Lessons learned after founding 2 businesses and starting a third one
In this episode of Business Edge, Franco Rossi talks with Eduardo Acuña, founder of several businesses, including Idakoos, Samishop and his latest venture, Butik.ai.
Eduardo tells us about his beginnings as an entrepreneur in the world of ecommerce and marketplaces, where he was very successful with Idakoos until, in his words: “Amazon fought with me”, conditions changed, and this led him to found Samishop.
The exciting journey with Samishop starts from its founding and growth, to the sale of the startup to a Peruvian Corporate Venture Capital, which after some time of operating, decides to close the operation, despite having quite encouraging figures, which leaves you learning about how sometimes the alignment of incentives and investment horizons play a key role in decisions.
To close, his latest venture, capitalizing on all he has learned: Butik.ai. This SaaS allows to manage an ecommerce in an agile and simple way, relying on the benefits of artificial intelligence models such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini and others.
This podcast is a valuable source of information for executives and entrepreneurs looking to grow in a corporate career, as well as in their own companies, with the various challenges of leading large and important companies.
Business Edge is a podcast that seeks to uncover the angle(s) that made the difference in various companies to achieve success. Our goal is to be able to share in a simple and friendly way the keys that can be applicable to other businesses. This program is led by Franco Rossi, founder and investor in various businesses.
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