Néstor Esquivel
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Néstor Esquivel

I’m a Mexican entrepreneur and operator, curious about technology, complex systems and building things from the ground up.

Right now, I’m learning how to build and operate an AI-first company.

Boston · Mexico City
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present tense

Who I am and what I’m doing now.

I’m building Angy, a healthcare technology company using AI to rethink how care is delivered and how healthcare operates. We’re building between Boston and Mexico, and we’re just getting started.

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I’ve spent my career across consulting, strategy, technology, operations, mostly working with complex businesses in Latin America.

Today, those experiences are coming together around artificial intelligence and healthcare.

With Angy, I want to build intelligence and infrastructure that can help healthcare operate better and make better care more continuous and accessible.

Angy started at MIT in 2026 and is now being built between Boston and Mexico. We’re starting in Mexico, but thinking globally from day one.

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compound(ing)

The work and experiences that shaped my path.

My career has evolved across industries, countries and different sides of the table, driven by exploration, innovation, high standards and a constant appetite to learn.

Different chapters. Different problems. And always looking for more complexity.

It compounds.

MIT Sloan Fellows MBA

Class of 2026

I came to MIT to deliberately expand my world [People, Perspective, Frontiers] and challenge the scale of what I thought possible and how far I could go.

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New ideas, new knowledge, and new ways of seeing the world, many of them coming from people very different from me. A deeper look at healthcare, AI and entrepreneurship. And the space to rethink my own assumptions about leadership and self.

Most importantly, to decide where I want to put my time and energy from now to 2036.

The answer: AI + healthcare. Using what I know and what AI now makes possible to help improve people’s lives through better, more accessible care.

DRAIVER

What a ride

I joined DRAIVER as its first employee in Mexico to launch the operation from zero. My first real chance to build and operate a complex system in the real world.

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DRAIVER is a US technology company that coordinates vehicle movement through a network of independent drivers.

Building Mexico meant figuring out almost everything as we went, from customers and drivers to the team and the economics behind the operation.

Within a year, we were operating across Mexico, working with more than 500 drivers and supporting thousands of vehicle movements.

It was fast, intense and incredibly fun. It’s probably where I stopped being a consultant and became an operator.

X-VP

Early-stage investing

What started as doing due diligence on startups eventually became my first entrepreneurial venture: a pre-seed fund investing across Latin America.

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Together, we raised and launched the fund and invested in eight startups, including Aviva, Cubo, Paga and Worky.

It gave me the chance to look at companies from a completely different angle: markets, founders, business models, competitive advantages, and what could scale.

Now that I’m building again, I find myself using that perspective from the other side of the table.

Labs & OPI

Exploring the frontier

Innovation is where I thrive, and by far my favorite playground for exploring new ways to create value.

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At Sintec Labs, I led innovation work across Latin America, exploring new technologies, working with startups and turning promising ideas into things companies could actually use.

Later, at OPI Analytics, I went deeper into machine learning. Working with engineers and data scientists, I helped build and commercialize a portfolio of B2B ML solutions for large companies.

Today, the playground looks different. Generative AI and AI agents have opened up an entirely new space of possibilities.

Sintec

Consulting

It’s where I learned to work at a very high standard. Most of my twenties went there, along with some of my best friends.

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I joined Sintec as an analyst in the Mexico City office and, over almost a decade, worked across industries, companies and countries throughout Latin America.

Transportation, distribution networks and go-to-market strategy were my foundation. Later came analytics, IoT and all kinds of unusual innovation projects, usually with a little room to bring my own curiosity into the mix.

I grew up professionally there. I had mentors who invested enormously in me, teams I learned from constantly and colleagues who became some of my closest friends.

A lot of how I work today started at Sintec.

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curious(ed)

What occupies, and has occupied, my mind.

I tend to fall into rabbit holes and go much deeper than I probably need to.

Right now

Artificial intelligence

AI is probably taking up more space in my head than anything else right now.

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I came into it through analytics and machine learning, but generative AI changed the scale of what seemed possible. Agents are pushing that even further, moving software from generating information toward actually doing parts of the work.

I’m learning every day: trying new tools, integrating them into how I work, and developing better judgment about where AI should take over and where human judgment should remain essential.

The technology is moving faster than any previous technology cycle I’ve experienced, which makes the questions around it even more interesting.

What should we automate? What shouldn’t we? How do we stay relevant as the capabilities keep changing?

A lot of my days now are spent somewhere inside those questions.

Healthcare

Healthcare is the industry I’ve decided to go deep on. Complexity at its max.

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Physicians, patients, workflows, incentives, technology, regulation, institutions. Everything touches something else, decisions rarely happen in isolation, and their implications are longitudinal. Feedback loops can take years to close, making cause and effect difficult to see.

My interest started closer to home, through my family, and later became something I explored academically. Building Angy is where that learning is becoming real.

But the bigger questions are around access, prevention, how clinics and hospitals operate, and what becomes possible as intelligence gets embedded into healthcare infrastructure.

There is a lot I don’t know yet. That’s part of why I like it.

Human behavior & decision-making

The more time I spend with people, the more interested I become in how they think and act.

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Incentives, behavior, judgment. Why people make the decisions they make, and how changes in the environment around them, small or large, can produce very different outcomes.

I first became interested in this through organizations, navigating them from the inside through different projects and transformations. Now I’m trying to build one while figuring out what it means to work symbiotically with AI.

As models and technology advance, we have to adapt alongside them. That requires new skills, new ways of thinking, and better judgment about how humans and machines should work together. We can observe more, learn faster, and intervene in increasingly personalized ways.

I’m curious about how far that can go, from our own habits to organizations and, perhaps eventually, policy.

Always somewhere around

Systems thinking

This is probably the oldest curiosity on the list.

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I studied Industrial Engineering with a minor in Systems, and that’s probably where it started. I still naturally approach problems by trying to understand the system around them and the dynamics that shape how it behaves.

The intertwined relationships between people, processes, and technology. The patterns and archetypes that repeat across seemingly different problems. How behavior emerges over time.

And, perhaps most interestingly, what happens somewhere else in the system when you change one thing here.

It’s probably why so many of my other rabbit holes eventually end up here too.

Supply chains

Transportation and logistics were some of my first professional obsessions.

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I loved network design: figuring out where things should move, where things should be stored, and how to reduce distance and kilometers traveled while balancing cost, service, capacity, temperature (iykyk), and everything else the system throws at you.

I liked the field enough to make it my first degree after college, completing the first cohort of the MITx MicroMasters in Supply Chain Management back in the early days of MOOCs.

Sometimes it really came down to: how many more boxes can we move with fewer trucks, fewer miles, and less money?

Climate

Climate has never been my primary field, but I’ve kept coming back to it.

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Transportation first got me thinking about the tension between economic optimization and environmental cost. Later, I worked as an Advisor to Energías Limpias de México around strategy and operations, which gave me a first glimpse into a much bigger world.

For now, I mostly watch and learn. You can’t seriously pursue every big problem at once, and my attention is in healthcare today. But climate is one I want to keep understanding, building the capabilities and perspective to contribute more meaningfully over time.

hu-man

The more physical, creative, and aesthetic parts of life.

Prometeo

Post-pandemic, many mornings started before sunrise in Desierto de los Leones with the same group of friends. We ran. Then we ran farther.

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5Ks became half marathons. Half marathons became marathons. Roads became trails. Trails became ultras. Eventually, one of those days ended after 100 kilometers.

But what stayed with me most was everything around the running: years of showing up, early mornings in La Mexicana or El Convento, trips, races, and a group of people who became some of my closest friends.

Prometeo was always much more than running.

Four friends on a ridge in Desierto de los Leones

Yoga

Yoga is a relatively new friend. Two years in, I’m on my way to my first 500 hours, and I’d say I know about 3% of it.

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Somewhere along the way, it became a constant in my life. With everything else moving fast and getting complicated, I’ve found I need a place where I can disappear for an hour, train, and think about almost nothing else. Or not.

The deeper I go, the more there seems to be.

Music & records

Some of my best memories are listening to Radiohead and cha-cha-chá in my grandparents’ room.

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I collect records, take my Discover Weekly seriously, Shazam songs as a hobby, and tend to frequent places with good music.

Maybe one day I’ll become a famous DJ. For me and my Lomo.

A playlist →

Writing

Every once in a while, the cache gets full. Writing is one of the ways I empty it.

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I write occasionally, usually when something has been sitting in my head long enough that I need to put it somewhere. It’s still a fairly intimate collection.

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matters

What I care about.

I want to improve the lives of other people.

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I’ve learned that doing your best work means trying to align a few things.

What you’re good at.

What you care about.

What keeps you curious.

Where you put your time.

And what you ultimately want that time to be in service of.

That alignment isn’t always comfortable. It takes time to figure out, and often means taking risks or giving something else up.

But if I’m going to spend a meaningful part of my life building, I want to be deliberate about the direction I build toward.

For me, that direction is healthcare.

I want to build. I want to create real value. I want to work on difficult problems with people I admire.

I have a long-term dream of helping build a decentralized network of clinics and hospitals. I have no idea what shape that will eventually take, and I’m comfortable with that uncertainty.

The shape can change. The direction is much clearer: build things that can improve people’s lives.

That feels worth putting the time and energy into.

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connect

Where to find me.

A lot of what I know came from people who were generous enough to share their time, knowledge, and help. I keep that door open both ways.

Open to conversations about AI and healthcare, advisory boards, and most of the rabbit holes above.

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