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How Mercado Libre built Latin America's most valuable company: 18k engineers, 30k deploys a day, and their own fleet of planes | Sebastian Barrios
- Sebastian Barrios, former head of product and engineering at Mercado Libre, managed 18,000 engineers and 30,000 daily code deployments.
- Mercado Libre operates with significantly fewer PMs (Product Managers) compared to other tech companies, focusing on product thinking over coding skills.
- They maintain quality with high deployment rates through a platform handling scaling, security, and compliance automatically.
- Mercado Libre places user experience as the top priority before metrics or revenue, emphasizing the importance of nailing the user flow.
- The company culture promotes radical candor, encouraging honest product feedback publicly without personal attacks.
- Teams at Mercado Libre have near-total autonomy with high accountability, focusing on high-level objectives refreshed quarterly.
- Sebastian Barrios' personal habits include only drinking water and avoiding music or altering chemicals, focusing on mental energy.
- Sebastian's leadership skills were developed through unique experiences like being trained 'like a spy' by his mother.
- Mercado Libre's CEO prioritizes user experience, highlighting the importance of understanding how users will interact with products.
- Sebastian employs a weekly email system called 'State of Me' to maintain alignment with leadership and foster transparency.
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