Marathon Series: Cuponatic sets out to be the Groupon of Chile

Christian Real Bernouin, Cuponatic, eCommerce, International Founders, Marketplace, Mental Game

Entrepreneurship requires a driving passion but what happens when your company is taken to the brink of bankruptcy?

Christian Real Bernouin is a Co-Founder of Cuponatic which is an e-commerce marketplace that offers different daily deals on products, services, and getaways.

In 2012, Cuponatic was faced with the prospect of bankruptcy. Now, in 2019, it is hitting $5M in revenue annually.

Christian Real Bernouin

Cuponatic

Christian Real Bernouin is a Co-Founder of Cuponatic which is an e-commerce marketplace that offers different daily deals on products, services, and getaways.

Andrew: Ola, freedom fighters, [foreign language 00:00:04]. Andrew Warner coming to you directly from Chile. I flew over here to do interviews with entrepreneurs because I don’t feel like I’ve got a sense of what entrepreneurship, like especially big player entrepreneurship is like outside of the U.S. And frankly, as I look around, I notice that most people, most of the media, most podcasters don’t do it, and it’s maybe because we’ve been a little bit lazy. We’re staying at home, we’re getting comfortable in our environment, frankly I live in San Francisco.

Dude, I got to tell you, I go to my kid’s birthday parties. It is the best freaking networking you could do if you care about startups. Forget about going to meet-ups, forget about going to . . . Go to the kid parties, because the adults are out-of-their-mind bored, they’re all working on incredible companies, they’ve got stock, they’ve got inside...

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