A True Underdog Story w/ Edrizio De La Cruz

This week on The #MiamiTech Podcast the hosts chat with Edrizio De La Cruz.

Edrizio is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, investor and occasional stand up comic :-)

He’s a Dominican immigrant who grew up in Harlem. He dropped out of college to work as an aircraft technician to help make ends meet. He ultimately went back to college, worked on Wall Street and earned an MBA from The Wharton School.

In 2013, he co-founded Arcus, a fintech company. He worked with an incredible team to build the company from scratch to 100+ employees, 100+ clients and raised $19M in funding from Y-Combinator, Ignia, Softbank and Citi Ventures. In 2021, the company was sold to Mastercard.

Topics on Deck:

- Hitting Rock Bottom & Persevering
- Wining 200K with Visa Everywhere Initiative
- Getting Acquired By Mastercard
- His Time As A Partner At Y Combinator
- Writing A Book To Help Underdog Founders
- And More!

Learn more about Edrizio: https://www.edriziodelacruz.com/

Follow Edrizio on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/EdrizioCruz @EdrizioCruz

Linkedin: 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/edrizio-de-la-cruz-2b8ab75/ 

Learn more about Arcus: 

https://www.arcusfi.com

Follow the Hosts:

Brian Breslin @BrianBreslin
Maria Derchi @MariaDerchi

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