Molson Hart

It was eye-opening for me to go to Medellin and Guadalajara and see row after row of people doing work for US companies. I visited one shop that had 300 people handling all the back offices for small fuel trucking companies spread across the US. Finance, billing, website, etc

If you’re looking for startup ideas. There is hugeeeeeee demand for remote labor in Latin America from millennial run (tech-oriented) SMBs and there is no way to access the talent that doesn’t suck. http://Onlinejobs.ph  seems to have done well doing this for the Philippines.

Multinational contractors are able to set up shop and hire in big numbers but their is no Latin American equivalent to finding a a single person in Manila to work for you from home. There’s a huge amount of untapped talent there that is so far inaccessible. Time zones matter!

This feels like something that works very well for SA.

Interesting. I wonder if that’s some sort of cultural thing in LATAM?

I don’t know enough about the culture to say. I’m sure at one time working from home for a foreign company was frowned upon in the Philippines too.

Latam is much more hierarchical than other cultures, I find. I was wondering if that has something to do with it.

Puedo hablar un poco d'espagnol porque frances es muy similar pero no connosco la cultura latina. I don't know, but Filipino culture is definitely hierarchical compared to the USA. We are very flat here. Asia is all about the big boss. Not so en Estados Unidos!