Christian Van Der Henst

  • Forbes

    Forbes

    In the Nov/Dec edition of Forbes Central America, they talk about my work as an Investor. Thanks a lot to the team at Forbes. They mention my work at Region 4, Platzi and the good parties in the Mission for Tech Week. Ya disponible en su puesto de revistas favorito (I always wanted to say… Read more

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  • Inbox zero for your brain

    Inbox zero for your brain

    We talk a lot about Inbox Zero for email. Some people extend it to WhatsApp, Slack, notifications. But I’ve been thinking about something different: Inbox Zero for my brain. The idea is that I start every day without a backlog of unprocessed thoughts, half-read articles, or unwatched videos weighing on me. Here’s how it actually… Read more

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  • VibeRacing with Santiago Zavala

    VibeRacing with Santiago Zavala

    Santiago y Christian discuten cómo AI ha transformado la programación, pasando de la escritura manual de código a la “orquestación” de agentes inteligentes: vibecoding. Santiago explica por qué nunca dejó de programar a pesar de ser inversionista y cómo eso le permitió liderar el movimiento “Release Before Ready”, una serie de hackatones donde los participantes construyen… Read more

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  • Recording with Jimena Pardo

    Recording with Jimena Pardo

    Chris Van Der Henst, founder Platzi y Región Cuatro: AI, ambición, comunidad, mentalidad y más| S2E5 Jimena Pardo y Federico son partners en Hi, fondo Mexicano de Inversion. Jimena me invitó a participar en su podcast y tuvimos una excelente conversación. Les dejo los puntos mas importantes: 00:00 | Introducción y la chispa de la… Read more

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  • Barcelona Tips (2026 Edition)

    Barcelona Tips (2026 Edition)

    Since you’re going to Barcelona, I wanted to share a few ideas. I lived there years ago and wrote some travel advice back in 2008 (included at the end of this post). Eighteen years later, much has changed, but the core of what makes Barcelona special hasn’t. Here’s the 2026 version. Walk. Seriously. Skip the… Read more

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  • What is next for 2026?

    What is next for 2026?

    In this year-end conversation of 2025, Freddy and I dive into the seismic shifts happening in software development and tech culture as we head into 2026. This has become something of a tradition: 2024, 2023, 2021, and 2020. We start by questioning whether frontend development as we knew it still exists, then move into comparing the tools reshaping how… Read more

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  • How AI Scraping Gave Me Industry Insider Knowledge

    How AI Scraping Gave Me Industry Insider Knowledge

    I believe everyone should be building tools to do market research about their industry right now. It’s one of the biggest superpowers AI gives us today. I’ve scraped data using Python and various libraries for years. But thanks to Cursor and other AI coding tools, it’s become significantly easier to build AI agents that automate data collection. These agents… Read more

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  • Recording Silicon Salsa #3

    Recording Silicon Salsa #3

    Thanks for asking for more videos with Enzo. I will try to publish one every Quarter with some updated news and an analysis of our Tech World. The opening question this time is about AI bubbles. We also talked about Tech Week, updated on how to take advantage of a trip to SF (make it… Read more

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  • Travel Planning AI

    Travel Planning AI

    There’s this feeling I get when I’m booking a trip. It’s part excitement, part anxiety, part… spreadsheet exhaustion. I’ve been traveling my whole life. It’s given me freedom in ways I can’t fully explain. I love to be in a place where nobody knows my name, where you can reinvent yourself with every boarding pass.… Read more

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  • Recording with Nico Orellana

    Recording with Nico Orellana

    ¡Hace muchos años me enteré de una comunidad increíble en Chile de emprendedores llamada Webprendedor! Y cuando Nico Orellana anunciaba que estaban haciendo cosas maravillosas, yo lo felicité con entusiasmo en los comentarios de aquel blog, ofreciendo mi apoyo. ¡Ese mensaje se convirtió en piscolas, risas y una gran amistad que se ha mantenido durante muchos años!… Read more

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