The Trustbound™ Podcast

Matt Pasienski raised a challenge every early-stage founder knows: spend too early on acquisition and you may end up buying more noise than signal. In this Trustbound™ Breakdown, Mauricio connects that idea to the value...

Matt Pasienski, CEO & Co-Founder of Pact, has spent years building technology and helping founders turn ambitious ideas into working products. His view of growth has changed along the way: the channels that once helped...

Jolisa Gonzalez brought a deeply human perspective to a conversation about money: when people trust you with something that personal, knowing the numbers is only part of the job. In this Trustbound™ Breakdown, Mauricio...

Jolisa Gonzalez, Financial Professional & Marketing Specialist, works at the intersection of money, communication, and human behavior. Her perspective is clear: the strongest financial relationships are built through...

Andrés Cano treats warm introductions as something worth protecting. At Pygma Fund, referrals have tiers, founders are tested before gaining access to the network, and every introduction carries the reputation of the...

Andrés Cano, General Partner at Pygma Fund, has spent years building one of the most relationship-driven ecosystems in LatAm venture. And somewhere between cohort one and cohort eight, he figured something out: not all...

Ian Parks named a tension most founders recognize: years of relationships can create enormous goodwill, yet that goodwill does not automatically become introductions, opportunities, or meaningful action for the...

Ian Parkes, co-founder of StockPress, has been building the same product with the same founding team for years. No pivots. No shiny objects. Just a very clear conviction about what they were building and the discipline...

Guillermo Arenas is, without knowing it, one of the reasons itogai exists. He is the friend who introduced Mauricio to Tomás Uribe, one warm introduction backed by years of trust that started a chain of events nobody...

Guillermo Arenas is, without knowing it, the reason itogai exists. He's the friend who introduced Mauricio to Tomás Uribe — one warm intro that started a chain of events nobody mapped in advance. Guillermo has spent the...

Paul Gladen made thousands of introductions over six years running the Blackstone Launchpad at the University of Montana. When Mauricio asked if anyone ever said no to one of his intros, he paused. And couldn't think of...

Paul Gladen didn't set out to become one of the most connected people in Montana. He moved there almost by accident, started a community just to find people to drink beer with, and spent a decade making thousands of...

Ranya Barakat said two things in Episode 8 that stayed with Mauricio all week. One: she could not think of a single time she had rebuilt trust after it broke. Once it is gone, she walks. Two: she closed the conversation...

Ranya Barakat is a tech entrepreneur and GTM leader who has built her entire career through her network. Not mostly. 100% percent. She and Mauricio have known each other for over a decade. It started as a co-selling...

Austin Walker didn't talk about one relationship. He reverse-engineered 15 years of his life, from a high school business competition in Belt, Montana to this podcast. Every turn traced back through a thread of genuine...