The date was in the restaurant Cipriani from Doha, on December 13. They met at noon because that night the semifinal between Argentina and Croatia was being played. Mauricio Macri was the main figure and among the diners there were two unicorns: the owner of Mercado Libre, Marcos Galperin, and Globant’s, Martín Migoya. The businessman Alejandro Braun Peña and other entrepreneurs such as Juan Collado from Salta and Tomi Pierucci from Buenos Aires were also present.
Galperin was dressed in an Independiente de Avellaneda club shirt and was accompanied by his wife, biologist Karina Hogg. Miguel Galperin was also there., the older brother, who runs the family tannery. A lunch with friends. In fact, Galperin is one of the investors in the company Warmi, owned by Juan Collado, a spinning mill based in Jujuy. Collado is known to Macri because in 2015 he had a brief foray into politics as a candidate for governor of Salta. From those years, in the North, the anecdote of the day Collado was asked about his potential policies for the LGBT community and he responded thinking that the bus was public transportation is remembered. As Tusam said: “It can fail.”
To the table. Galperin was sitting to the right of Macri and Tomi Pierucci to the left, a young entrepreneur who in the past had launched a smart suitcase called BlueSmart, which could be connected to the phone and provided information such as weight, geolocation and other data, but it was banned for carrying a non-removable battery. That December 13, after Argentina’s game against Croatia, Pierucci posted on Twitter a reflection that was discussed at the table that same noon: “If it weren’t for how corrupt the AFA and Argentina are, added to the unpresentable Sampaoli for having wasted the best moment in the history of Messi, on Sunday we would play for the fifth star. Two finals in 8 years. Superlative about Messi ”. Pierucci wanted to say that Argentina, with Messi at the helm, could have won the finals in 2014, 2018 and 2022. Perhaps he didn’t remember that in 2018, the president of “corrupt Argentina” was the man he had at his side. right.
Pierucci is also a friend of the founder of the Fintech Ualá, Pierpaolo Barbieri, who they ran into at the stadium. Barbieri had a fleeting encounter with Galperin on the Doha subway, where the young entrepreneur wanted to hold a dialogue with the owner of Mercado Libre. But apparently Galperin doesn’t like Barbieri, so he would have been elusive in conversation. Digital internals.
The meal at Cipriani took place between various themes, such as soccer, appreciations of the Arab world and a bit of politics. Cipriani is a restaurant that Macri likes. In 2018 he had dinner with Christine Lagarde at the New York branch and last year he was in Miami with Nicolás Dujovne.
Business. With most of the diners who had lunch at Cipriani in Doha, Macri usually coincides in other contexts. For example, with Martín Migoya he usually spends his summers in Villa La Angostura. The founder of Globant has a hotel complex there called La Escondida. Migoya usually takes Macri and his family for a walk on his yacht on Lake Nahuel Huapi. The friendship between the two also translates into business. In April 2021, this magazine revealed that the former Argentine president organized a meeting between Gianni Infantino, the FIFA president, and Martín Migoya to develop FIFA+, a Netflix-style streaming platform for the federation that organizes the World Cup to turn there all the content available like old matches, documentaries and even live stream your sporting events. The platform was launched this year. As part of that business, Globant had an advertising presence in the matches in Argentina.
During his presidency, Mauricio Macri gave the example of unicorns -Argentine technology companies that are worth more than a billion dollars in the market- as the paradigm of progress and entrepreneurship.
Galperin’s Mercado Libre was the example he used the most, but after Macri’s defeat, the businessman left the country. Perhaps, now that Argentina is world champion, they will want to return.
