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Derek Capo

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
302 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $10m+ Hedge Fund Details to $2.4m Travel Company To FinTech Startup with Derek Capo of eFin EP 209

I have no problem talking to anybody.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $10m+ Hedge Fund Details to $2.4m Travel Company To FinTech Startup with Derek Capo of eFin EP 209

I talk to people all over the world.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $10m+ Hedge Fund Details to $2.4m Travel Company To FinTech Startup with Derek Capo of eFin EP 209

No, I'm not.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $10m+ Hedge Fund Details to $2.4m Travel Company To FinTech Startup with Derek Capo of eFin EP 209

My favorite business book?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $10m+ Hedge Fund Details to $2.4m Travel Company To FinTech Startup with Derek Capo of eFin EP 209

Honestly, I've read so many books that it's really hard to say, but I really believe that the best book is actually the story of my family.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $10m+ Hedge Fund Details to $2.4m Travel Company To FinTech Startup with Derek Capo of eFin EP 209

My grandfather actually left from Cuba in 1966 on a boat and escaped, hiding his two sons in the boat.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $10m+ Hedge Fund Details to $2.4m Travel Company To FinTech Startup with Derek Capo of eFin EP 209

Landed in Mexico three days later after braving like 20 foot storms.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $10m+ Hedge Fund Details to $2.4m Travel Company To FinTech Startup with Derek Capo of eFin EP 209

Took him 30 days to go from Cosmo, Mexico to Miami, Florida through this crazy trip.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $10m+ Hedge Fund Details to $2.4m Travel Company To FinTech Startup with Derek Capo of eFin EP 209

Within one year, he started a business and then later turned it into one of the largest furniture retailers in the United States of America.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $10m+ Hedge Fund Details to $2.4m Travel Company To FinTech Startup with Derek Capo of eFin EP 209

Uh, no, it's not.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $10m+ Hedge Fund Details to $2.4m Travel Company To FinTech Startup with Derek Capo of eFin EP 209

I think they have a Spanish version that we have.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $10m+ Hedge Fund Details to $2.4m Travel Company To FinTech Startup with Derek Capo of eFin EP 209

Uh, the main reason why I'm mentioning this story is because it's something that I, that I look at every day and I keep on reminding myself that you can struggle every day and you can start with nothing and you can still build, you know, an American dream.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $10m+ Hedge Fund Details to $2.4m Travel Company To FinTech Startup with Derek Capo of eFin EP 209

And so when you look at that and you look at other stories and, you know, like Ray Croft, like McDonald's, how he was able to get that and turn it into a business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $10m+ Hedge Fund Details to $2.4m Travel Company To FinTech Startup with Derek Capo of eFin EP 209

You know, there's tons, there's really tons of books that I like.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $10m+ Hedge Fund Details to $2.4m Travel Company To FinTech Startup with Derek Capo of eFin EP 209

The last business book I read?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $10m+ Hedge Fund Details to $2.4m Travel Company To FinTech Startup with Derek Capo of eFin EP 209

The Richard Branson one.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $10m+ Hedge Fund Details to $2.4m Travel Company To FinTech Startup with Derek Capo of eFin EP 209

I forgot the name of the book.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $10m+ Hedge Fund Details to $2.4m Travel Company To FinTech Startup with Derek Capo of eFin EP 209

Yes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $10m+ Hedge Fund Details to $2.4m Travel Company To FinTech Startup with Derek Capo of eFin EP 209

Uh, holy darling.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $10m+ Hedge Fund Details to $2.4m Travel Company To FinTech Startup with Derek Capo of eFin EP 209

And what's the business?