The complaint Damián Scokin, CEO of Despegar: “The most precious company in Latin America has its deposits blocked”

Damián Scokin, CEO of Despegar, attended the cycle this Tuesday democracy and development organized by Clarín, where he spoke about the values ​​of the company, questioned the stigmatization of success and failure in Argentina and highlighted the problems with unions in Argentina.

“We did a political panel, we talked about the super cooperation agreement and that the board of I don’t know what, all barbaric, but The most valuable company in Latin America has its deposits blocked and those who do have legal protection, there is no action, and he is the government’s model trade unionist “, Scokin reflected after the denunciations of Juan Martín de la Serna, president of the Mercado Libre Argentina.

The businessman, laughing, talked about how investors see some situations that exist in Argentina. “Will you ask me for money to invest where, in a company that validates blocking things as a method of conflict resolution?” he asked harshly.

And he accused the trade unions of “extractive institutions”, under the protection of a certain part of society, in harmony with a government that “makes macro schemes of cooperation and treats the dead”.

Scokin then highlighted the “learning” and “culture of dynamism” that the coronavirus crisis has produced in the tourist travel industry.

“We are a tremendously solid company in all dimensions, technology, market, we have changed equipment, we are important in Mexico, Brazil, it has been an intense exercise to go from selling 5.6 billion dollars to the negative. Interesting for once in the life, “he said between laughter.

Finally, he left a reflection for the future. “The challenge is to talk about the things that need to be talked about, discussed and agreed so that they are not isolated cases, that we stop being isolated success stories and that development is a generalized phenomenon this benefits society, “he said.

The cycle Democracy and development proposes to discuss how to get Argentina back on the road to development. The first two meetings have already taken place. The first, on 17 May, analyzed the Basis for growth, with one table focusing on the economy and another on legal certainty. The second was on June 16 and dealt with human and physical capital, education and infrastructure needed for development. This is the fourth edition of the Democracy and Development cycle.

The second part of the meeting was dedicated to the protagonists of Argentina, which has already generated 12 technological unicorns, companies worth over 1,000 million dollars. This segment was attended by the founders of some of the most important companies in the sector: Martín Migoya, from Globant; Alex Oxenford of DeRemate, OLX, Alpha Capital and LetGo; and Emiliano Kargieman, of Satellogic.