Orwell: Examine.com Was Nearly Bankrupt Between 2017 and 2019
Saul Orwell · Episode 564 | Running a Business with 10,000 Paid Subscribers · Aug 24, 2021 · at 24:36
Saul Orwell (co-founder of Examine.com) reflects on the business crisis that forced him to rethink Examine.com's product strategy.
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“So what happened was in 2017 to 2019, those were the two or I guess three actually roughest years of examine. Like we were almost bankrupt. I had to put it in my own cash to keep it going.”
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