I saw that, even from the very beginning of this talk, tik tok CEO said they would never sell the business to an USA organization, because they don't want it's tech on their hands.
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Companies should stop raising flags about ESG and Amazon rainforest and not do something about it.
We're talking about ~210 million people. We're just below USA in population in the American continent.
It's good for countries like USA to look after us, i believe we will eventually grow, we're still a babe democracy, the military dictatorship ended on the 80's.
So we still have a long way to go but we will get there. Brazil is one of the main SOY and Meat exporter. We're evolving greatly on the tech business preparing the man labor and launching startups on the market.
So yeah, keep a look out for us and let's grow together as entrepeneurs.
What should we do a community? Sometimes i think of preparing for a apocalipse and sometimes i think about doing something to change that from a entrepreneur point of view. LOL
With this drought people are lacking of supplies and even dying by not being able to get to the doctor or nearby hospital.
From my perspective the main problems are illegal deforestation, mining and last but not least narcotrafficking.
My question to my fellow friends here is, how do you see the amazon from outside? What have you heard and seen on the news about it?
So my vision and passion is on, how can we enable to be our selves? And truly connect with one another. Know those people that we meet and time flies?
That's the kind of connection i'm talking about.
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