In this episode of Startup Strategies, Juliana sits down with George Munguia, the serial entrepreneur who went from negative $200 in his bank account to raising $2 million for Harmony AI after his manager threatened to fire him for using AI tools. George was grinding through content marketing at a 500-person startup, spending weeks writing single blog posts when he discovered Jasper AI and started cranking out five times more content. His manager's reaction was swift and brutal - she put him on a performance improvement plan and called him "disgraceful" for using AI to do his job.
George quit and built Harmony AI, which connects scattered sales and marketing data to show exactly who's ready to buy and when to call them. He reveals his unconventional fundraising approach where 70% of his round came from cold email, including landing HubSpot and Typeform co-founders as investors.
This conversation reveals why the next wave of successful founders will be those who prepare to surf change instead of waiting for permission, and how connecting data signals beats building separate dashboards.
George shares:
- How he pre-sold 700 companies before building anything
- The LinkedIn formula that drove $1M in revenue growth at Coconut
- Why he turned down Techstars in final stages to become a co-founder
- Cold email strategies that closed HubSpot and Typeform co-founders
- The $5K intro.co hack that landed Apollo's co-founder as investor
- Why connecting scattered data beats building separate dashboards
- How embarrassment became his competitive advantage for startup growth
- And much more…
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