Longtime head of product and engineering at Mercado Libre; SVP of engineering at Roblox when they spoke to Lenny's Podcast in 2025.
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David protein bars. They're very good. I, uh, really like weightlifting. It's it's sort of like one of the things I do to get my my my blood flowing. Uh, super high quality ingredients, very high protein.
Lenny's Podcast, "Mercado Libre: 18k engineers, 30k deploys a day, & their own fleet of planes", lightning round, favourite recently discovered product; the guest's own spoken answer (YouTube captions).
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