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064 Bismarck Lepe| throttling growth engines
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BISMARCK LEPE
Bismarck is Founder and Executive Chairman at Wizeline. He is a seasoned Silicon Valley entrepreneur and investor. He founded Wizeline in 2014 with the mission to help companies build better products faster by making innovation accessible to all organizations. Bismarck is Mexican-American and the son of two immigrants from a small town in Jalisco, Mexico. He left a successful career path as an early employee at Google to start his own online video platform company, Ooyala, which sold for $400M to Telstra in 2014. For more than a decade, Bismarck has pioneered Mexico-Silicon Valley cross-border collaboration with Ooyala and now at Wizeline. Bismarck is passionate about driving economic growth in the global communities where Wizeline operates. In 2015, he founded Startup GDL, a non-profit organization committed to making Guadalajara a leader in innovation.
He is passionate about driving economic growth and developing careers in the communities where Wizeline has operations through the investment in education and development of technology infrastructure. Bismarck has been credited as having contributed to the transformation of Guadalajara into a technology hub through StartupGDL and Wizeline Academy. He has generated over 1,500 jobs and attracted hundreds of millions in investments for companies with operations in Mexico and Silicon Valley.
His newest project is Hispanics in Tech: Almanac, a publication that showcases the positive contributions Hispanic technology founders are having on the broader industry and society. In his free time, Bismarck enjoys spending time with his family and is an avid runner. Bismarck graduated from Stanford with a BA in Economics.
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