Start-Up Chile

And so there's a lot of progress being made there and definitely would call out the support for entrepreneurs as well.

The Startup Chile program was our way of starting our business because Chile's government provided that opportunity through that initiative.

They're very open-minded.

It's actually a really great balance of having really well set up infrastructure while not too much bureaucracy and red tape that you might run into in Europe or North America.

So my roommate in Sydney, Australia was funny enough, just moved into a spare room on Craigslist ad, was actually grew up on Block Island in Rhode Island.

And he was also undergrad mechanical engineer, but he got into finance, was working at Ernst & Young, loved surfing.

connected our love for the ocean environment and he always admired my work in sustainability but i was kind of getting burnt out and it just kind of doing reports have another meeting have a report to have a presentation have a meeting and no real change happening and we always just talk offline about what if we could combine our skill sets do something we more we're more passionate about And when I came to Chile, I was really introduced to not only this incredible coastline, but also that Startup Chile program that next application just happened to be in six months from now.

And I just relayed it back to him.

We need to do as the Dilma T CEO told us here, we need to improve our position in the value chain, basically start building Chilean brands and exporting them.

Is that something that the government has an interest in developing? I mean, you would think Start-Up Chile some decade and a half ago, "Come and we'll just give you free money, build a business here, help put us on the radar." It doesn't seem to have worked according to your description.

I'm wondering if the government's invested in making it work as a brand.

So, I mean, so Start-Up Chile was tech.

It was a tech-based thing.

They're trying to produce like a mini Silicon Valley in Chile, and I think, uh, it has actually...