From Mexico to the World: When a Startup Stops Copying and Starts Asking What It’s For
A Mexican fintech signs a deal in Madrid, a logistics founder wakes up to Slack pings from Manila, and a compliance engineer in Guadalajara wonders what all this efficiency is really buying us. Over one long day in their intertwined lives, this essay follows how Mexico’s “hard‑mode” startups became global category creators—and then circles back to an older, Socratic question: to what higher purpose, and at what ultimate cost?
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