290 source episodes in the catalog.
Adam Wathan went from being a college dropout to a software engineer who has made ~$2.5MM solo by teaching what he knows via books, courses…
Introvert Rosie Sherry built the Ministry of Testing community into a $1.2MM/year business with no advertising, while homeschooling five…
Ben Orenstein and two co-founders come up with an idea, sell $8,000+ in pre-orders, hit ramen profitability and only then launch Tuple, a…
Chad Pytel has run consultancy thoughtbot for 15 years and grown it to a 100-person firm on pace for ~$20MM in revenue, while also shipping…
Allie LeFevere (Obedient) argues that humor and fun are under-used brand levers for early-stage founders and breaks down how playful…
Danielle Baskin has started 23 businesses since 2007 and runs them all in parallel, using each new tiny idea as a product experiment. The…
Derek Andersen (Startup Grind) and David Spinks (CMX / Bevy) describe turning small gatherings of lonely people into multimillion-dollar…
Mark Fershteyn recounts years of false starts, dwindling savings and persistence before finding product-market fit for Recapped, a…
Natalie Nagele and her husband Chris have run Wildbit (Postmark, Beanstalk) for 18 years, growing it past 30 remote employees, multiple…
Former fireman Matt Verlaque teams up with a cofounder Jake, learns to code from scratch, iterates past a failing model, and builds…
Jason Cohen (WP Engine / Smart Bear) distills four bootstrapped companies past $1M ARR into advice for reaching your first $10k/month, the…
The anonymous solo maker AJ (who built Carrd, now at roughly $30,000/mo in revenue) talks through how a single developer-designer launches…
Lynne Tye drops out of grad school, moves into tech, ends up managing 150 people at a startup, then quits and teaches herself to code…
Peldi Guilizzoni bootstrapped Balsamiq Mockups, a low-fidelity wireframing tool, to $6M+/yr with dozens of employees over more than a…
Tim Soulo, CMO of Ahrefs (which does over $1M in revenue per employee), describes his winding path from side-project blogs to running…
Dominic Wells escaped English-teaching by blogging on his iPad between classes and bootstrapped Human Proof Designs, a niche site-building…
Rob Walling tells his 20-year bootstrapping arc: buying an online business, building Drip to an 8-figure exit, and now running TinySeed, an…
Ajay Goel bootstrapped JangoMail to over $5M ARR and sold it to private equity, then came back to build GMass, a Gmail-based email…
Daniel Gross, after selling a startup to Apple, runs Pioneer (a startup accelerator/fellowship) and shares lessons on building high-impact…
Julian Shapiro of Bell Curve shares strong-opinion growth advice: every company should run paid ads, e-commerce is more promising than…
Evan You created Vue.js as a solo open-source project that grew into one of the most popular front-end frameworks in the world, sustaining…
Andy Cook and cofounder Nelson validated Tettra, an internal knowledge-base SaaS, by spending weeks interviewing customers before writing…
Cameron Yarbrough and Keegan Walden co-founded Torch.io, pairing leadership-coaching software with human coaching to help leadership teams…
Joel Hooks co-founded egghead.io, a marketplace connecting programmers with video educators, bootstrapping it past $3M in annual revenue…
