#171 - Santiago Gomez, Simetrik: the journey to a $55M Series B
Latitud Podcast5 Mar 2024

#171 - Santiago Gomez, Simetrik: the journey to a $55M Series B

Back in 2018, Santiago Gomez and Alejandro Casas were just two young and hopeful founders, fresh into YC. However, with a team of 25 working on an e-commerce business, they struggled to find funding. "There's no founder-product fit", the investors would say. After a while, it clicked that their passion was elsewhere. They were challenged by a mentor to kill the startup and start building something, just the two of them, that really lit a fire under their feet. Oh yeah, and they should ...

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