A escalável, fintech known for being the credit bank of startups, gathered on day X more than 100 leaders from the technology sector for a different class. Instead of talking about sales, artificial intelligence or blockchain, the event "The Empire of the Founders" addressed leadership lessons from great names in history such as Aristotle, Alexander, the Great and Julius Caesar
We were tired of the same old events, with the same themes and the same speakers. It is no use knowing about technology and not mastering leadership values, what are timeless. We wanted to do something different for our clients, investors and partners, explain Marcelo Bragaglia, CEO of Scalable
Guilherme Freire, philosophy professor, was responsible for teaching the class. "It was an experience I had never seen before", and that certainly caught our guests by surprise. A very wise person once told me that the path to wisdom was to learn from the dead… Good, I think we did that very well, comment Bragaglia
The event was closed and exclusive to founders, C-levels and Venture Capital fund managers, held at Cubo Itaú, the largest technology complex in Latin America. During the class, participants were able to reflect on how great leaders in history can inspire and bring lessons to the business world
"The typical startup founder has more in common with Alexandre", the Great than one imagines. At 22 years old, he invaded the largest empire in the world with 40 thousand men and resources only for 30 days – The Persian Empire -, consolidated and with more than 300 thousand combatants. The most logical thing would be for the opposite to happen, just as it would be most logical for the startup to be swallowed by the incumbent. This was something almost impossible, notwithstanding, it is precisely in this term – almost impossible – that defines the virtue of courage. Courage is when we set out to do something that the chances are statistically minimal, and that even so we do. In Brazil, 4 out of 5 companies close their doors in the first 3 years, that is to say, the statistics are against the entrepreneur – just as he was against Alexander, Bragaglia analysis
