On episode 8 of Semilla.VC, the podcast highlighting the most exciting and revolutionary figures in Latin American Venture Capital, Tech, and Society, Trip Gorman spoke with Antonio Gómez, Co-Founder of Mexico City-Based medical and recreational marijuana start-up Tryp. Antonio started as just the 4th member of Uber’s operations team in Mexico City back in 2014 and spent almost 5 years at Uber in both Mexico City and San Francisco, rising up to be their Head of Marketplace Operations for Latin America. He then moved to London to work at the Softbank/Index/Tiger Global-Backed financial super app Revolut. After Revolut, he spent almost a year as Chief Operating Officer of Mexico City-Based Hola Cash before co-founding Tryp to capitalize on the wave of medical and recreational marijuana in Latin America.
In this episode you will learn:
✅ The current regulatory environment of medical and recreational marijuana in Latin America.
✅ How Antonio attracted early Uber drivers in Mexico City despite them being attacked by Taxi drivers.
✅ What Antonio would say to a Latin American prior to assimilating to a work environment in San Francisco/the US for the first time.
✅ Tryp’s fight for access to advertising platforms and financial services, and how their bank accounts and assets are being temporarily frozen.
and much, much more!
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Host: Trip Gorman, Twitter @GormanTrip, Linkedin: Tripg.me
