Ramiro Zandrino

During lockdown he started teaching maths on Twitch to save his brother’s Selectividad. The stream found an audience the industry had written off, so he built it a company. Ucademy is now Spain’s fastest-growing academy: on course for nine million euros, a hundred people, twelve markets, profitable the whole way while raising from Brighteye, Inveready and Sabadell.

Born in Argentina, raised in La Rioja. He wanted to be a footballer until the fractures said otherwise; the companies started at 21. Four ventures before Ucademy, two of them sold. Turned a lockdown livestream into a nine-million-euro company. Still answers his own phone.

Payroll scare, cofounder fight, term sheet you don’t understand. Call. One of us has already survived it.

“Entrepreneurship is not a job. It is a way of living.”