In this episode, you'll learn:

Michelle is chief revenue officer at D.Local
Michelle was born in Argentina and grew up in the US.
D.Local is a technology company and cross border payments platform.
D.Local enables ecommerce and business to tap into emerging markets.
The model was developed with markets in Latin America and is now being rolled out in Eastern Europe, South-east Asia and India.
The CRO is the face of the company alongside the CEO; they drive strategy and act as a presence for the company in the technology world.
Michelle oversees the sales and operations teams whilst also working with the product and marketing teams.
Michelle has worked with some of the biggest technology companies, for example Uber, Facebook and Airbnb.
D.Local works with emerging consumers who are coming online and want to buy and so she gives them the capability.
The world of payments is very male focused as it's mostly bankers.
Michelle was the first woman on the payments team when she was a Facebook.
She believes that because of this it's important all women in Silicon Valley support each other.
Michelle sees that things have changed in the last 5 years and there has been an increase of women in the room.
Michelle was responsible for payments of Facebook messenger and she holds the patent, but a man got the credit.
Michelle asks her team to each send her a weekly report of their achievements and the male/female divide is noticeable.
Women say "we" and men say "I".