Javier Mata is the founder and CEO of Yalo, an artificial intelligence platform that helps organizations build better conversations with their customers through chat. He was born in Guatemala, an engineer from Columbia University in New York, and founded his first startup at 19 years old. Its intensity allowed him, prior to Yalo, to build 3 companies - one that failed, one that sold, and another that is still profitable. In Yalo, it has the mission of ensuring that more than a billion people have good experiences interacting with organizations in Emerging Markets.