In this episode of TBLI Radical Truth, we sit down with Ady Beitler, co-founder and CEO of Nilus — a social enterprise dismantling the "poverty penalty" by making healthy food affordable in low-income communities and food deserts across Latin America.

Through technology-driven disintermediation, food rescue, and community group buying, Nilus is proving that inefficient supply chains are a choice, not a necessity. Ady shares the logistics, the tech stack, and the human story behind a model delivering dignity, nutrition, and scale to the world's most underserved markets.

In this episode:

• The poverty penalty — why those with the least often pay the most for basic goods
• How Nilus uses technology to bypass expensive middlemen and broken supply chains
• How community-led group buying drives down food costs in favelas
• Food rescue — turning surplus waste into affordable nutrition
• The real challenges of last-mile logistics in underserved communities
• Ady's journey from international development to high-growth social enterprise
• What scaling impact across Latin America actually looks like

The key insight: The poverty penalty isn't inevitable. Inefficient supply chains are a design failure — and technology can fix them.

⏱️ Episode Guide:

• 0:00 — Defining the "Poverty Penalty" in food access
• 4:45 — The Nilus model: how tech meets the favela
• 11:20 — Food rescue: turning waste into affordable nutrition
• 19:30 — Group buying: creating collective bargaining power
• 27:15 — The challenges of last-mile logistics in underserved areas
• 35:40 — Future of Nilus: scaling impact across Latin America and beyond

👤 About Ady BeitlerAdy Beitler is a Uruguayan social entrepreneur, lawyer, and international development expert. He holds a law degree from Universidad de Montevideo, a Master's from Harvard Law School, and an Advanced Project Management Certification from Stanford University. Before founding Nilus in 2018, he worked at the Inter-American Development Bank supporting Haiti's post-earthquake reconstruction and led ConnectAmericas.com, a digital trade platform for small businesses. When he discovered the world was discarding enough edible food to feed millions living in hunger, tackling food waste became his life's mission. Under his leadership, Nilus has lowered the cost of healthy food access by nearly 25% for its clients and was recognised among the 100 Ideas That Can Change 1 Billion Lives — with a jury including the UN Development Programme, Acumen, the Global Impact Investing Network, and Sequoia.

If you believe innovation and logistics can solve systemic inequality, this deep dive into the Nilus model is essential listening for impact investors, social entrepreneurs, food security advocates, and anyone serious about building a more equitable economy.

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