Atlas Lithium Corp (ATLX)

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DIN: Very impressive. What is your background?

MF: I'm originally from Brazil, and I grew up in a middle-class family. I left Brazil after high school to attend MIT and I did very well there — I ended up double majoring. But growing up I wanted to be a doctor, so I went to medical school at Harvard. I did well at Harvard as well; I learned about finance, small companies, private equity, venture capital, and I fell in love with the idea of taking my knowledge of healthcare and medicine and applying it to business. I ended up joining Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) after receiving my MD, but then went back to Harvard and was elected president of the private equity club. From that position I was introduced to many venture capitalists and private equity investors.

Fast forward to today and I've spent eight to 10 years in private equity, venture capital in the US. I've done all sorts of deals, telecom deals, software deals — I became a generalist. Then I decided I wanted to be involved in Brazilian deals; however, the firms I was with were not doing anything international. I ended up setting up a little company that aggregated some capital from US investors, and in doing so I ran into a mining deal that was sent to me about 2010, 2011. I did quite a bit of due diligence on my own, and that led to the formation of a private company that later started producing minerals. That was my entry into mining, and later I received all the other opportunities that were placed into Brazil Minerals.


Just read the highlighted part above - do you really think that Marc will have hard time finding solid long-term investors to be taking care of BMIX and scooping up all of these shares? They fact that we do not know of any large investors besides himself as of yet, does not mean that they are not there ;)

http://www.thestreet.com/story/12937096/1/brazil-minerals-pursuing-profitable-diamond-and-gold-mining.html