Andrew Arruda: Founder of Ross Intelligence & Flexpa | Relentless

This is my conversation with Andrew Arruda the founder of Flexpa & Ross Intelligence.
Startups are like chewing glass and staring into the abyss and being a founder is being someone who likes it.
My X: x.com/ti_morse
Andrew's X: x.com/AndrewArruda
Timestamps:
1:09 Immigrating from Portugal to Canada
4:13 First few businesses
6:19 Growing up on the internet
8:39 His parents' influence
11:38 Early projects & Sports
15:47 Getting hired without credentials
21:39 Being an angel investor
23:14 Starting an AI company in 2014
28:24 Getting into YC while @sama was president
35:22 Meeting Joe Montana & Office hours w @paulg
39:17 Investment from Sam Altman
45:56 Cofounders
50:58 Chewing glass and staring into the abyss
53:32 Creating enterprise software users love
1:04:17 Building for the long-term
1:10:27 Missionaries
1:23:31 Overcoming school

[@bradleywoolf3351]

you and S3 have the best taste in interviewees. morally just, capital efficient, no bullshit individuals

[@Raphamendes2003]

what i really really want to do is help defend Ross Intelligence against Reuter's fat cat a** and am about to publish a research paper for ALSB competition on it! thanks for the video, was very informative and transposed snippets will definitely be used (+cited on the paper) if that is alright with you :)

[@ti_morse]

go for it! :)