The American Dream with Elias Torres

Did you know that Drift is part of the just 2% of VC-backed startups led by Latin American founders? Drift's co-founder and CTO, Elias Torres, is aiming to change that. On his brand new podcast, The American Dream, he's highlighting stories of underrepresented leaders so we can learn how to change the face of corporate America together.

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On the first episode of The American Dream, your host Elias Torres is joined by David Cancel (Drift co-founder and CEO), and Dena Upton (Drift’s Chief People Officer). Elias and DC talk about their backgrounds and upbringing (Elias in Nicaragua and DC in Queens, NY), what it means to be Latin American in tech, how Drift is addressing systemic racism in the industry, and more.

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Elias Torres is back for another season of the American Dream podcast. This season, you can expect more conversations with underrepresented leaders who have pushed themselves to get to the top, raw truths from those who are no stranger to being the "other" in the room, and advice for how to achieve your own version of the American Dream. We're working our way to a more equitable corporate America, and we hope you'll join us. First, a reintroduction to your host.

We're only two episodes in, and we already blew up our own schedule. Why? Because recently, Elias led a conversation with our partners at Inner City Weightlifting that was too important not to share. In this special episode of The American Dream, you'll meet four members of the ICW team who are sharing their experiences with systemic racism and mass incarceration – and the work ICW is doing to drive change by turning suffering into solutions (and mud into flowers)...

Getting more at-bats. Making connections. Pitching investors. Building capital. Playing the long game. This episode of The American Dream is all about the lessons that Elias and his guest Manny Medina (CEO of Outreach) have learned as Latinx founders.

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Easier said than done. That’s how Samara Hernandez describes building her VC firm, Chingona Ventures. Like Elias, Samara ditched her stable engineering career to start her own company, and she hasn’t looked back since.

In this episode of The American Dream, Samara and Elias share stories of what it was like growing up as immigrants in the U.S., how that shapes the way they work, and the imposter syndrome they still feel today...

Be confident, and do whatever you need to do to let that confidence shine. That’s the CEO of ALPFA, Damian Rivera’s, motto – and why you’ll always see him wearing suits with fun patterns on the inside.

In this episode, Elias and Damian talk about what it means to bring your full self to work, especially as a LatinX employee...

In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, we’re lifting up voices from Drift’s own Latinx community.

In this episode, Elias sits down with four members of Drift’s Latinx employee resource group (ERG). Spanning across the marketing, recruiting, sales, and customer success teams, Lorraine Chon-Qui Rodriguez, Luisiana Cruz, Orlando Gomez, and Francisco Oller Garcia share their stories of what brought them to Drift...

Alexandra Paredes (Engineering Manager at Stripe), and Tatiana Carett (Lead Associate at Booz Allen Hamilton) may have grown up 10 minutes down the road from each other in Caracas, Venezuela; but they didn't know each other until they both joined the Latinas in Tech community in New York City...