Bridget Harris

11 statements across 3 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Sep 19, 2022 by Bridget Harris · said 2 times in 2 episodes since 2022 · across every show →

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Sep 19, 2022
Disclosure
Harris: YouCanBookMe redistributes 10% of quarterly profit to tenured staff
“Basically our logic is, you've got to be employed, you can't be on a disciplinary, and you have to have worked for us for at least a year and a half. We then look at our net profit, excluding any you know, out of sort of extraordinary costs, like foreign excha…”
Bridget Harris Sep 19, 2022 ▶ 16:04 How Bootstrapped YouCanBookMe Hit $5m using team profit sharing as internal motivation
Sep 19, 2022 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Harris: YouCanBookMe Reached Around $5M ARR Using Profit Sharing and Open Salaries
“How we have grown to around five million dollars ARR using profit sharing and open salaries to motivate the team.”
Bridget Harris Sep 19, 2022 ▶ 0:44 How Bootstrapped YouCanBookMe Hit $5m using team profit sharing as internal motivation
Sep 19, 2022 positive
Insight
Harris: Hire at moderate base pay and reward high performance with raises
“Reward performance with high wages, i.e. Hire somebody on a moderate, conservative salary rate. If they do really well for you, by all means double their salary if you want to. Don't do it the other way around. A six figure salary does not necessarily bring in…”
Bridget Harris Sep 19, 2022 ▶ 11:14 How Bootstrapped YouCanBookMe Hit $5m using team profit sharing as internal motivation
May 31, 2023 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
YouCanBook.me reached $5 million ARR with over 20,000 customers
“Now for context, to get that five million, we have over 20,000 customers.”
Bridget Harris May 31, 2023 ▶ 3:40 Fireside chat with Bridget Harris and Alex Theuma - How to take care of business: 5 lessons in bootstrapping to $5m ARR
May 31, 2023
Insight
Founders without a five-year runway should seek venture capital
“If you can't afford a potential five year runway to get up to speed where you're hiring people, you're paying yourself, and you're feeling good about it, then that's the point to take on a financial partner who's gonna give you some of that upfront cash.”
Bridget Harris May 31, 2023 ▶ 4:38 Fireside chat with Bridget Harris and Alex Theuma - How to take care of business: 5 lessons in bootstrapping to $5m ARR
May 31, 2023 neutral
Assertion Supported
Gumroad operates entirely with freelancers instead of direct employees
“There's some incredible models out there now of people who've just decided to not employ anybody directly, and they just go straight to the freelance market and only get freelancers, and they put a you know, Gumroad is based, based on that model.”
Bridget Harris May 31, 2023 ▶ 8:07 Fireside chat with Bridget Harris and Alex Theuma - How to take care of business: 5 lessons in bootstrapping to $5m ARR
May 31, 2023
Insight
Top startup performers grow internally from modest salaries, not expensive hires
“I've never experienced the idea that by going out and paying, you know, a huge salary, I'm gonna get a 10 X person to come in. All my 10 X, if you like, people who work for me now, who are on good salaries, they all started joining the company at fairly modest…”
Bridget Harris May 31, 2023 ▶ 9:21 Fireside chat with Bridget Harris and Alex Theuma - How to take care of business: 5 lessons in bootstrapping to $5m ARR
May 31, 2023
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Harris: YouCanBook.me has never missed payroll in 12 years
“I've never ever not made payroll for the 12 years we've been running the company, and there's only one way to do that, which is financial literacy.”
Bridget Harris May 31, 2023 ▶ 14:15 Fireside chat with Bridget Harris and Alex Theuma - How to take care of business: 5 lessons in bootstrapping to $5m ARR
Feb 4, 2025 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Harris initially rejected Capacity's acquisition outreach
“The first time they contacted me, I said no.”
Bridget Harris Feb 4, 2025 ▶ 8:37 Capacity Acquires $5m ARR Bootstrapped YouCanBookMe To Build AI Support Mega Platform
Feb 4, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Harris: Capacity acquired YouCanBookMe in a 50/50 cash and equity split
“So it was fifty-fifty, 50 cash, 50 equity.”
Bridget Harris Feb 4, 2025 ▶ 26:06 Capacity Acquires $5m ARR Bootstrapped YouCanBookMe To Build AI Support Mega Platform
Feb 4, 2025 positive
Insight
Harris: Bootstrapped founders can accept hybrid M&A deals much more easily
“So for me and Keith as founders, we could take a hybrid offer much more easily than so many people who, as David says, Take on far too much complicated cap table nonsense at the very beginning. And I highly recommend it because as founders, as bootstrap founde…”
Bridget Harris Feb 4, 2025 ▶ 26:33 Capacity Acquires $5m ARR Bootstrapped YouCanBookMe To Build AI Support Mega Platform
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