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May 2019
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La mejor inversión (The Best Investment)

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Would you build a company based on trust? That’s what social entrepreneur Marcela Torres set out to do when she launched her Mexico City-based startup that paid young people to learn to code. No one believed she could do it, until she did.

A transcript of this episode is available at https://bit.ly/3repZYi.

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