Prosus CEO Fabrizio Bloisi discusses building a global tech ecosystem reaching 1.5 billion customers across Latin America, India, and Europe through delivery, payments, and lifestyle services. He emphasizes the underhyped potential of AI to transform businesses and the importance of fostering an entrepreneurial culture even within a large corporation.
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Prosus reaches 1.5 billion customers across three major regions: Latin America, India, and Europe, with an ecosystem that includes delivery, payments, travel, and lifestyle services.
Fabrizio emphasizes that AI is underhyped, citing recent advances in autonomous agents and the ability for non-programmers to create software, which will make companies 100-200% more efficient.
He describes his 'ambidextrous' management approach, balancing disciplined execution with startup-like innovation through 'jet skis'—small, empowered teams that experiment rapidly.
Bloisi expresses frustration with European regulators who forced Prosus to divest its stake in Delivery Hero despite his willingness to invest billions, arguing Europe is hindering its own tech champions.
His goal is to transform Prosus into a half-trillion dollar company within 10 years by becoming a global leader in AI-driven lifestyle ecosystems and agents.
"I am a optimistic CEO founder, but it's frustrating to operate in Europe... Europe is succeeding in avoiding big tech in Europe and succeeding in making the Americans and the Asian big tech chewing in Europe."
"You have to be innovative and disciplined in the same time... being ambidextrous is the concept of you need to respect both of them."
"Dream big. It's possible to change everything. And people usually look to the world and think that's how the world is. It's a lie."