Germán Montoya

Chief Exponential Officer

Germán Montoya is a serial entrepreneur, and Chief Exponential Officer and Board Member at Rokk3r. He is responsible for setting, communicating and executing the strategic direction of its portfolio companies. He manages the day to day of the growth and delivery teams and looks for exponential opportunities to grow the company organically and through quantum leaps. Germán is also Founding Partner and General Partner at Fuel Venture Capital, a $200M fund that has invested in exponential companies such as Bolt, TaxFyle, and OhmniLabs amongst others.

He is a board member of various startups and organizations and has founded various companies throughout his career. Previously, Germán sold a communications strategy and consulting firm to the DDB Worldwide Communications Group and worked with them for three years of post-acquisition. He worked as a consultant for Accenture, spending most of his time in strategic functions within the financial services industry.

Germán is an economist by education, with a degree from Cornell University and a fellowship from the Kennedy School at Harvard University.

Personal MTP

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What inspires you daily?

What daily inspires me is the possibility of 'a better way'. The analysis of the perceived gap between what is and what could be and its ensuing creation of the solution that ultimately solves those gaps, inspires my every waking moment. To acknowledge my and all of humanity's imperfectness and recognize the tall barriers that remain before we can achieve accessible abundance, is bothersome enough to enact action in me, but the realization that we can all be empowered to affect our own lives and those around us, and that we can actually drive and affect change, is a huge driving force in my personal motivation and quest for meaning.

What key qualities do you keep an eye out for when building strong teams that can succeed?

When building successful teams, I look for self motivated personalities that have a bigger calling and a history of perseverance and grit. Those qualities end up being more important than a group of skills or qualifications. Having said that and having passed that first initial set of prerequisites, I highly value profiles with balanced approaches between intelligent, substantiated thought, and the ability to execute, make decisions and iterate. I also value and resonate more with people that are naturally motivated in getting the bigger things done and can creatively solve apparently insurmountable barriers.

What are some of the technology, business or macroeconomic trends you see that are particularly important as we look to the future?

We live in a time of multiple concurring trends and increasingly, we have more ways to capture more data, to create more models about more things we can now predict with more certainty than ever before. In a way, making trend spotting and influencing itself is probably the biggest trend itself. Algorithms commanding choices are a reality that we see everyday facets such as product choice, health behavior and even political opinion. But more astounding and equally important is the continued trend towards connectivity and equality at least where access to content, information and education is concerned. Billions of people are getting empowered daily and will continue to be more empowered to create actual improvements in their own lives. This radical democratization, in my opinion, will ultimately define how we build the next generation of companies and solutions that cater to our needs, wants and preferences.