The Nearshore Cafe
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The Nearshore Cafe
🚀 $50M Series A Tech Startup Scales Fast with Nearshore Talent | Brian Samson | Plugg.tech
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🎙️ 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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Introducing the $50M Series A Success
Speaker 1Hi , I'm Brian Sampson , founder of Plug Technologies , and , in addition to hosting the Nearshore Cafe podcast , I work with a lot of customers . 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 . This one was over $50 million and they had budget to work with . 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 . It wasn't even a matter of budget . They wanted access to the best talent that they could find .
Escaping the Tech Talent Arms Race
Speaker 1Now this happened in 2022 , when there was an arms race for talent and companies couldn't get engineers . They had massive recruiting teams . Door scene was arduous . Every engineer had seven other offers . 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 .
Latin American Developers Deliver Results
Speaker 1These were full stack developers that experienced with React JavaScript . 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 . They moved our product forward , they were able to hit their milestones . All their code was clean , high quality , and I like them as people . They fit right into the team . They were on Slack daily standups all the things you'd expect from high quality senior developers . So we're very proud to call this customer a reference account for Plug .