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| Immigrant entrepreneur: | Alex Robbio |
| Company: | Belatrix |
| Place of birth: | Argentina |
| Employees: | 700 |
| Age started business: | 26 |
Show notes
Alex came to the United States with his wife and a young daughter from Argentina with only $700 in their pockets. Alex had extremely humble beginnings with very little help. In this episode he shares how his immigrant entrepreneurial mind gets extremely creative to the point of asking their first employees to bring their own desktop computers to work.
He started his software company with his brother and father and shares some extremely valuable advice that he wishes he did in the beginnning stages of his business.
Although he operated in United States, his company had offices in several different countries and came to a total of 700 employees when they decided to sell the company.
Some of his successes that he shares transformed everyone who came in contact with this company, from interns, to employees, and even people who were never employed by their company were touched by the services that Alex and his company provided.
Alex never raised capital to start his business, but does he think he should’ve raised capital? We’ll find out!
Quotes by Alex
When we moved to the States we had no money. We didn’t even have money to get a flight ticket back to Argentina.
Looking back, I didn’t think that I was learning how to become an entrepreneur.
Mentors are so important.
We have to have the humility to seek out and engage with mentors.
Mentors and advisors are critical for the entrepreneurs.
There is always someone that knows more than what we know.
If you look at the first 6, 7 years of our operation it took us a long time to get real traction.
Entrepreneurs should not settle on accounting, the information you can get from good financial reporting can make a huge difference in your planning and your ability to take risks.
The process of scaling up… you make so many mistakes.
You learn that you have to go through those experiences.
I will continue to make mistakes but I will try not to beat myself up.
Entrepreneurs should not measure themselves against the Mark Zuckerberg’s of the world.
Aspire to be like the Mark Zuckerberg’s or the Bill Gates but also know that their story is a very particular one.
Not being a unicorn is not a failure.
Sometimes we don’t believe in ourselves.
Sometimes it gets racist, don’t get caught up and don’t let all of that affect your dreams.
Focus on what you’re doing, continue working hard.
