00:00:00Introducing the $50M Series A Success
00:00:53Escaping the Tech Talent Arms Race
00:01:37Latin American Developers Deliver Results
ABOUT THIS EPISODE
🎙️ The Nearshore Cafe Podcast | Hosted by Brian Samson
In this episode, Brian Samson — founder of Plugg Technologies and host of The Nearshore Cafe Podcast — shares a powerful success story from a booming Series A tech startup based in Atlanta. With over $50 million raised, this company had the resources to hire from anywhere in the world. But instead of battling the fierce 2022 Silicon Valley talent wars, they chose a smarter path: senior full-stack developers from Latin America.
💡 Hear how Plugg.tech connected their VP of Engineering with top-tier developers from Brazil and Argentina, skilled in React and JavaScript, who not only hit milestones but truly integrated into the team — delivering clean, high-quality code and bringing product vision to life.
✅ Topics covered:
- Scaling engineering teams post-Series A
- Why Latin America is a smart talent market
- Real-world results from nearshore hiring
- Benefits of hiring senior nearshore developers
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🎧 Host | Brian Samson – Founder of 💻 Plugg Technologies
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🎙️ Sponsored by Plugg Technologies – Connecting U.S. companies with top-tier software developers across Latin America.
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00:00:01.302 --> 00:00:10.960
Hi, I'm Brian Sampson, founder of Plug Technologies, and, in addition to hosting the Nearshore Cafe podcast, I work with a lot of customers.
00:00:10.960 --> 00:00:24.096
I want to share a success story of a fast-growing Series A tech company in Atlanta that raised a huge round, much bigger than most Series A.
00:00:24.096 --> 00:00:30.589
This one was over $50 million and they had budget to work with.
00:00:30.589 --> 00:00:45.567
They probably could have hired anywhere, but this particular VP of engineering that we were working with had worked with talent all over the world and was already open to working with Latin America, so they had the funds.
00:00:45.567 --> 00:00:48.829
It wasn't even a matter of budget.
00:00:48.829 --> 00:00:52.970
They wanted access to the best talent that they could find.
00:00:53.261 --> 00:01:05.468
Now this happened in 2022, when there was an arms race for talent and companies couldn't get engineers.
00:01:05.468 --> 00:01:07.394
They had massive recruiting teams.
00:01:07.394 --> 00:01:09.304
Door scene was arduous.
00:01:09.304 --> 00:01:11.992
Every engineer had seven other offers.
00:01:11.992 --> 00:01:36.983
So, rather than get into this arms race with Google and Meta and Amazon, we helped them understand the dynamics of Latin America, where, even though wages were going up there too, not nearly at the rate of the US and these hot tech markets, we introduced this VP of engineering to engineers from Brazil and Argentina.
00:01:36.983 --> 00:01:43.275
These were full stack developers that experienced with React JavaScript.
00:01:43.275 --> 00:01:59.088
With React JavaScript, really strong, savvy, creative thinkers, problem solvers and time and time again, this VP of engineering sung their praises, as I almost forgot that they were in Latin America.
00:01:59.088 --> 00:02:02.418
They moved our product forward, they were able to hit their milestones.
00:02:02.418 --> 00:02:06.807
All their code was clean, high quality, and I like them as people.
00:02:06.807 --> 00:02:08.050
They fit right into the team.
00:02:08.050 --> 00:02:15.330
They were on Slack daily standups all the things you'd expect from high quality senior developers.
00:02:15.330 --> 00:02:19.991
So we're very proud to call this customer a reference account for Plug.
00:00:01.302 --> 00:00:10.960
Hi, I'm Brian Sampson, founder of Plug Technologies, and, in addition to hosting the Nearshore Cafe podcast, I work with a lot of customers.
00:00:10.960 --> 00:00:24.096
I want to share a success story of a fast-growing Series A tech company in Atlanta that raised a huge round, much bigger than most Series A.
00:00:24.096 --> 00:00:30.589
This one was over $50 million and they had budget to work with.
00:00:30.589 --> 00:00:45.567
They probably could have hired anywhere, but this particular VP of engineering that we were working with had worked with talent all over the world and was already open to working with Latin America, so they had the funds.
00:00:45.567 --> 00:00:48.829
It wasn't even a matter of budget.
00:00:48.829 --> 00:00:52.970
They wanted access to the best talent that they could find.
00:00:53.261 --> 00:01:05.468
Now this happened in 2022, when there was an arms race for talent and companies couldn't get engineers.
00:01:05.468 --> 00:01:07.394
They had massive recruiting teams.
00:01:07.394 --> 00:01:09.304
Door scene was arduous.
00:01:09.304 --> 00:01:11.992
Every engineer had seven other offers.
00:01:11.992 --> 00:01:36.983
So, rather than get into this arms race with Google and Meta and Amazon, we helped them understand the dynamics of Latin America, where, even though wages were going up there too, not nearly at the rate of the US and these hot tech markets, we introduced this VP of engineering to engineers from Brazil and Argentina.
00:01:36.983 --> 00:01:43.275
These were full stack developers that experienced with React JavaScript.
00:01:43.275 --> 00:01:59.088
With React JavaScript, really strong, savvy, creative thinkers, problem solvers and time and time again, this VP of engineering sung their praises, as I almost forgot that they were in Latin America.
00:01:59.088 --> 00:02:02.418
They moved our product forward, they were able to hit their milestones.
00:02:02.418 --> 00:02:06.807
All their code was clean, high quality, and I like them as people.
00:02:06.807 --> 00:02:08.050
They fit right into the team.
00:02:08.050 --> 00:02:15.330
They were on Slack daily standups all the things you'd expect from high quality senior developers.
00:02:15.330 --> 00:02:19.991
So we're very proud to call this customer a reference account for Plug.
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