Missive Reached $2M ARR with Only Three Founding Engineers Doing Support
Raphael Mason · I love these guys. 3 co-Founders bootstrap to $2m in ARR. Beautiful business. · Jul 30, 2022 · at 12:45
Raphael Mason is the co-founder of Missive, an email and team collaboration platform, discussing team size and bootstrapping velocity with Nathan Latka.
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“We actually hired our first employee, like not even a month ago. So everything I'm telling you today is we build it at, we were a tree and then just the three founders. We are all engineers. We are definitely not salespeople. We are engineers and we all do customer support. But yeah, three developers.”
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