSB audience about his experiences as chief financial officer of MercadoLibre.com, "the eBay of Latin America". Part of the Arjay Miller CFO Lecture Series.
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MercadoLibre NASDAQ closing bell
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