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Madhan Kanagawa

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188 total appearances

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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DropBox Competitor Bootstraps to $9m Revenue in Austin Texas

So we have a very strong core founding team.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DropBox Competitor Bootstraps to $9m Revenue in Austin Texas

That's all, almost all of them are engineers, including myself.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DropBox Competitor Bootstraps to $9m Revenue in Austin Texas

So, which helped tremendously.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DropBox Competitor Bootstraps to $9m Revenue in Austin Texas

Uh, you know, we do have about, uh, you know, some, we do have like 20% of the engineers in the U S and then the rest of it is, uh, it's all spread across the world.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DropBox Competitor Bootstraps to $9m Revenue in Austin Texas

We have people in Europe, South America, um, Asia as well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DropBox Competitor Bootstraps to $9m Revenue in Austin Texas

Yeah, this has been one of the interesting challenges over time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DropBox Competitor Bootstraps to $9m Revenue in Austin Texas

Unlike many companies, we really wanted to kind of have the relationship directly with people.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DropBox Competitor Bootstraps to $9m Revenue in Austin Texas

So we never went out and did outsourcing companies where we go and find an organization or a company that will outsource for us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DropBox Competitor Bootstraps to $9m Revenue in Austin Texas

Because I really believe that you need to have a connection between the company and directly the employee.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DropBox Competitor Bootstraps to $9m Revenue in Austin Texas

So we use different outlets.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DropBox Competitor Bootstraps to $9m Revenue in Austin Texas

We have, I think there's a main one, WeWorkRemotely, and there's a whole bunch of other sites.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DropBox Competitor Bootstraps to $9m Revenue in Austin Texas

WeWorkRemotely?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DropBox Competitor Bootstraps to $9m Revenue in Austin Texas

Yes, that is it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DropBox Competitor Bootstraps to $9m Revenue in Austin Texas

Yeah, that's one.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DropBox Competitor Bootstraps to $9m Revenue in Austin Texas

And then there's a few other sites which are very specific, targeted very specifically to remote work.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DropBox Competitor Bootstraps to $9m Revenue in Austin Texas

And we use those.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DropBox Competitor Bootstraps to $9m Revenue in Austin Texas

Now, have you done all this bootstrap or have you raised capital?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DropBox Competitor Bootstraps to $9m Revenue in Austin Texas

It's 100% bootstrap so far.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DropBox Competitor Bootstraps to $9m Revenue in Austin Texas

I love that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DropBox Competitor Bootstraps to $9m Revenue in Austin Texas

So how many co-founders are there?