Carlo G. Santoro attended the 2019 Startup Grind Global as an Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) ambassador and mentor. He has been an EO Melbourne member for almost 25 years and is currently the managing director of RetailCare. After the Startup Grind Global conference, he took time to reflect on the lessons he learned from the many early-stage entrepreneurs he spoke with. We share his thoughts below. 

Well, that’s a wrap on the 2019 Startup Grind Global in Redwood City, California. What an amazing venue—the old Fox Theatre! This year, I attended with the Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO), as an ambassador and mentor.

EO is a peer-to-peer learning organization, so it made perfect sense to offer free mentoring sessions to conference attendees who wished to spend time with an entrepreneur.

And if you think the attendees who were “mentored” were the only ones who learned at these sessions, you’re wrong!