Juan Diego Farah

Juan Diego Farah

CEO & Founder at Boxagon, Member of the Board at Mimanzana. Previously M&A professional at Goldman Sachs & Co.

LinkedIn: uk.linkedin.com/pub/juan-diego-farah/28/591/210/
Twitter: @boxagon
Member since November 05, 2013
  • About
Education
2010 Middlebury College , BA
2009 Sciences Po , BA
I am a(n):

Entrepreneur

Companies I've founded or co-founded:
Boxagon, mimanzana
Companies I work or worked for:
Goldman Sachs
Achievements (products built, personal awards won):

Got Boxagon into the top 15 European Startups to present at London Tech Week. Raising capital with mimanzana to grow our team.

If you're an entrepreneur or corporate innovator, why?

I want to invent something cool.

My favorite startups:

Transferwise, Fancy

What's most frustrating and rewarding about entrepreneurship/innovation?

Frustrating: you always want to go faster.
Rewarding: building something that people love to use.

What's the No. 1 mistake entrepreneurs/innovators make?

Not iterating fast enough.

What are the top three lessons you've learned as an entrepreneur?

1) Keep feedback loops short.
2) Don't be afraid to think big, really big.
3) If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.

Full bio

Juan Diego Farah is co-founder and CEO of Boxagon, a social commerce site that helps people find and share sets of items that go well together. Born and raise in Lima - Peru, Juan Diego studied in Middlebury College and Sciences-Po in Paris. He started his career in finance before building Boxagon out of TechHub in London. He is also on the board of a peruvian digital marketing agency, Mimanzana.