Logra Tu Dream: Helping Latinos Achieve Their American Dream I Inspiration I Mentorship I Business Coaching

013: Creating Latino Startup Success Stories and Role Models w/Jesse Martinez - Logra Tu Dream: Helping Latinos Achieve Their American Dream I Inspiration I Mentorship I Business Coaching

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Jesse Martinez is a Co-founder, Tech Entrepreneur, Philanthropist. He is originally from Houston, Texas, he  found his way to San Francisco in March 1997 where he first experienced what it meant to work for a startup.  He was employee 27, of a Silicon Valley company (funded by Sequoia Capital) that ultimately grew into a thousand employee+ Corporation in less than a year and was acquired for $180 million by Frontier Communications. That experience and access to his new mentors/advisors, led him  to cofound along with his brother in 1998 one of the first U.S. online bilingual Latino communities (Picosito.com) which was recognized by a U.S. Congressional Record by the House of Representatives  for their efforts around technology in Latino Community. They raised $2.3 million in seed capital and had two acquisition offers in less than six months. After the dot com era, he went back to Corporate America; spending over 10 years working with industry leaders such as Xerox Global Services, IKON, & Kofax as a Busine