Colin Gray

Everything Colin Gray said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

STARTUPS FOR THE REST OF US Insight

Gray: Running parallel venture experiments for 3-6 months is worthwhile initially

“It's near impossible to grow that many businesses, certainly even two or three all simultaneously. But I do think back to that time and think I didn't know the podcast host was going to take off. It wasn't at a living level at that point. The other ones did lo…”

Colin Gray Jan 12, 2021 ▶ 20:08 Episode 531 | How a Non-Technical Founder Grew Past $20k MRR

STARTUPS FOR THE REST OF US Insight

Gray: Creative SaaS companies need high-quality portfolio projects for credibility

“And I feel like when you're in a space like ourselves, when it's creative, when it's quite reputation based almost, that you have to have something good like that to show that you know what you're talking about, to then, especially when we're the creating app,…”

Colin Gray Jan 12, 2021 ▶ 15:43 Episode 531 | How a Non-Technical Founder Grew Past $20k MRR

STARTUPS FOR THE REST OF US Insight

Gray: DIY podcasters are unlikely to pay for automated editing software

“They were those DIY podcasters, which were really happy to come in and play around with all the gadgets and the gear. And those people are far less likely to pay 28 dollars a month for something that takes away their technical troubles. Because a lot of them q…”

Colin Gray Jan 12, 2021 ▶ 28:20 Episode 531 | How a Non-Technical Founder Grew Past $20k MRR

STARTUPS FOR THE REST OF US Disclosure

Colin Gray funded Alitu entirely with cash flow from The Podcast Host

“And actually we never did. We never went unprofitable through the whole thing. So I always funded it through the podcast host income, and that's, I was happy to go at the pace that that allowed.”

Colin Gray Jan 12, 2021 ▶ 25:21 Episode 531 | How a Non-Technical Founder Grew Past $20k MRR

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Colin Gray: Alitu doubled in size over three months during COVID surge

“I mean, we doubled in three months. It was absolutely crazy, but I do not expect, in fact, the growth has already dropped a lot compared to that. We're still growing steadily, but certainly not that fast.”

Colin Gray Jan 12, 2021 ▶ 35:03 Episode 531 | How a Non-Technical Founder Grew Past $20k MRR

STARTUPS FOR THE REST OF US Disclosure

Gray shut down client services to focus on higher-value product work

“That was just last year, and it just, I got to the point where I'd spent two days scripting and narrating a show and realizing how much more value I could have got out of that time working on Alty, working on the marketing for it. So while we loved that work, …”

Colin Gray Jan 12, 2021 ▶ 14:21 Episode 531 | How a Non-Technical Founder Grew Past $20k MRR

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Gray: Over half of Alitu users preferred previous audio editing interface

“And we changed the interface in quite a big way at one point on the editing screen. And the outcry was absolutely crazy. It turned out that more than half of our users much preferred the old method.”

Colin Gray Jan 12, 2021 ▶ 32:29 Episode 531 | How a Non-Technical Founder Grew Past $20k MRR

The other half of the tape: Colin Gray's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 9 times in 3 episodes across the shows. 1 statement on the record names them. every mention, with the transcript →

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Statements about Colin Gray, by other people (1)

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Alitu reaches $45,000 monthly recurring revenue two years post-launch

“Alitu is after two years after launch, you're doing about 45,000 dollars a month in MRR.”

Rob Walling Jan 12, 2021 ▶ 6:13 Episode 531 | How a Non-Technical Founder Grew Past $20k MRR

Every mention by year

One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Colin's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.

Show	Role there	Eps	Statements	Record
STARTUPS FOR THE REST OF USLEDGER	Founder, The Podcast Host and Alitu	1	7	—	full record on Startups For the Rest of Us →