Magazine Forbes was the topic of conversation in the last few hours because he updated his famous list of the richest people in the world. On this occasion, characters such as kim Kardashian, The “socialite” who came to appear in the “top” and tycoons Elon Musk and Jeff, Bezos, which ranked second and third, respectively.
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There was also news in Colombia as a businessman David Velez entered the ranking along with the other 599 richest people in the world. For this edition he was ranked 539th.
Vélez is 39 years old, was born in Medellín and is described by Forbes as a “self-made” businessman.
According to Forbes, Vélez has a fortune $ 5.2 billion, a considerable figure that was taken from their technology business. In fact, your company Nubank, a digital bank that offers its customers money management facilities, has evolved strongly in Latin America in recent years.
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NuBank was born in 2013 in Brazil and has a presence in Mexico.
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Although Vélez is Colombian, the truth is that he managed to amass his fortune Brazil, since Nubank was founded in 2013 in Sao Paulo and until last year it had over 30 million customers.
Surprisingly, it only arrived in Colombia until September last year, although it has already expanded its operation. Mexico.
However, it has obtained a fairly broad stakeholder base, as, according to Catalina Bretón, the Director-General of Not Colombia, at EL TIEMPO, by then they already had 200,000 people registered to receive a bank card.
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But, according to Forbes, Velez’s journey was quite long, as he started with a two-story building and ended up creating a financial empire. Upon arrival at Colombia stated for EL TIEMPO that he is interested in having a positive impact on financial industry and access the population that had nothing to do with it.
“We are also looking to reach that 50% of the non-banking Colombian population. With our platform, we hope to democratize access to the best financial services, so that more and more people can use them, “he said at the time.
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