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Nathan Latka

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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Bootstrapper Made $6m Last year Using New Self-Funding Method

He also helps 20,000 college students generate and get access to over a million dollars of scholarship revenue.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Bootstrapper Made $6m Last year Using New Self-Funding Method

That's what they paid out last year alone.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Bootstrapper Made $6m Last year Using New Self-Funding Method

Processing over 150,000 signups per month right now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Bootstrapper Made $6m Last year Using New Self-Funding Method

They got a robust engine.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Bootstrapper Made $6m Last year Using New Self-Funding Method

We're thrilled, obviously, that he used FounderPath for some non-dilutive capital.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Bootstrapper Made $6m Last year Using New Self-Funding Method

He's grown, totally bootstrapped, to over $6 million of revenue, up from $3 million back in 2022.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Bootstrapper Made $6m Last year Using New Self-Funding Method

Hey folks, my guest today is David Abakhnikov.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Bootstrapper Made $6m Last year Using New Self-Funding Method

He is building ScholarshipOwl.com, which helps connect consumer brands to Gen Z. He's got over two decades in tech, including roles as R&D manager and engineering at Google and Waze.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Bootstrapper Made $6m Last year Using New Self-Funding Method

And he specializes in bootstrapping companies and excels as a remote team expert.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Bootstrapper Made $6m Last year Using New Self-Funding Method

He travels a lot.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Bootstrapper Made $6m Last year Using New Self-Funding Method

He's got a passion for data matching algorithms and AI development long before it was mainstream, which complements his keen interest in Gen Z and content creation.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Bootstrapper Made $6m Last year Using New Self-Funding Method

David, you ready to take us to the top?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Bootstrapper Made $6m Last year Using New Self-Funding Method

Yeah, nice.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Bootstrapper Made $6m Last year Using New Self-Funding Method

All right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Bootstrapper Made $6m Last year Using New Self-Funding Method

You have to back that statement up.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Bootstrapper Made $6m Last year Using New Self-Funding Method

So you say you were in AI long before it was mainstream.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Bootstrapper Made $6m Last year Using New Self-Funding Method

Were you doing any sort of AI stuff at Google or Waze back in the day?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Bootstrapper Made $6m Last year Using New Self-Funding Method

Now, if you guys listened to my last interview with David, which is all the way back in 2021, you will know that Scholarship Owl is helping folks.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Bootstrapper Made $6m Last year Using New Self-Funding Method

So kids that are maybe juniors, seniors in high school looking to go into college, it helps you quickly apply for different scholarships.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Bootstrapper Made $6m Last year Using New Self-Funding Method

But he's built a massive engine where there's tens of thousands of students doing this.