Building an Integrity Culture: Co-Founder Conversations

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this conversation, I sit down with Huddle Co-Founders Stephanie Golik and Michael Saloio.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Huddle is a platform for designers and builders to invest in startups with their time. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Stephanie has spent her career building alongside founders at studios and leading design and product at fast-growing tech companies. She was an early design leader at Cruise, building user experiences for self-driving cars. Before that, Steph was Head of Product at Mapfit (acq. by Foursquare). She's a proud Cuban-American born, raised and currently residing in Miami.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Michael is a product and team-focused entrepreneur and investor. He’s spent his career working with technology executives and investors. As an investment analyst at Oppenheimer & Co., he followed some of the biggest names in technology including Cisco, EMC, and Apple. Prior to Oppenheimer, Mike covered special situations at Sidoti & Co.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Over the past five years, Michael reimagined his career to focus on early-stage businesses. He was the first employee at SuperPhone, a messaging application backed by Ben Horowitz, Betaworks, Bessemer, and more. Since 2014 he has consulted with, invested in, or advised more than 35 startups that have raised more than $200M in venture financing.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I met Michael years ago and have tracked his rise…when</span> <a href= "https://refreshmiami.com/huddle-enables-top-designers-and-builders-to-work-on-startup-projects-in-exchange-for-cash-and-equity/"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">I saw that his latest venture raised 3.3M</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">and was a co-founded company, I reconnected to include him in my co-founder conversations series.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">My question throughout this series has been simple - what does it take to build and