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Al Cardenas - The Hustle Behind Safe App
Al Cardenas of Safe App joins us in this episode to share how they help Filipinos from getting scammed from online transactions. Al will share his humble beginnings and how he worked in the call center industry in his first hustles. He will also share how he started his first startup in Antler and how it was acquired. Al also shares how getting scammed led him to create Safe and how they launched their product to help solve this problem.
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