Sam Ross, the co-founder and CEO of rel=”nofollow” href=”https://www.numeralhq.com/”Numeral, came up with the idea for his sales tax compliance startup while traveling the world after having worked as a product manager at Airbnb.
“This was early 2018, where you didn’t have remote work like you do today,” he told TechCrunch in an interview. Direct-to-consumer businesses were a big trend then, so he supported his travel dreams by running several self-funded e-commerce brands from the road. He operated an online jewelry store and still maintains a vitamin DTC site.
While he loved the…

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