Elisa Pereira spent nearly a decade deploying AI solutions across Latin America before turning to research. As a Master’s candidate at Stanford GSB and researcher at the Digital Economy Lab, she works with Erik Brynjolfsson on questions of AI value creation and what it takes for organizations to capture the full potential of the technology.
Before Stanford, she was Director and Partner at 39A, a technology venture studio in São Paulo, where she led projects ranging from AI sales agents and machine learning models for non-obvious credit decisions to multi-agent systems for legal process pricing. Earlier in her career, she worked in venture capital and strategy consulting, investing in startups and advising major companies on growth.