How Diego Saez Gil built a smart luggage company into a multi-million dollar company

Diego Saez Gil, Bluesmart, eCommerce, European Founder, Funding, International Founders, Non-Tech, Physical Product, PR / Media Marketing

Imagine you’re a venture capitalist looking at investments all day long and this guy from Argentina walks into your office and says, “I’ve got this great idea. It’s luggage.”

Luggage? Really? Well, if you continued that conversation–and didn’t run away–you’d end up with a big hit on your hands because that’s what today’s guest actually built.

Diego Saez Gil is the founder of Bluesmart, smart luggage that tracks itself, auto-locks and charges your devices. Find out how he did it in this interview.

Diego Saez Gil

Bluesmart

Diego Saez Gil is the founder of Bluesmart, smart luggage that tracks itself, auto-locks and charges your devices.

Andrew: Hey, everyone. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy, where I interview entrepreneurs about how they built their businesses.

I say that I do this for an audience of real entrepreneurs. That’s why I’m so proud whenever I interview an entrepreneur here who’s a listener, who’s somebody who’s been listening, who gets it, who’s been following along and built something really successful, something so big that I want to interview him here so that you in my audience can get to listen and learn from him and ideally use what you learn and build a great company and come back here and do an interview about how you did it.

Now, imagine if you weren’t an entrepreneur though. Imagine if you were a venture capitalist looking at a lot of investments all day long and this guy walks into your office, a guy from Argentina. He says, “I have a great idea,” only he says it with a cool Argentine accent,...

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