Excited to share our new partnership with Alibaba, the world’s largest B2B marketplace. Thank you Spencer from Bloomberg for covering our story. This milestone is especially close to my heart. My parents have run a toy wholesale business in São Paulo, Brazil for more than three decades. Since I was 6 years old, I was helping them organize paperwork, manage products, handle the cashier, and order inventory from China. I grew up living the very challenges that small business owners face -- balancing day-to-day operations with the seasonality, exchange rates, customs, and shipping timelines that can make or break a business. During the pandemic, when my parents could no longer fly directly to China to source inventory from factories, they turned to platforms like Alibaba. Fast forward to today, I’ve had the privilege of going to Stanford, studying AI with amazing professors like Andrew Ng, and building a company focused on solving the exact pain points my parents struggled with -- now in partnership with the very platform they depend on. Because I’ve been in their shoes, I’ve poured my heart into building tools that help businesses get approved for financing when traditional lenders would say no. Just last week at Alibaba’s CoCreate, I heard these same struggles firsthand from hundreds of buyers navigating tariffs and working capital challenges. Especially in this tough tariff environment, it’s an honor to stand beside these businesses when they need us most and to bring this vision to life together with our partners at Alibaba. Pictured below: Me as a baby in my parent’s wholesale toy shop in Brazil and me now :)