the magazine “Forbes” was the topic of conversation in the last few hours because it updated its famous list of richest people in the world. This time it was news characters like Kim Kardashian, The ‘socialité’ that came into the ‘top’ and the tycoons Elon Musk and Jeff, Bezos, Who took second and third place, respectively.
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In Colombia there was also news, as the employer David Vélez entered the ranking alongside the other 599 richest people in the world. For this edition it occupied the place number 539.
Vélez is 39 years old, was born in Medellín and is described by ‘Forbes’ as a businessman who became ‘himself’.
According to ‘Forbes’, Velez has a fortune of $ 5.2 billion, A considerable figure that arose from their business in technology. In fact, his company Nubank, A digital bank that offers money management facilities to its customers, has been making strong strides in Latin America in recent years.
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NuBank was born in 2013 in Brazil and also has a presence in Mexico.
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Although Vélez is Colombian, the truth is that he managed to join his fortune in Brazil, Since Nubank was founded in 2013 a Sao Paulo and until last year had more than 30 million customers.
Surprisingly, it only arrived in Colombia until September last year, although its operation had already expanded to Mexico.
However, it obtained a fairly broad stakeholder base, so, as Catherine Bretón, general manager of Not Colombia, AT THE TIME, by then they already had 200,000 people registered to receive a bank card.
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But, according to ‘Forbes’, Vélez’s path was quite long, as he started with a two-story building and ended up creating a financial empire. After his arrival in Colombia told EL TEMPS that he was interested in positively impacting the financial industry and access to the population that had no relation to it.
“We also seek to reach this 50 percent of the Colombian population that is not banked. With our platform we hope to democratize access to the best financial services, so that more and more people can use them, ”he said then.
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