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August 11, 2023 12:49am ET
Applying: Harvard Business School, UPenn / Wharton, Yale SOM
Intake Year: 2024
Pre-MBA Career: Adobe - Amazon - Own Company
Post-MBA Target Industry: Technology, Entrepreneurship
GMAT: 710
GPA: 3.2
Years of Work Experience: 5
Location: Utah
Post MBA Location: Latin America
Notes:

Born and raised in Argentina. I served an LDS (Mormon) mission after high school, and I was assigned to serve in the Arizona. After my mission I decided to come back to study in the US. Coming from a very low income family of Latin America I found the resources to finance my own education by starting a business in Argentina. After getting the funds I was able to come to the US and I got accepted into the Marriott School of Business at the Brigham Young University. I managed and grew the business from the US with the help of my family that started to work for me. I self financed my education while working on my own company and that put me through school. At BYU I studied entrepreneurship and became the president of the Entrepreneurship club. During covid I lost my company and I decided to enter the corporate world. I worked in Business development for Adobe for one year and a half and then worked at Amazon in their Strategic Account management team (US to Europe) managing the overall account growth in new European markets for top US sellers. While working at Amazon I grew my own company into new different locations and now we are in Argentina - Brasil - Chile - Philippines and Europe. Our current revenue is half a million dollars and aiming to hit 1 Million dollars with the addition of Europe - Chile - Philippines this year. At this moment we have a team in each country and the overall headcount that I manage is 12 employees. First generation student to graduate from college and from an international university. My post career goal is to do Venture Capital in Latin America or Entrepreneurship in Latam. I am a father of 1 little girl and married for 6 years. My wife is from Boston and the dream would be to go to HBS due to the great network it has through Latam. Stanford - Yale and Wharton as well as they are internationally recognized and with great connections to break into the VC world. Wharton would be my second choice (finance focus + Lauder program). Due to my business I was able to finance my own school so now I am building a non profit to assist international students with the funds to also fulfill their dreams to come and study in the US. Became a US citizen recently. Currently living in Utah. Fluent in Spanish - English and Portuguese. GMAT 710 - GPA 3.2 - Would my experience + background + GMAT would be good enough to make it to a top business school? What should I change or improve?