Obie Founders Took Zero Salary for Two Years, Scaled to 80K CAD
Chris Buttenham · Obie Growing on Slack marketplace, $25k MRR, Helps Teams Store Information Efficiently · Sep 17, 2020 · at 10:45
Chris Buttenham, founder and CEO of Obie, explains founder compensation history and early financial sacrifices to Nathan Latka.
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“We paid ourselves nothing for the first two years of the company. And then as we started generating revenue, we paid ourselves, I don't know, some poverty level salary, like 30,000 dollars a year Canadian dollars. And then it was 50, and then we got up to like 80”
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