Breaking the first $1 million in revenue is the hardest founder milestone
Adam Sandman · He's the Real Unicorn: Bootstrapped to $10m, Owns 100%, Shares Profits with Team · Jun 28, 2022 · at 10:14
Adam Sandman, founder and CEO of Inflectra, reflects on the operational shifts required when scaling a bootstrapped software business past early revenue thresholds.
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“I say the hardest thing is to break the first million. I think then five is probably the next, but it's that, that I think that breaking the one million mark is the hardest of all, because I think what happens is you have to change everything you're doing.”
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