Nick Francis

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323 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 30 Jun

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Startups For the Rest of Us · Episode 839 | The Journey Growing Help Scout to $35M ARR · 30 Jun 2026 podcast

And so for eight, nine months, we tried it and we ended up pivoting away from it.

But that's what I'm an entrepreneur.

That's what I'm built to do.

You know, upon reflection, I was having a really tough time leaning into that tension and trying to thread the needle between being a bootstrapper at heart, really being committed to building products in a certain way,

and operating businesses in a certain way and delivering on an outcome that would make my stakeholders very happy, right?

So like trying to thread that needle for 15 years, really like 11 years funded was incredibly challenging for me and draining.

And so I sort of picked my head up and I said, what if I'm just not the guy anymore?

Like what if the journey from 40 million to 100 million is just somebody else?

And when I asked myself that question, I'll be honest with you, Rob, a weight lifted.

And I was like, well, then that would enable me to actually –

go do what feels true to me as an entrepreneur, just no compromise, no tensions, like what feels absolutely true to my core and my values.

I still have another rep in me.

I still have more time to build one more thing.

Like this is the opportunity to go build that thing and not have any of those tensions.

I've experienced it.

I've seen that side of it.

I'm not doing that again.

So I really felt like it was just the right time.

Yeah, I am working on something.

The weird thing about what I'm working on is that it's not necessarily something I can just put my head down and build.

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