
Before Gonzalo De Mujica helped Traba win its first customers, he spent years learning how to see the whole field. His route from number 10 to founding operator is a study in carrying one kind of playmaking into another.

The former Amherst tennis captain now works on the founding go-to-market effort for Neo at Traba. His route from baseline rallies to warehouse software is really a story about making the next decision legible.
Mike Shebat is the co-founder and CEO of Traba, a New York-based labor marketplace that supplies vetted on-demand workers to warehouses, distribution centers, and light industrial employers. He started the company in 2021 after seeing, from inside a McMaster-Carr shipping floor and later Uber Eats, how often temp workers simply don't show up. Traba has raised roughly $46 million from Founders Fund and Khosla Ventures, and Shebat, a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, runs it on a famously intense in-office schedule.