No one wants to pay indirect tax. It is added to the sale price, collected from customers, and then businesses must file returns monthly just to hand it over to tax authorities. For companies selling internationally, the complexity multiplies across jurisdictions, each with different rates, thresholds, and filing deadlines.Gareth Kobrin is Co-Founder and CEO of Yonda Tax, a compliance platform for businesses trading across borders. He spent 15 years in tax before starting Yonda, working at Merrill Lynch and VAT Global. He bootstrapped the company for three years before raising a €15m Series A from Kennet Partners in late 2024. In this clip, Gareth explains what Yonda does, why he chose tax as a career, and the decision to leave a senior role to build something from scratch. The conversation covers product strategy, growth mechanics, bootstrapping versus institutional capital, and how AI is reshaping the tax compliance stack.📊 What Yonda actually solves for eCommerce and SaaS companies🧠 Why tax-first beats tech-first when building compliance tools💰 How they grew from zero to 400 clients without outbound sales🤖 Where AI agents already automate filing and where humans still matter🚀 The case for delaying venture capital as long as possibleSubscribe to Aulium for more conversations on innovation and private capital.About Gareth Kobrin [co-founder of Yondatax]:Gareth Kobrin is Co-Founder and CEO of Yonda Tax, a tax compliance platform for eCommerce and fintech companies. He spent his career at Merrill Lynch, VAT IT, and Vatglobal before leaving a senior director role to start Yonda, which he bootstrapped for over three years before raising institutional capital from Kennet Partners.About Aulium:Aulium is a video show exploring Innovation and Private Capital, hosted by Thomas Viguier.Connect with us:➡ Aulium on LinkedIn:   / aulium  ➡ Thomas Viguier:   / tviguier