Esteban Molina

Overview

I started Kite Commerce to fix D2C food brands for teams who were tired of the workarounds. Previously built and sold a small D2C food brands company. Before that: Mercado Libre and Microsoft. Most at home with marketing and supply chain. I mentor students through university programmes.

Experience

1. Founder

   Jul 2025 - Present
   Kite Commerce · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Lima, Peru
   • Grew the team to 58 people across 5 countries.
   • Previously built and sold a small D2C food brands company.
   • Took Kite Commerce from zero to $11 million ARR.
2. Business Analyst

   Mar 2023 - Jul 2025
   Mercado Libre · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Lima, Peru
   • Brought on-call pages for growth down from 25 a week to 1.
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 36 minutes to under 5.
3. Business Analyst

   Aug 2020 - Mar 2023
   Microsoft · 2 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Lima, Peru
   • Reduced cloud spend on data platform by 31% in two quarters.
4. Consultant

   Oct 2018 - Aug 2020
   Kavak · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Lima, Peru
   • Led a cost programme that saved a client $72 million.
   • Ran commercial diligence on 16 deals.
5. Associate Partner

   Apr 2015 - Oct 2018
   Cencosud · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Lima, Peru
   • Built the experimentation framework 16 product teams use to ship changes safely.
   • Mentored 14 engineers through their first promotion.

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Education

1. IESE

   MBA, Business Administration
   2014 - 2016
2. Universidad Nacional de Colombia

   Ingeniería, Business Administration
   2007 - 2011