Marcos Galperin
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Bachelor of Arts/Science, Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania | Master of Business Administration, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Argentina
8
e-commerce, Self Made
$2,800,000,000
1425
#1425 Billionaires 2019
Marcos Galperin is founder and CEO of e-commerce platform MercadoLibre, the eBay of Latin America.MercadoLibre, which operates in 18 Latin American countries and Portugal, went public in 2007 on the Nasdaq.Galperin majored in economics and finance at the University of Pennsylvania and got an MBA from Stanford University.He worked at Argentine oil company YPF for three years and as a summer intern at JPMorgan before starting MercadoLibre in 1999.
eBay, once MercadoLibre's largest shareholder with 18%, sold its stake in 2016 for more than $1 billion.Galperin helped organize Argentina's first-ever presidential debate ahead of the country's 2015 elections.
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