Jose De Cabo, Founder of Remotely, Why LATAM Engineers Are the Best Kept Secret in Tech

Most companies overpay for engineering talent and underpay the engineers doing the work. Jose De Cabo built Remotely to fix that — a fully transparent model where developers set their own rates and companies cut costs by 50% while getting better talent.

In this episode, Jose De Cabo shares:

• How he analyzed 45 million developer profiles through open-source code audits to find the top 2-3% of LATAM engineers
• Why traditional staffing margins are collapsing and how his transparent pricing model disrupts the 100% markup status quo
• Where AI is shifting the bottleneck from "who can code" to "who can orchestrate humans and agents together"

Jose De Cabo is the founder of Remotely, a Columbia Business School grad turned serial entrepreneur who has been building engineering teams in Latin America since 2010. His company employs 500+ senior developers across LATAM with a team of just 30.

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Sponsor: This episode is sponsored by GreenLight.ai, the modern EOR for the modern workforce.

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