The Long Haul: Building in San Antonio Past Series A

Alberto Pina (PorchPass) and Josh Sanchez (FloatMe) both started their companies at Geekdom nearly a decade ago. They've raised capital from San Antonio and beyond, navigated the founder-to-CEO transition, and built through some of the strangest years in recent memory—a pandemic, a funding boom and bust, and now an AI reset that's rewriting what venture-scale even means. This is a rare conversation between two of San Antonio's most seasoned founders on what it actually takes to build here for the long haul. Not the launch story. The middle. The years where the company gets harder, the calls get lonelier, and the identity of "founder" starts to shift into something else. Alberto and Josh will unpack what heading into year ten actually feels like, what they'd tell the founder starting today, and why San Antonio still made sense as home base through all of it. Moderated by Cat Dizon, Co-founder and CFO at Active Capital.