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Pablo Srugo wanted to be “insanely rich.” It killed his startup.

Pablo Srugo wanted to be “insanely rich.” It killed his startup.

Update: 2024-09-13

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“This was mine. This was done. I was going to be the next Steve Jobs, I was going to be rich—everything was happening. And now they took it away.”

As the young co-founder of Ottawa-based Gymtrack, Pablo Srugo had one goal: “become insanely rich.” Now a partner at Mistral VC, he joins the podcast to share what went wrong and caution founders against becoming their own worst hypebeast.

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Pablo Srugo wanted to be “insanely rich.” It killed his startup.

Pablo Srugo wanted to be “insanely rich.” It killed his startup.