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Since its founding 10 years ago, Kajabi—which is bootstrapped—has empowered over 50,000 users in 120 countries to serve 60 million students and make over $1.5 billion in sales.
Li Jin • Interview with Kajabi’s CPO: The secret giant in the passion economy that has bootstrapped to $1B GMV run rate
Firstly, people will increasingly identify with and trust other people rather than starting with a specific type of product or impersonal brand. We're putting the individual’s brand and their company’s brand forward. We compare Shopify and Etsy—there’s a difference in how overwhelming it is to go to somebody's Shopify store that you trust, vs. goin... See more
Li Jin • Interview with Kajabi’s CPO: The secret giant in the passion economy that has bootstrapped to $1B GMV run rate
Shopifywins - there are now four paying customers instead of one, and we’re all spending money to grow the market. Shopify takes a subscription fee and a cut of revenue.
Packy McCormick • Shopify and the Hard Thing About Easy Things
The company benefits from two distinct and multiplicative growth drivers: network effects to pull in more people and their code, and an ever growing code repository acts as a marketplace for people seeking out code for their projects.
Sean Ellis • Startup Growth Engines
Jeff doesn’t focus on margins. He’s more focused on free cash flow—that is, the cash that a company is able to generate after laying out the money required to maintain or expand its asset base. Why? Because he believes the Internet’s potential for growth is gargantuan and still fundamentally unexploited.
John Rossman • The Amazon Way: 14 Leadership Principles Behind the World's Most Disruptive Company
In 2005, sixteen-year-old Patrick Collison (Patrick is the cofounder of Stripe) did what many high school nerds do and participated in the Young Scientist Of The Year competition. As a young teen, he leveraged it to build his app "Isaac" (his entry to the competition). Isaac is what we would call today a chatbot….in 2005, chatbots weren't a thing….... See more
Ali Abouelatta • 💳 Stripe
We want to make it so that for $29, for our basic plan, you get most of the things that Amazon built for itself, right off the bat.