Taggstar EMEA account executive Byron Rodrigues has been with Taggstar since December 2022, but his role today is quite different from his original childhood ambitions. \u201cSince I was a child, I wanted to become a doctor and was obsessed with the idea of med school,\u201d he says. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 2011, at the age of 17, he moved from his Brazilian homeland to Argentina to start med school, but after two years decided it wasn\u2019t for him. \u201cI wanted to be able to explore and travel and didn\u2019t want to lose my youth and the possibilities I had to six or seven years of training.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Instead, he signed up for international business school. Since he loves travel, speaks Spanish and French and was also learning English at the time, he hoped to work in the embassy field or for the UN. A year or so into the course, however, he was invited to do an internship with Google. \u201cI went into the tech field and sales and fell in love with it. I was always really fascinated by technology but also realized I was good at communicating with people and at creating connections and relationships.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 2017 he moved to London to do a Masters in Marketing at Greenwich University, the idea being he would return to Argentina after his studies. But he fell in love with the capital. \u201cI remember my first weeks in London walking around feeling I wanted to move here,\u201d he says. He will apply for his British citizenship next year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Despite only being at Taggstar for a few months, Byron says he has been impressed at the autonomy he\u2019s been allowed. \u201cI felt so welcome. They were like, \u2018Bring your ideas, and we will try to make those ideas come true\u2019. I love that I can be creative, and I felt really good about the trust and ownership I\u2019ve been given, too,\u201d he says. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He was also impressed by the diversity of the company during his interview process. \u201cI was doing some research for one of my interviews and saw a picture on Twitter of one of the charity events Taggstar had taken part in and saw the diversity of people that were part of the business. It was something I was looking for.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And it was only mid-interview that he realised he\u2019d been influenced by Argos\u2019 use of Taggstar\u2019s social proof messaging a few years before. \u201cI was looking for a TV and knew I wanted a specific make and size, but was still overwhelmed by the choice. I remember seeing a message saying this particular model was popular and that 100 people were viewing it right at that moment, and it helped me make my decision!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Citizen of the world <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Outside of work. Byron loves to travel, having first lived abroad in France when he was a teenager. \u201cAt primary school, you had the chance to learn a language, and I chose French. I got fascinated by the language and started learning over the weekends too, and taking extra classes. When I was 14, I got accepted to do an interchange in Millau in the south of France and lived there for six months with a lovely French family. Then I stayed another six months in a student house, finished high school in France, and then moved back to Brazil.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cToday, I consider myself a citizen of the world,\u201d he says. While he enjoys exploring the parks and cafes of London in the summer, in the winter, he prefers to escape. He\u2019s already visited various parts of South America and Europe and, in January, travelled to India for the first time. \u201cIt was incredible. It was very cultural, and I loved the food and the people,\u201d he says. He has Japan, New Zealand and South Africa on his wish list next, as well as a more modest UK road trip \u2013 though he admits as he doesn\u2019t drive, he needs to find a driving partner first. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Byron also loves to write, having started putting his emotions through journalling as a form of therapy five years ago. \u201cI love writing poems and stories, and it\u2019s now become a hobby and an idea for a book(s).\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n He\u2019s rightly proud of the moment he\u2019ll become a UK national in 2024. \u201cSometimes I have to take a deep breath and think \u2018I live in London\u2019. I didn\u2019t come from a wealthy family, so I was always working hard. I\u2019m really proud to think I\u2019m living the dream I never dreamed of,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Taggstar EMEA account executive Byron Rodrigues has been with Taggstar since December 2022, but his role today is quite different from his original childhood ambitions. \u201cSince I was a child, I wanted to become a doctor and was obsessed with the idea of med school,\u201d he says. In 2011, at the age of 17, he moved from his Brazilian homeland to Argentina to start med school, but after two years decided it wasn\u2019t for him. \u201cI wanted to be able to explore and travel and didn\u2019t want to lose my youth and the possibilities I had to six or seven […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-null"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n