#118 Edrizio De La Cruz on entrepreneurship, resilience, Ycombinator, raising money, selling company

We discussed a few things including:  

1. Your corporate and entrepreneurial journey

2. Investment banking lessons - Arcus insights

3. Y Combinator insights

4. State of the funding and accelerator markets

5. Future trends domestically and globally

Edrizio is a former Y Combinator visiting partner. A Dominican immigrant raised in Harlem, Edrizio dropped out of college and joined the U.S. Air Force, becoming an aircraft technician to make ends meet. He later returned to college, worked on Wall Street, and earned his MBA from the Wharton School.

In 2013, Edrizio co-founded Arcus, a fintech company that raised $20M from Y Combinator, Initialized, Citi Ventures, SoftBank, and a16z. In 2021, Arcus was sold to Mastercard, in its largest Latam acquisition ever.  

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