0 to $20M ARR in 5 years bootstrapped - how to achieve the impossible?

$20M/year & 100% bootstrapped In 2019, they were called "IDIOTS" as they were building a product that already existed. In 2023, their business is better than most VC-backed startups. Thread 🧵

Last month, we closed $6M in funding (at an $80M valuation) from more than 100 customers and investors, using a link and no pitching. Here’s how it happened, step by step.

Two months ago I started a design-as-a-service startup that grew to $15k/month and I thought it was time to sum up my learnings in a post and help fellow redditors out here. Basically this posts contains all the learnings and steps I wished I had known before I started.

Almost immediately, I raised $1.1M from an all-star cast of angel investors and venture capital firms, including Max Levchin, Chris Sacca, Ron Conway, Naval Ravikant, Collaborative Fund, Accel Partners, and First Round Capital. A few months later, in May 2012, we raised $7M more. Mike Abbott from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB), a top-t... See more