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Not From Silicon Valley
David Zabinsky
18 episodes
1 day ago
Launching a dating app in Vietnam. Scaling a farm-tech business in Pakistan. Building a one-of-a-kind, no-water toilet for refugee camps throughout Jordan. Founders from emerging and frontier markets face unique challenges when starting and scaling their businesses. These are their stories. New episodes every other week.
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Launching a dating app in Vietnam. Scaling a farm-tech business in Pakistan. Building a one-of-a-kind, no-water toilet for refugee camps throughout Jordan. Founders from emerging and frontier markets face unique challenges when starting and scaling their businesses. These are their stories. New episodes every other week.
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Melina Cruz Villafaña - Creating a 'Clean' Marketplace in Mexico (Homely)
Not From Silicon Valley
43 minutes 44 seconds
4 years ago
Melina Cruz Villafaña - Creating a 'Clean' Marketplace in Mexico (Homely)

In 2015, the minimum wage in Mexico was $4.

No, not per hour. 

Per day.

So when Melina Cruz Villafaña met Fernanda, an office cleaner, she learned of the harsh schedules that millions of Mexican women have every day:

1. wake up at 5am
2. commute three hours to Mexico City, the capital
3. clean officespaces or homes for an entire day
4. commute three hours back home and wake up a few hours later and do it all over again

It was Fernanda's conversation with Melina that inspired her to start Homely - a marketplace that connects cleaners and users to book safe, conveninient, and most importantly: fair cleaning services throughout Mexico.

But what started as a literal call center in 2015, dispatching different cleaners to different apartments in Mexico City, has transformed into a marketplace coordinating over 15,000 hours of B2C and B2C cleaning services per month throughout all of Mexico, with stories of social impact you'll have to hear to believe.


Not From Silicon Valley
Launching a dating app in Vietnam. Scaling a farm-tech business in Pakistan. Building a one-of-a-kind, no-water toilet for refugee camps throughout Jordan. Founders from emerging and frontier markets face unique challenges when starting and scaling their businesses. These are their stories. New episodes every other week.