The journalist and media entrepreneur Paula Quinteros tells Ricardo De La Blanca about her life of publishing and now digital endeavors, whose success has not been without overcoming major obstacles.
Colombian by birth, Caracas by heart, Brazilian by upbringing and Spanish as a professional, Paula Quinteros arrives at Aprender de los Líderes, Ricardo De La Blanca’s podcast with entrepreneurs from all over the world who seek to collect their experiences as an example that success does not it is exempt from difficulties such as those that we all live in this pandemic.
The story of Quinteros is proof of this, because at an early age he lost his father and had to learn to work out of necessity and overcome obstacles as complex as that. Perhaps that is why he says bluntly that he is clear in his business life that “there is no time when obstacles stop.”
And yet, despite the fact that professionally many times he was able to make a career in various companies, he has always preferred to be creating a company. “The idea of a salary can be finished, whereas that of a company cannot,” he says.
Quinteros is clear that “life never works as one imagines” but insists that moving forward and renewing is the way to success and personal satisfaction. “When one is depressed, that is a mechanism of the body to reinvent itself,” he reflects.
“The media business is very expensive,” he affirms after successes such as Clímax , research magazine, the multimedia project El Estímulo or, since 2014, The Objective Media , based in Spain. “If you have a short-term vision, the media is not a business for you,” he says.
For Quinteros, his greatest success is having managed to form a team that walks towards a north alone, without having to repeat it. And as advice for these times of pandemic, sentence: “Now, fewer dreams and feet on the ground.”
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