Where resilience meets the real stories of successful entrepreneurs and startup founders.
Hosted by Sonia Couto, a 2x tech founder, startup mentor, and breast cancer survivor.
Tenacity with Sonia C. dives into the mindset, leadership, and grit needed to build, scale, and exit thriving businesses.
In each episode, you’ll hear from accomplished founders who’ve built multi-million dollar companies and come back stronger from failures, pivots, and setbacks. These are raw, honest conversations filled with behind-the-scenes lessons from startup exits, failure and comebacks, real talk on funding, scaling, and founder mental health, expert insights on building legacy, leading teams, and staying resilient, and tactical strategies for growing a business and evolving as a leader.
If you’re a builder, not just a dreamer, this podcast is your go-to for growth, inspiration, and real-world advice.
Tune in. Level up. Stay tenacious.
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Where resilience meets the real stories of successful entrepreneurs and startup founders.
Hosted by Sonia Couto, a 2x tech founder, startup mentor, and breast cancer survivor.
Tenacity with Sonia C. dives into the mindset, leadership, and grit needed to build, scale, and exit thriving businesses.
In each episode, you’ll hear from accomplished founders who’ve built multi-million dollar companies and come back stronger from failures, pivots, and setbacks. These are raw, honest conversations filled with behind-the-scenes lessons from startup exits, failure and comebacks, real talk on funding, scaling, and founder mental health, expert insights on building legacy, leading teams, and staying resilient, and tactical strategies for growing a business and evolving as a leader.
If you’re a builder, not just a dreamer, this podcast is your go-to for growth, inspiration, and real-world advice.
Tune in. Level up. Stay tenacious.
How This Founder Built a $30B AI Startup That’s Disrupting Finance with Alexander Harmsen
Tenacity with Sonia C.
35 minutes
3 months ago
How This Founder Built a $30B AI Startup That’s Disrupting Finance with Alexander Harmsen
What does it take to build an AI startup that manages over $30 billion in assets and challenges everything we know about investing?
In this episode of Tenacity with Sonia C, Sonia sits down with Alexander Harmsen, founder of PortfolioPilot.com, a next-gen AI financial advisor transforming how we manage money, risk, and decision-making. A serial entrepreneur, YC alum, and Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, Alexander previously founded and sold Iris Automation, worked on NASA’s Mars Helicopter, and raised over $30M in venture capital.
You’ll learn:
-How AI is disrupting traditional financial advising
-Why founders struggle with financial decision-making, and how tech can help
-Lessons from scaling two AI startups, raising capital, and going through Y Combinator
-The psychology behind investor mistakes, and how PortfolioPilot corrects them
Whether you’re building a startup, investing in tech, or looking to understand where AI in finance is headed next, this episode delivers actionable insights and founder wisdom.
🎧 Tune in to learn what it really takes to scale a high-impact AI company
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Tenacity with Sonia C.
Where resilience meets the real stories of successful entrepreneurs and startup founders.
Hosted by Sonia Couto, a 2x tech founder, startup mentor, and breast cancer survivor.
Tenacity with Sonia C. dives into the mindset, leadership, and grit needed to build, scale, and exit thriving businesses.
In each episode, you’ll hear from accomplished founders who’ve built multi-million dollar companies and come back stronger from failures, pivots, and setbacks. These are raw, honest conversations filled with behind-the-scenes lessons from startup exits, failure and comebacks, real talk on funding, scaling, and founder mental health, expert insights on building legacy, leading teams, and staying resilient, and tactical strategies for growing a business and evolving as a leader.
If you’re a builder, not just a dreamer, this podcast is your go-to for growth, inspiration, and real-world advice.
Tune in. Level up. Stay tenacious.
