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Phil Liu

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320 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Bootstrap to $1m with VC Funded Competitors With Just 4 People

I love small SWAT team.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Bootstrap to $1m with VC Funded Competitors With Just 4 People

You only had four people when you broke a million dollar run rate.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Bootstrap to $1m with VC Funded Competitors With Just 4 People

That breaks some other bootstrap stories like Lemless who had six people when they broke a million dollar run rate.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Bootstrap to $1m with VC Funded Competitors With Just 4 People

I love small teams that can go from zero to a million very quickly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Bootstrap to $1m with VC Funded Competitors With Just 4 People

So congratulations.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Bootstrap to $1m with VC Funded Competitors With Just 4 People

Thanks.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Bootstrap to $1m with VC Funded Competitors With Just 4 People

Yeah, so it's all about, you know, being small.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Bootstrap to $1m with VC Funded Competitors With Just 4 People

It's about being more a child to me.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Bootstrap to $1m with VC Funded Competitors With Just 4 People

We really don't lose time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Bootstrap to $1m with VC Funded Competitors With Just 4 People

And, you know, my wife always told me, like, I would never work with a team like you because you never talk to each other.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Bootstrap to $1m with VC Funded Competitors With Just 4 People

Like, we actually don't.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Bootstrap to $1m with VC Funded Competitors With Just 4 People

We're always, like, so focused.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Bootstrap to $1m with VC Funded Competitors With Just 4 People

We all know what we want to do.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Bootstrap to $1m with VC Funded Competitors With Just 4 People

It's a few, like, text chat comments in the day, but the rest of the day is just focused on all the work.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Bootstrap to $1m with VC Funded Competitors With Just 4 People

It's mostly customer support and product development bugs.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Bootstrap to $1m with VC Funded Competitors With Just 4 People

And that's it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Bootstrap to $1m with VC Funded Competitors With Just 4 People

The rest is just like, it's such a big space that even if it's just word of mouth, and we're just a small team, that it's really working out, actually.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Bootstrap to $1m with VC Funded Competitors With Just 4 People

Because with the word of mouth, it's sustained our growth, and we're just four guys.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Bootstrap to $1m with VC Funded Competitors With Just 4 People

It makes good sense.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Bootstrap to $1m with VC Funded Competitors With Just 4 People

Now, when people start using you, do they stick?