When you hit a crossroads, don't abandon your passion to build and experiment. This is the mentality that has helped guide Alvaro Morales. #seriesa #saas #finance #startup #founder #community
In an alternate universe I’m an actor on a stage, not a founder. For a long time I thought that’s where I wanted to end up… Eventually I hit a crossroads: was I going to pursue my interest in tech, or was I going to act? It was a bit of an existential crises. Of the teenage variety. But I couldn’t abandon my passion to build and experiment. So I left acting behind and went full-force into computer science. Here’s the thing: entrepreneurship is as much art as it is science. At Orb we’re doing something brand new. We’re bringing a developer’s eye and sensibility to billing, with a platform to go along with it. To get there we had to do a lot of “trying on roles” to really understand the value tradeoffs required. There’s no simple formula for figuring out how to monetize innovation. It requires: - experimentation - flexibility - iteration The art of go-to-market with an infrastructure that only great engineering can net you. As a melancholy teen I might have felt I was leaving my artistic roots to wither, but today I know I wouldn’t be where I am without them.