Boot.dev

also referred to as: boot dev · bootdev

10 statements across 1 episodes · 5 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Apr 30, 2025 by Lane Wagoner · said 14 times in 1 episodes since 2025 · across every show →

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Apr 30, 2025 positive

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Lane Wagoner: Boot.dev has 25,332 active paying members

“And we're currently sitting at 25,332 active paying members.”

Lane Wagoner Apr 30, 2025 ▶ 1:56 My Coding Game Makes $1M Per Month

Apr 30, 2025

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Wagoner: Boot.dev CEO averages only three internal meetings per week

“Later in the day, I have a meeting, maybe it's an internal one. I honestly only have like three of those a week these days.”

Lane Wagoner Apr 30, 2025 ▶ 14:05 My Coding Game Makes $1M Per Month

Apr 30, 2025 positive

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Wagoner: Boot.dev raised $330K in initial angel funding

“And so he gave me the angel funding, it was 330 K, but it gave me enough of, like, assurance that, okay, we could at least have a couple years of runway to try this new business.”

Lane Wagoner Apr 30, 2025 ▶ 4:05 My Coding Game Makes $1M Per Month

Apr 30, 2025

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Wagoner: Boot.dev sponsors gaming influencers rather than coding influencers

“So we've actually done most of our YouTube influencer marketing to gaming audiences rather than coding audiences.”

Lane Wagoner Apr 30, 2025 ▶ 9:26 My Coding Game Makes $1M Per Month

Apr 30, 2025 positive

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Wagoner: MVPs must stand for minimum quantity, never minimum quality

“MVP doesn't mean shitty product, and it can't mean that. If it does mean that for you, your product is going to flop pretty hard. You should shoot for minimum quantity, not minimum quality.”

Lane Wagoner Apr 30, 2025 ▶ 5:44 My Coding Game Makes $1M Per Month

Apr 30, 2025 positive

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Wagoner: Boot.dev generated $5.7M revenue and $2.5M profit in 2024

“So our total revenue for 20, 24 was 5.7 million dollars. The cost of goods sold on that revenue was only 300 K. So we spent around six to 700,000 dollars last year on salaries and like Full-time contractors. And then the bulk of our expenses were marketing exp…”

Lane Wagoner Apr 30, 2025 ▶ 12:59 My Coding Game Makes $1M Per Month

Apr 30, 2025 negative

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Wagoner: Early founders cannot just be idea guys who delegate execution

“I think a lot of founders get way ahead of themselves thinking like, I'm going to be the CEO. I'm the fucking idea guy, right? I'm going to delegate everything. I'm going to hire that salesperson, hire that marketer, hire that developer. But omitting the hard …”

Lane Wagoner Apr 30, 2025 ▶ 15:24 My Coding Game Makes $1M Per Month

Apr 30, 2025 neutral

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Wagoner: Boot.dev was making $2,000 monthly when he considered going full-time

“The business, BootDev, had just started making about 2000 dollars a month.”

Lane Wagoner Apr 30, 2025 ▶ 3:22 My Coding Game Makes $1M Per Month

Apr 30, 2025 negative

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Wagoner: Serving multiple customer personas is the deadliest early founder mistake

“You should only be listening to what problems your customers have, and then you should be filtering out any problems from customers that aren't exactly the type of customer that you want to serve. In my opinion, the most dangerous thing you can do. Is try to s…”

Lane Wagoner Apr 30, 2025 ▶ 5:17 My Coding Game Makes $1M Per Month

Apr 30, 2025 bullish

Disclosure

Lane Wagoner: Boot.dev generates almost $1M per month in revenue

“And we're making almost a million dollars a month at the moment.”

Lane Wagoner Apr 30, 2025 ▶ 1:33 My Coding Game Makes $1M Per Month

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