The journey of a founder, covering topics like building a sustainable business, achieving product-market fit, and the pursuit of excellence.
The journey of a founder, covering topics like building a sustainable business, achieving product-market fit, and the pursuit of excellence. It also touches on lessons learned from Y Combinator and navigating startup challenges during COVID-19.
Let's say you're able to to stop that younger self and give that younger Julio one piece of advice before launching a business. What would that be and why given what you know now? >> Look, something I've learned I borrow from martial arts which is a discipline I um I practice a lot. It's a quote that says um slow is a smooth, smooth is fast. And I think in in uh technology especially, I think we often times lose sight that what truly matters is to build a fundamentally strong business, a sustainable business for the long run. I think um you know slow is a smooth, a smooth is fast to to me means you know go through the motions at the beginning slowly. Learn learn to operate with precision. Allow yourself to have the best product the key cash product in your category. So when you know you put go to market dollars into play and into investment like you can really get going to get a g
a yield out of them like make make sure make sure you have those foundations in place because if you look forward like hey if you go to 100 million 200 million 300 million 500 million in AR um you know if you did it one year half a year two years a little bit faster a little bit slower like who cares what matters is that you created a big difference in the industry and especially in your customers lives.