A 44-year-old tennis aficionado from Argentina, Szarfsztejn carried himself with the exuberance of a start-up founder – balanced with the weight of responsibility of a managerial heir to Latin America’s most valuable company. “MercadoLibre is the largest company in Latin America and it is still growing at a start-up pace,” Szarfsztejn said following his debut. “There is no growth limit.”With a market value approaching US$120 billion, MercadoLibre processed nearly US$200 billion in payments last year and shipped a record-breaking 1.8 billion items across 18 countries in Latin America. “Galperin's shoes won't be easy to fill, as he developed MercadoLibre into Latin America's largest e-commerce platform,” said Dan Wasiolek, senior equity analyst at Morningstar. “We know where the growth is in our core markets,” Szarfsztejn said.